Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution

The International School For Food Addiction Counseling And Treatment (The INFACT School) brings you the podcast, Food Addiction: The Problem And The Solution which explores the ubiquitous problems of food addiction and presents the solution. The school, founded by director Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir MSc, is the world’s first and only sugar/food addiction counseling training with U.S. and European food addiction counselor certifications. infactschool.com Host, Susan Branscome, a recovered food addict, interviews guests who are professionals and counselors focused on the disease of food addiction, as well as individuals who have successfully recovered from food addiction. The podcast will resonate with food addicts, those dieting unsuccessfully, those desperate to learn more about food addiction and recover, as well as professionals treating and counseling clients with food addiction and medical practitioners treating patients suffering from obesity and obesity-related illnesses and issues. Subscribe to Food Addiction: The Problem and The Solution wherever you get your podcasts!

Episodes

Sugar is Toxic and is NOT A Food, It Is an Additive to Foods

September 26, 2023 • 55 mins

Dr. Robert Lustig has a degree from MIT, a medical degree from Cornell University and a law degree from U.C. Hastings. He is bold in his messaging: Our metabolic health as a nation has been negatively affected by our nutrition---We are not eating real foods, whole foods. Sugar is added to ultra-processed foods and it is making us sicker. 75 percent of our health care costs in the U.S. are due to our poor metabolic health which i...

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I Understand My Food Addiction is a Disease

September 12, 2023 • 52 mins

Erin K, a recovered food addict was exposed to addiction and 12-step recovery as a child which she believes helped her realize that her food addiction could be alleviated through 12-step recovery work. She knew early on that she did not use food for nourishment, but rather to soothe her anxiety and to feel normal. Erin’s powerlessness and her compulsive behaviors around food drove her life. It was not until she surrendered to her ...

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Acceptance is Not Approval and Powerlessness is Not Helplessness

August 29, 2023 • 40 mins

H. Theresa Wright, MS, RD, LDN, is the Founder and Director of Renaissance Nutrition Center, in Pennsylvania where she has developed programs to help people develop the skills to make lifestyle changes that lead to freedom from food addiction and encourage a “sane approach” to eating and living. Website: Sane Food a nutrition therapist registered and licensed dietitian and nutritionist, for more than 36 years, Theresa has helped p...

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Sugar Addiction is Real….And It’s Not Your Fault

August 15, 2023 • 57 mins

Dr. Nicole Avena is a research neuroscientist, a pioneer, and a world-renowned expert in the field of nutrition, diet, and food addiction. She received her Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University and is uniquely qualified to address the biology of food addiction as well as its psychological aspects. In her books, Why Diets Fail (Because You're Addicted to Sugar) and Hedonic Eating: How the Pleasure of Food Af...

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I Never Imagined How Free Life Could Be

August 1, 2023 • 52 mins

Sonja B. has been abstinent and sober from sugar, wheat, processed foods and compulsive food behaviors including volume eating, and nighttime binges, having maintained a 100-pound weight release for 18 years after hitting bottom in 2005. She had early evidence that she used food differently than others as a child and teenager and carried 75 pounds of extra weight in high school. Sonja went into treatment for alcohol addiction and b...

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We Get To Learn a New Way of Living

July 18, 2023 • 49 mins

Having struggled personally with food addiction, Amanda Leith entered a food addiction recovery program of the company she ultimately purchased and now leads, Shift, Recovery By Acorn, https://foodaddiction.com/. At Shift, Recovery By Acorn Amanda and her staff help clients struggling with food addiction to find physical abstinence and address underlying issues which produce life-changing results and freedom from food obsession. Am...

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I Did Not Think I Was Lovable, Today I Know I Am

July 4, 2023 • 51 mins

Dee C. is a recovered food addict having maintained abstinence from sugar and excessive food consumption for 37 years and keeping off 100 pounds of extra weight. We discuss the shame and secrecy surrounding the use of food to cope with our lives. After many failed attempts at dieting, Dee talks about the misery of not being able to control food on her own and found the solution to her food addiction in recovery. She believes when ...

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The Addict Mind Will Always Say, “It’s Not That Bad”

June 20, 2023 • 52 mins

Dr. Vera Tarman is the Medical Director of Renascent, one of Canada’s largest treatment centers for substance abuse where she works as an addiction specialist. Dr. Tarman cites the statistic in her book, Food Junkies: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that by the year 2030, 84% of the U.S. population will be overweight and 42 % will be obese. After recovering from food addiction herself by maintai...

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It Is Possible to Have a Life Free of Food Addiction

June 6, 2023 • 55 mins

Mary F. has maintained a nearly 200-pound weight release for 31 years as she has recovered from food addiction. As an overweight child and teenager, she endured ridicule and verbal abuse. The shame associated with not being able to control her eating made her miserable and suicidal. Mary talks about the powerlessness to stop eating once she started, and she discusses the secrecy around her addiction. We address not only physical r...

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Food Addiction is an Attempt to Avoid Legitimate Suffering

May 23, 2023 • 63 mins

Individuals can be predisposed to addiction through genetics says Dr. Marty Lerner, head of Milestones in Recovery https://www.milestonesprogram.org/ In his book, A Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery, Defining the Problem—Finding the Solution, he outlines the nature of the disease of food addiction and how to recover. Dr. Lerner talks about the “perfect storm”, a person being an addict and seeking brain pleasure-center hits of dop...

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There Is Treatment For Food Addiction

May 9, 2023 • 41 mins

Anna Maria S., a recovered food addict, was a child of alcoholic parents. Her childhood was one characterized by instability and sexual abuse. Though she was not aware of the sexual abuse until later in life, once she acknowledged the abuse and processed it, she was able to deal with it. She began to cope with life stress by using food as a solution early at the age of 7. After many failed diets Anna Maria was desperate and weig...

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Food Addiction is a Brain Disease

April 25, 2023 • 43 mins

Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir is a pioneer in the field of food addiction treatment and recovery. Motivated to continue to get the message out that food addicts cannot control their eating and body weight through diets and exercise alone, she began the Food Addiction podcast. Esther was personally battling food addiction for most of her adult life, carrying 130 lbs. of too much weight. She discovered the solution to her problem in re...

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April 22, 2023 • 53 secs

The ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) has found Addiction to be a brain disease affecting a person’s physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being and that recovery from the disease is possible through treatment in recovery centers and 12-step programs or similar support. Currently, there is overwhelming evidence and science for food addiction as a substance use disorder. Podcast listeners would include those wh...

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Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution

Episodes

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Acceptance is Not Approval and Powerlessness is Not Helplessness

Sugar Addiction is Real….And It’s Not Your Fault

I Never Imagined How Free Life Could Be

We Get To Learn a New Way of Living

I Did Not Think I Was Lovable, Today I Know I Am

The Addict Mind Will Always Say, “It’s Not That Bad”

It Is Possible to Have a Life Free of Food Addiction

Food Addiction is an Attempt to Avoid Legitimate Suffering

There Is Treatment For Food Addiction

Food Addiction is a Brain Disease

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