Randolph Jones and the end of food cravings
Food used to be like drinking an alcoholic beverage to me…..Since I began Induction, those cravings, slowly have gone away. Getting off of Carbs has been like quitting quitting smoking. Now that it’s out of my system, I look at food much differently.
Sincerely,
Randolph Jones
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Dear Randolph,
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about food cravings. I agree 100% with your statement that food, to you, used to be like alcohol to an alcoholic.
Before I found the Atkins Program, my food cravings literally controlled my thoughts and actions each and every day of my life, which invariably led to stuffing my face with food, often to the point the point of nausea. After gorging myself on food, Id feel so much self-loathing and yet I felt so helpless and powerless to control my daily binges. And, to add insult to injury, I was never satisfied for long, before my overwhelming food cravings, and my desire to binge, returned as strong and overpowering as ever. I was helpless to control this destructive cycle of bingeing and self-loathing.
I didn’t realize, at the time, that an addiction to carbohydrates was causing my food binges and NOT a moral weakness or simply a lack of self-control. The FACT is I DID have an addiction to carbohydrates which fueled my food cravings and made me powerless to control my bingeing behavior. I was just like the active alcoholic who is powerless to control his alcoholic binges.
When I began to follow the Atkins food program, two months ago, for the first time in my life, I was set free from my obsession with food and thinking about where Id get my next fix of carbohydrates from. For the first time in my life, with the help of the Atkins Program, food has been put in its proper place, for what it is and should always be; a source of nourishment and enjoyment, not a tool for physical abuse and self-destruction.
Thanks for listening.
Judy Gibson in
New Hampshire