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Six million Americans suffer with undiagnosed diabetes. These walking time bombs don't even comprehend they've got a serious disease until it causes severe problems. Since a staggering ninety percent of diabetics are fat, we can connect the syndrome and fascination with a number of foods.

According to Kay Shepherd, a pioneer in the topic of food addiction, there is a biochemical situation in the body that creates a physiological longing for certain foods. For the most part these are simple carbohydrates, sweeteners, fats and processed foods. These foods seem to affect the same addictive brain pathways as alcohol and drugs.

Take a look at what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association classifies as an addiction and see if it applies to the excess use of food:

* Tolerance: The user needs increasing amounts of the stuff over time to get
the same outcome
* Withdrawal: If the stuff is stopped there are bodily and or mental symptoms.
* Inadvertent overuse of the substance.
* Persistent attempts to have power over, cut back, or discontinue the use of the substance have been
ineffective.
* Preoccupation with the substance: Rituals in obtaining, using, and recovering from the
use of it.
* Reduced communal, occupational or recreational activities in order to “use”.
* Continued use of substance in spite of persistent physical or mental problems from it

What portion of this do we not understand about food and its abuse? Regardless of dire physical cost, many failed diets, the humiliation and shame associated with over-eating behavior, the preoccupation with food continues.

What are rational solutions that work?

Here is what NEEDS to occur in order to annul the effects of diabetes and obesity:

* Attain and maintain reasonable body weight
* Make sensible food choices.
* Lower sodium and alcohol ingestion.
* Be physically active each day.

I only have to look around me to notice that doing these four things is not effortless or obesity would not be our number one public health problem. If this were effortless obese people would be doing these things and they would slim down.

In view of the fact that good fitness is not happening in numerous people’s lives, we have to recognize the underlying problems in order to understand their powerlessness over detrimental behaviors. Here is the mental health problem full blown!

If we know something is destructive, why continue to do it? Ask any of us who have tried to quit smoking, stay on a low-fat diet, break our dependence to soft drinks, caffeine, or other behaviors or substances. When a behavior is constant it requires more than an attempt to rein in.

Here are a few suggestions on how to get started:
* Educate yourself about the problem and the solution.
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* Make a pledge to yourself. In other words, Resolve to change.
* Set a day to get started. Notice I said get started.
>>In other terminology to start taking some action.

In my situation, as soon as I finally made a choice to let go of my nicotine compulsion l knew better than to believe I could just get up one day and stop! So I prepared a plan. I bought a couple of stop smoking books and I talked to friends about how to find other people who had quit that I could speak to regarding how they did it.

A a sure way to failure when you're learning to manage any out of control behavior is to think you can step up and stop doing it without any homework of the mind. We need only to bear in mind the many “Monday morning diets” to recognize this is valid. Think ahead of what might cause you to be unsuccessful so you are prepared.

* Find a support group particular to your trouble. AA is for drinking, there's EA (eaters anonymous) for over eating, I went to smokers anonymous. There is much to learn from a 12-step model such as AA. One of their great sayings is “I get drunk, we stay sober”. By no means try and battle an addiction alone. You are likely to be unsuccessful if you have the “I can do this by myself. I don’t need anyone” mind-set.

* See the big picture. Do not get hung up on the day by day figure on the scale. It will discourage you. The big picture is about reclaiming your body and being healthy. Stay focused on the true goal.

* Get counseling to work all the way through the reasons you eat in the first place and to learn the knack of loving yourself … yes and that includes your body!

* Above all, recognize ahead of time that you will revert. Be prepared to not slide completely back into your deep-rooted actions by beating yourself up. As an alternative use the event to learn what you need to do next.

Though anyone who has ever battled an obsession can connect to eating as one, we initially have to label it what it is before we can crack it. Understanding it really isn’t only about the food is a primary phase.

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