“When I was in the food and compulsion, I knew on the one level that I could not control my eating and weight and yet on the other, I felt I should be able to. When I failed repeatedly, I would become desperate and hopeless and the feeling of being so powerless would bring me into the food again. At least there I would feel relief, even if it was short term and painful.”
“On February 8, I will be 19 years sober from Food”. “Freedom for me came from surrendering to an abstinent food plan that had no triggers for my brain. The second thing that worked for me was to have daily support and Fellowship. The third was to engulf myself into the therapeutic approach and make the life changes necessary for me to get the personality change that needed to happen for me.”
“It was overcoming being a victim of life, into understanding how I kept myself in the vicious cycle of my addictive mind. It was becoming humbled by my own part in my disease and learning where I could productively use my Willpower and my strengths.”
“There is recovery for sugar and food addicts. No matter how deep you feel you’ve fallen. The recovery is often slow, but it will always happen if you work at it.”

My lifelong battle with food addiction which for most of my life I thought was a weak mind and lack of will power led me to typically weigh between 260-360+ lbs.( at 5’10” for about 25 years) which I was never able to change despite countless $1000’s of dollars I spent on a never ending array of differing diet approaches, doctors, nutritionists, treatment programs,12 step meetings, etc. No matter what I tried I was never consistently successful. Beyond the weight it affected me deeply and I truly thought I was broken and that I’d never be able to resolve the issues. Beyond the weight it made me feel very depressed and was unbelievably hard on myself

In 2018 at a particular low point, I unexpectedly found the right combination help from a coach and nutritionist who really understood food addiction and how to recover. They helped me to discover that I was a food addict not a weak-minded person, helped me identify what my triggering foods and behaviors were in a very thorough way, and helped me to obtain the right food and lifestyle plan which ultimately led me to find the freedom from food for the first time in my life and the weight loss that had always eluded me before. As a result of finding this approach I am naturally down over 180 lbs. from my highest weight and easily maintaining it for years now. following the adoption of this lifestyle and surrender of my trigger foods I have been able to enjoy a peaceful yet enjoyable relationship with food day after day which I could never have imagined to be possible. Food has ceased being my problem one day at a time as long as I don’t take the first bite of my trigger foods or behaviors which is absolutely possible as long as I keep my own recovery first.

For me finding the right help that could truly coach me in the way I needed was vital for my success and if you feel you may be a food addict too, I highly recommend trying this approach with a specialized coach working with food addicts.

Hi my name is Clarissa and I’m a Food Addict. The problem was that for most of my life I didn’t know it. I just always thought that something was wrong with me or that I didn’t have enough will power when it came to how much I ate. I fought daily to control my weight and my obsessive compulsive thinking about food. In my early 20’s I struggled with one eating disorder after another and was plagued by the knowledge that no matter what I did, it was likely this problem would never go away. So everyday I ate with little or no idea how the foods I was eating affected my body or my mind and ultimately everyday I felt like a failure. I had accepted that this was just how life would always be.

Then I was introduced to the concept of Food Addiction and it was like someone finally switched on the lights in my mind. I went to Iceland to participate in an intensive sugar detox and it was in this environment that I realized how the processed, low fat “foods” I had been eating were triggering me to over consume and why I always craved MORE. I learned about the dangers of sugar, how negatively affects all aspects of our overall health, and how it is in absolutely everything we consume today. I had been working in the field of addictions and mental health for years and the concept that certain types of foods (sugar/flour/grains) had the ability to activate the pleasure centre of the brain, exactly like drugs such as cocaine and/or heroin do, was fascinating to me. It was the key to stopping the addictive cycle.

Today I have a SOLUTION and practical strategies to maintain that solution. I have a freedom with real food now that I never thought was possible and I am fortunate enough to get to work with others to help them find this solution too. Food is not your enemy, diets are. When you learn how and what to eat it will merely complement your life not define it.

I have worked alongside the top addiction doctors who practice in the field of Food Addiction to develop this program. Weight loss WILL occur but most importantly my clients report that their biggest achievement from eating this way is the relief they feel when the mind chatter with food STOPS. The goal of this treatment is for you to find peace with food.