Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "I'm Nadia and I'm a food addict," the 32-year-old says once the meeting floor is opened up to others. When she moved to Montreal shortly after, there was no FA so she went as far as to move into a nunnery in pursuit of self-improvement. Rather than focus on a lack of willpower, it was explained as a “disease” of food addiction. She figured one FA meeting couldn’t hurt and got hooked by the way her problem was framed. It said: “Are you having trouble controlling the way you’re eating?”īy then, Valeria had “tried it all … psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, weight loss clinics, weight-loss programs, diets, yoga, self-help books, restricting, purging, exercise, you name it, I did it.” She was drawn to FA after seeing a newspaper ad while visiting her sister in the U.K. At one of her first office jobs at a lodge, she stole money from co-workers’ drawers to buy and binge on food. The lack of food in her home eventually spiralled into a full-blown eating disorder when she could finally get her hands on more of it. She says she “used food to medicate the discomfort of her fears, doubt and insecurity.” She didn’t have a lot of friends because she wouldn’t let people close to her for fear of them realizing how bad things were with her. The program’s faithful followers swear by it, regardless of what anyone says. It becomes a problem, Sygo says, “when it starts interfering in your life.” Potential warning signs she listed include people who restrict food aren’t able to eat around others or they may have high anxiety around food. READ MORE: Is food addiction real? Harvard study has experts weighing in Jennifer Sygo, who specializes in disordered eating at Cleveland Clinic Canada, has a hard time with the concept of “food addiction.” She sees it more as emotional eating, which many of us do to different degrees. Elke Sengmueller, who’s based in Toronto, argues restricting foods like carbs “inevitably causes intense preoccupation” and increases cravings for them. In addition to avoiding the ingredients at all costs, the rules state meals are supposed to be “weighed and measured.”Ī couple of registered dietitians Global News spoke to expressed some concerns over the philosophy. The FA book claims food addicts have an “allergy” to flour and sugar. the “Big Book,” adapted from the one used by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). They spend 20 minutes taking turns reading parts of FA’s manifesto a.k.a. The cotton-candy-eating member doesn’t get a chance to explain her slip-up because only those with 90 or more straight days of sugar and flour abstinence are allowed to speak. That message is driven home as the 7 p.m. READ MORE: Sweeteners create cocaine-like addictions, Canadian study finds
Sugar and flour are considered as bad as heroin would be for a recovering drug addict. When Global News asks one self-professed food addict if she misses those staples, she replies: “What I don’t miss is going to bed hating myself.” The two core commandments are that sugar and flour must be completely cut from one’s diet. Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "I pretty much tried everything. The only thing that worked for me is this program," she says. "I can't do this by myself." So what’s the secret?
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It’s essentially a free 90-minute weight loss sermon, sans priest or pews, that’s open to people of all faiths and food afflictions. Roughly 80 per cent of those who show up are women in their 20s to 80s. There are four in B.C., 11 in Alberta and hundreds more in seven other countries around the world. This particular congregation meets three times a week, and is one of 17 weekly meetings held in Ontario. That’s a cardinal sin in this room, which is filled with 60 or so members of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA).
Send this page to someone via email emailĪs a weekly food addicts meeting begins in a small brick church in a yuppie Toronto neighbourhood, one woman leans to the attendee in the row beside her and confesses a forbidden indulgence.
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