Is There Help For Compulsive Overeating?
If anyone had told me I could go a day without misusing food I would have laughed. After years of using food to not feel my or deal with my emotions I had no idea how to cope with life other than to self medicate. I thought I was alone and that no one else did what I did. I was filled with shame, guilt and remorse. I thought of myself as weak willed unable to stick to my guns. I didn’t know that I had an allergy to sugar, wheat and flour. My food addiction began as a child I turned to food as comfort, as I matured my disease grew with me, I needed to do more in order to not feel and incorporated drugs and alcohol my disease continued. I was blessed to get into recovery from drug and alcohol addiction 15 years ago, a year later when I reached my highest weight of 460lbs. I surrender to my food addiction. My life was so small due to how large I had become, I was unable to work and physically unable to function. I had small children and I was so depressed and unhappy I felt there was no h