Swedey,
I'm not making any judgements whether or not you are addicted to carbs, but I wanted to share an interesting idea with you.
I decided to give up drinking alcohol on 2011. Why? Because if you replace your references to food with "wine" then I was just like you. I hated myself for always wanting to drink, loved the drinking, and hated myself afterward.
In my exploration of the Internet about this I found the idea of the "addictive voice" or the AVRT technique. In a very small nutshell it teaches you to separate yourself from the little voice inside your head that is telling you that you want to eat all that stuff. "It" wants to eat it but "I" don't want to and "I" don't have to listen to "it"
It sounds simplistic, but I bought the book and read it through and haven't had a drink since 2011 and never will again.
You can take a "crash course" in the topic (free, just a website) here: http://www.rational.org/index.php?id=36
I have read about people using this technique to give up sugar, caffeine, etc. But, as others have commented "you gotta wanna."
The book defines addiction as first wanting to stop a behavior and then having trouble doing so. The power to control your behavior is within yourself. You can do it if you truly want to.
I'm not making any judgements whether or not you are addicted to carbs, but I wanted to share an interesting idea with you.
I decided to give up drinking alcohol on 2011. Why? Because if you replace your references to food with "wine" then I was just like you. I hated myself for always wanting to drink, loved the drinking, and hated myself afterward.
In my exploration of the Internet about this I found the idea of the "addictive voice" or the AVRT technique. In a very small nutshell it teaches you to separate yourself from the little voice inside your head that is telling you that you want to eat all that stuff. "It" wants to eat it but "I" don't want to and "I" don't have to listen to "it"
It sounds simplistic, but I bought the book and read it through and haven't had a drink since 2011 and never will again.
You can take a "crash course" in the topic (free, just a website) here: http://www.rational.org/index.php?id=36
I have read about people using this technique to give up sugar, caffeine, etc. But, as others have commented "you gotta wanna."
The book defines addiction as first wanting to stop a behavior and then having trouble doing so. The power to control your behavior is within yourself. You can do it if you truly want to.
