Tag Archives: addiction

the two state mind theory

March 31, 2010 – 6:34 pm

I meant to write about this days ago – honestly, the energy is just sucked out of me lately. Or so it seems to me at any rate. It seems that people around the net are writing about things that I need to hear. Steve Aitchison wrote about being fat and the “Two State Mind [...]

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when it’s really, really a problem

March 6, 2010 – 7:39 pm

When last we spoke we were focusing on what I decided to call “normal excess.” It can be really hard, especially from inside the problem, to really differentiate what is “normal” versus what is a problem behavior. There comes a time, however, that the problem behavior is clear and when you look at it honestly, [...]

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February 6, 2010 – 2:35 pm

In my food and addiction series, I’m trying to examine, consider and write about the issues in a more or less pragmatic manner. But things come up. While I’m trying to understand and really take a close look at how compulsive eating mirrors addiction (at the least) I am also living it. I am in [...]

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normal excess versus food abuse

January 23, 2010 – 2:41 pm

This has been a difficult topic. There seems to be a clear, yet ill defined gray area between what is normal and what is abuse. You could, back to our alcohol example, characterize any over-use of alcohol as abusive drinking and some people would do so. I see a subsection of over-use as essentially normal [...]

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so what is normal?

December 10, 2009 – 5:12 pm

I’ve had this fantasy for years of being, or becoming, a normal eater. What does that mean? It always seems to me that “normal” people don’t obsess about everything they eat or don’t eat. They don’t have lists of things they aren’t allowed to buy because they’re afraid if they have that bag of chips [...]

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disclaimer

December 8, 2009 – 12:33 pm

I said the other day that I have been musing about the similarities and differences in food addiction and other addictions. I need to get started writing these posts but I need to write a disclaimer and explain a few things first. I know how I write. When I get on a soapbox I tend [...]

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