“They might occasionally over-indulge,” Hazel says. The differences between food addicts and non-addicts are significant, they explain. She was, she says, “very bulimic in my thinking.” When she first heard that food addiction was a disease of fear, doubt and insecurity, she thought, “Huh.
She'd starve, then binge, then exercise manically. Growing up in Santa Monica, she had “a million friends,” but would go through phases in which she'd cancel on them at the last minute to stay home and eat instead. I wanted to be an actress, a dancer, a singer. People always say to us, 'Have willpower.' But we take our will and surrender it to a higher power.”Įating was great. “It doesn't mean that I'm not a strong person. “I'd need to eat to take care of the thing that eating did to me.” “It was broken promise after broken promise.”įeeling bad, she'd eat to ease the pain. “But by 11 o'clock, I'd be right back into it.” She sighs. Embarrassed, she'd swear off food, swear that come Monday, she'd start anew.
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She'd eat until she was so full that she had to unbutton her pants at the table. She ate often, in large quantities and quickly. You've heard of blackout drinkers? Morgan was a blackout eater. She talked about food in the way that I used food, I ate food, I hunted down food,” she says. “The bummer, or what seemed like a bummer at the time, was that she was speaking my language. Then, when she was 24, she met someone who was in Food Addicts Anonymous. By her 20s, the cycle of weight loss and gain was well-entrenched. With her father in the restaurant business, food was an inescapable part of her life. At 7, she started playing sports, lost weight, got praised, felt better, gained it back and felt worse. “Like a drug addict? I'm not one of those people.”īut even as a child, she was heavy, she says in a weary voice. “I was offended by the term,” Morgan admits. That there is a disease called “food addiction” was once a revelation. “But she has very small bones,” Morgan finishes. Hazel now weighs in at a reedy 100 pounds. In those years of “sobriety,” Morgan lost 75 pounds. Lithe as a pair of saplings, they have not eaten flour or sugar for 17 and 11 years, respectively. Morgan is a stylish, 42-year-old real estate agent, and Hazel a soft-spoken, 50-year-old executive assistant. Until then, they are killing time at a nearby Corner Bakery amidst the maple pecan bars and sticky cinnamon buns, deep in the belly of the beast. Morgan and Hazel, whose names have been changed at their request, are waiting for the support group's monthly meeting to begin, an hour from now, at a church in Westwood. FAA suggests that its members eat a variety of foods at specified intervals and in set proportions and keep track of what they eat.On a warm spring evening, two members of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous are contemplating what it is like not to contemplate food all the time. All forms of wheat and flour, including flours not made from wheat, are also restricted. All sugars, sugar substitutes, and artificial sweeteners are restricted by the plan. The organization has a suggested food plan that calls for abstinence from sugar, flour, and wheat. The organization has meetings in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Norway, Sweden and Ireland.įAA holds that some people are addicted to certain foods and must abstain from them like other twelve-step programs, FAA members believe that help from a higher power is necessary for them to avoid the substances they crave.
History and description įood Addicts Anonymous was founded in 1987 in West Palm Beach, Florida, by a founder who calls herself "Judith C." By 2007 there were over 150 weekly meetings around the world in addition to phone and online meetings.
It is for people with food addictions and is based on the premise that some people are addicted to refined high- carbohydrate foods and need to abstain from those foods in order to avoid overconsumption. Mutual-help addiction recovery twelve-step programįood Addicts Anonymous ( FAA) is a twelve-step program founded in 1987 that is patterned after the Alcoholics Anonymous program. Not to be confused with Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous.
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