Is Food Addiction Just a Willpower Issue? No.

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[robertharker]

Great to hear someone talking about food addiction rather than obesity and weight loss. One way I control my weight is to not keep sugar based food around. A few years ago at a stressful time of my life I kept finding my self searching my kitchen for something sweet. Quite often sitting down with a jar of jam and a spoon. It made me realize my addiction to pot and booze was nothing compared to my addiction to sugar. If I don't eat something sweet every day, I find myself obsessing over my next fix. "Its midnight and 7-11 is still open."
Thank you for your talk. It was clear, concise and short. The replacing the word alcohol with food was great.

[officialegemen]

The fact that I know what it is, it's basically opioid addiction, gives me so much power over it. Thank you.

[cinnamongirl]

All addictions are distractions from life. Plain and simple. I speak from experience. The root cause will never be addressed with a drug, however, for some people chemicals may be a starting point.

[brianwade]

I have been fighting obesity for 25 years and only recently decided for myself to begin thinking of the problem as an addiction - like alcoholism or drug addiction. That led to a search which got me here. By minute 4 I felt hope and excitement because I believe the things you are saying are right. Thank you! I will be researching every lead I can find on this approach.

[Dulceria_La_Princesita]

I've eaten nearly 6, 000 kcal today. 1, 800 while watching this video. I hide, as best as I can, these binges which occur several times a week from my wife. It breaks her heart the way I abuse my body. I know I've done irreversible damage. Every time I binge eat I accept that I'm committing a prolonged soft suicide.

[neilwani]

There should be laws against using science to make food that are full of sugar and fat and are addictive. Government needs to regulate how much sugar goes into food. The body was not made to handle all this sugar and other things and it is causing all kinds of health problems. The punishment needs to be jail time for company executives that make foods so unhealthy. And class action law suits against these companies.

[igloozoo]

It is kind of weird that everyone is a bit wired differently when it comes to addictions. I don't understand the alcoholics because Alcohol is just not something that I crave. One drink is basically all I need and I don't crave another. On the other hand, Ice cream and Cookies and Orange Juice are something that I cannot seem to put down. If I have a dozen hagen daz bars in the freezer, I will end up going back until they are all gone within a couple hours. I don't have this problem with fruits and dates. So it isn't solely sugar that is causing the binging. Pornography is another. I have to be vigilant not to watch that on the internet.

[PeterEccles]

This is so obvious once it's said. Great video.

[follower]

Am just a kid and my parents get mad at me for not eating all of the chips or sweets they buy me even though I decline it. I know a diet works because I've done it and looked better than ever and was happier than ever to. But of course I was forced to throw that away to. I swear once I turn 18 I will finally get the desired body I want.

[yeahwhateverokay]

Everything was great until my birthday came around and I thought “I deserve some treats” and some treats became a 3 day eat whatever I can find binge. It’s emotionally so exhausting

[budte]

I am 39 years continuously sober. It took a few years and some initial disbelief that the carb/fat gorging that I have fought for years is in principle no different to the battle I had with alcohol 39 years previous. There was an experiment with rats I think, that gave one group of rats unlimited access to sugar, but no fat. The second group had unlimited access to fat, but no sugar. The third group had a mixture of fat and sugar (cheesecake). The first two groups did stuff themselves, but stopped when they were full and never became obese. The last group, stuffed themselves, but returned repeatedly every few minutes to pick a bit more and became super-obese. It was thought the fat/carb mix worked on the same parts of the brain as cocaine. The Hadza, the last hunter/gatherers in existence today - the men go out and hunt and the women go out and gather. The men are successful once every 7-10 days, the rest of the time they are all relying on the fruit, berries and potassium rich tubers the women gather. No oil/fat, mostly vegan. No heart disease or diabetes.

[nicolekear]

I have PCOS and just found out last year. I have gained 120 pounds in the last couple of years. I LOVE healthy food and eat it frequently, but this insulin resistance is ridiculous and if I don't feed sugar or unhealthy food cravings, I get headaches etc. It's scary. I am thinking of getting gastric sleeve. I am 30, I want to have a child, but I want to make sure I'm at my healthiest again before I even conceive. I want to have control over my health again. I am so close to being pre-diabetic. I'm in pain everyday, even on my better days. I have never felt so unhealthy. It's sad because I used to be 130 pounds 5'11", I was a beautiful woman and my weight has just fucked up my whole perception of myself. I need a change NOW

[TheGhostOfDeath]

I guess food can be very addictive I mean I struggled with being overweight as a young teen at 300lbs but I found a way to keep the weight off and I couldn't be more happier

[jekylljekyllhyde]

The fact that there are people who can literally not eat for weeks & I can't skip even one meal. Seriously, how much willpower should you have even in order to be able to do something like that?

[mrpringle]

Never, smoked, drank, did drugs and been drinking only water for nearly 7 years now. I improved basically everything about my health and hygiene. Except for food it's something you can't avoid. There isn't one simple fix like there is with water. And it's not something you can just avoid like with drugs. They're so many food groups and tempting restaurants that it's a pain to solve. Not to mention even if you do everything right. I still hit plateaus

[Dan-jopy]

Interesting, but shame it uses drug treatment as the comparison given all those interventions suck 🙄. Any addiction is essentially the result of an inability to resolve an underlying issue - hence why psychedelics have an 80%+ success rate. Allowing the brain to reset and reframe the underlying trauma removes the problem. You either reframe the issue and it no longer causes pain that needs treating in a way you can't action, or you find a novel way to action it. Either way the addiction stops.

[anarchoaristocracy]

I clicked because the thumbnail doughnuts looked really good and i kinda thought if i watched the vid there would be more footage of the doughnuts. Where are these doughnuts from? Where did you get the stock photo from?

[geraldlewis]

Slogan= exercise and stop eating Too much unhealthy foods and a little moderation of some junk food s I guess is okay as long as you eat healthy food s and exercise.for years I have memory focus and concentration issues that's causing me to be addicted for some years ago now since I was a kid.

[BartBVanBockstaele]

What I find remarkable is that most all rhese presentations carefully dance around "hunger". There is a big difference between "pleasurable" and "not hungry".

[jasmines.]

I Def feel very uncomfortable when I don't eat most of the time