Cambridge Weight Plan- Week 2 over 1 stone lost!!

Weight Loss on the Cambridge Weight Plan. - week 2 day 17 - update on weight loss and a look at cravings, and fat addiction. Research undertaken in 2010 shows cocane and heroin like addcition to fatty foods in rats. As far as I am concerned there is much scope to believe this is a physiological feasilbility in humans too. My own experience of additction to nictotine is every much as hard to overcome as heroin or cocaine has been for the many heroin and cociane users I ever counselled. The dopamine ( pleasure centres in the brain ) get used to the substance that gives it pleasure ie: cocaine, heroin or fatty foods and sweet tasting carbohydrates. This pleasure becomes harder to achieve on its own and as the article in the link states, we become more and more in need of the substance - drug / fatty food etc to feel the same pleasure, or even, feel 'normal'. From what I understand as a previous drugs worker, is that the psychological addiction is the hardest to beat after the physiologocal detox from heroin for example. After that the use of will power, group therapy one to one counselling and other techniques help the recovering addict to veer away from the sources and associations he / she had to the drug and replace the drug with commnity based activities to aid re-integration into the community.

All these things deal inherently with self esteem and the use of support groups, peer support and family help. The Cambridge Weight Plan offers these elements too in the forum, the one to one counselling / consultant weigh in's and chats and advice and engendering the support of family. Coupling this with 'positive associations with the new food, new Health gained, new opportunities, new mobility gained through this healthy lifestyle change, you can start to see how addiction to fatty food /and sweet carbohydrates can be overcome.

The first step ( for me ) at least was recognising that something I had been doing WAS ADDICTIVE.. and that it wasn't my fault, but part of a larger economic drive to keep paying customers buying the processed food we had all been previously using. Everything from sauces to add to our chicken and pasta, £1.00 cooked lasagana's for a quick buy and microwave dinner and everything else in between!! My whole outlook on food has changed and is becoming, evolving into something that I will need to develop as a support tool for fighting ANY addction I may have had to fatty food, sweet carbohydrates and any processed foods. I am becoming aware in such a bigger sense of the word. I am aware of the impact this has had on me and I 'FEEL' the 'addict' that I was. I recognise, undertsand and can 'taste' the addict' that I was with one momentary smell of a doughnut...... and there it was chemically triggering my addiction and then my fighting it with a moment or strength. I wish you all well in your fight too X - please read on to see the FAT ADDICTION ARTICLE :
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/28/fatty.foods.brain/index.html

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[Matoto]

well done !