Food for thought: How to manage a food addiction

Experts Connect with HelpMeSara

Sara Dimerman in conversation with Registered Social Worker Clarissa Kennedy. Over the course of this episode you will learn more about:

• What a food addiction means
• Whether or not it differs from other addictions, such as to alcohol or gambling, for example
• Whether or not it is recognized as an addiction in diagnostic manuals that mental health professionals refer to
• If food addiction falls under the same category as an eating disorder and how it differs from other eating disorders such as binge eating
• Whether or not some people might be more vulnerable when it comes to developing an addiction to food and why
• Some signs that one might be grappling with a food addiction
• How to manage a food addiction
• Some of the ways in which food addiction is treated
• What special training someone with an eating addiction should look for in a therapist when they are seeking help

Resources:

• The Hunger-Satiety Scale
• Food Addiction Institute
• Sugar-Free For Life Support: I'm Sweet Enough
• Sugarbomb in your Brain
• Sugar and Carbs Anonymous (SCAA)
• (Molly) Sugar Sober Support Group Fridays at 1pm EST
• Hunger Scale
• Hunger Gauge