From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction
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Renowned therapist, eating disorder specialist and recovering food addict Kay Sheppard has helped countless individuals win their battles over food addiction—people for whom diets, pills and purging have become a way of life. In 1993, her groundbreaking book, Food Addiction: The Body Knows, explained the illness of food addiction from the physiological origins through recovery.
Today, obesity is on the rise. In addition to the 300,000 overweight people in this country, millions more who may not look overweight are unable to control their eating. From the First Bite, offers the latest medical insights into food addiction coupled with time-tested, practical advice.
This book includes compelling personal stories and do’s and don’t's from other recovering and relapsed food addicts, including the author herself. It explains:
how to avoid the physiological and situational triggers that lead to relapse; how to establish a balanced food plan that eliminates cravings; and how to avoid the hidden dangers in cleverly packaged foods.
It also includes a handy Twelve-Step workbook.
Just as Sheppard’s first book broke new ground, her latest work offers a critical first step for food addicts on the road to physical, emotional and spiritual recovery.
————- Could You Be a Food Addict?
Your answers to the following questions may help you identify whether you have a food addiction problem:
Has anyone ever told you that you have a problem with food?
Do you think food is a problem for you?
Do you eat large amounts of high-calorie food in short amounts of time?
Do you eat over your feelings?
Can you stop eating whenever you wish?
Has your eating or weight ever interfered with your jobs, relationships or finances?
How often do you get weighed?
Do you ever judge yourself by the number on your scale?
Do you often eat more than you planned to eat?
Have you hidden food or eaten in secret?
Have you become angry when someone eats food you have put aside for yourself?
Have you ever been anxious about your size, shape or weight?
How many weight-loss programs have you tried?
List all of the ways you have attempted to lose weight.
Do you manipulate ways to be alone so that you can eat privately?
Do your friends and companions overeat or binge eat?
How often do you overeat?
If your answers to these questions concern you, seek guidance. The path to recovery involves recognition, admission and acceptance. Identification of the problem-realizing that something is wrong-leads to recovery. Help can be found in treatment programs, private therapy and in self-help programs.
From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction
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July 21st, 2010 at 11:59 am
I have been following the food plan outlined in this book for over three years with truly miraculous results. Not only am I maintaining a weight loss of over 100 pounds, but my life has changed dramatically, as well.
People tend to read books like this because they want to lose weight (I wanted this too). However, if you follow, not just the food plan, but the entire program of recovery outlined in this book, you will be amazed and delighted by how your life just seems to change for the better! That has been my experience! I have given away every diet book I own, probably 50 books! Diets are not the answer. I found what I need in this book. Try it, you won’t be sorry.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 21st, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Recovery is not an easy journey. Ms. Sheppard’s clear and warm writing style has, for many people, lit the way to the path of recovery.
You will find yourself in these pages. You will rejoice that someone understands what you are going through. You will rebel/bargain/take issue with the food plan, and then (hopefully) you will take the chance and follow it, and your life will be changed forever. With a lot of hard work and soul searching, you can recover.
Note to beginners – you may find Kay’s earlier work “Food Addiction – the Body Knows” to be more helpful and descriptive of the disease. I would recommend “Food Addiction II – From the First Bite” to those already familiar with this program of recovery.
Rating: 4 / 5
July 21st, 2010 at 1:53 pm
My name is Jeanie Smith – Food Addict. I’m 64 years old and have been bulimic most of my life. Nothing has ever worked to help, not even 3 different treatment centers. After the last treatment center a little over 3 years ago, I found Kay Sheppard’s books. I found myself in her books. I finally had an answer if I choose to do what the book said and I did, I desperately wanted to live. Like most people when they read it, I thought it was too restricting, but in reality, being in my active disease was what was restricting. This book and food plan set me free. I thank God everyday for Kay Sheppard’s research. There is a Internet support group too. Just go to Kay’s web site. In conclusion, Kay’s books are the best description of food addiction and recovery as far as this addict is concerned. If you’re tired of all the diets and think you might be addicted to food, read her books. This is not a diet, it’s a recovery.
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Fast forward 3 more years. I’m still following Kay’s food plan. It’s was 6 years in August. I can’t say enough about it. It saved my life and gave me a life. Following the food plan is just routine now. My life as a bulimic is in the past. If you are reading this, please go get Kay’s book and give it a try. Watch a miracle happen – yours.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 21st, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Kay Sheppard’s newest book on food addiction is an easy-to-read yet informative guide to recovery for food addicts. It not only helps us better understand food addiction, but more importantly, how to recover from it. The impact that Kay Sheppard’s books have had on my life is unsurpassed. I can’t recommend them enough.
Rating: 5 / 5
July 21st, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I am a food addict. I have been for most of my 50 years. I have weighted close to 400 lbs. This book is THE BEST book I have ever seen that addresses food addiction. It is very similar to the OA (Overeater’s Anonymous) position that compulsive overeating is a three-fold disease: physical, emotional & spiritual. For me, the physical side is the starting point. Just like the alcoholic, who can drink some things, i.e. water, milk and juice, but nothing containing alcohol; a food addict such as myself can eat some foods but not things containing sugar, wheat or flour. By following this food plan, I have NO CRAVINGS! A true miracle for someone whose life used to revolve around food. Yes, it takes some time to get started, learning to weight and measure, but I have developed a routine now. The food is good, and the food plan is very flexible, based on all the food groups, with no special gimmicks. It is based on healthy basic foods which are better for all of us anyway. I feel better than I ever have, and most important, I am saving my life. I have a disease that is fatal, progressive and incurable. However, by following this food plan, and following the other suggestions in the book (and the OA program) I have the opportunity to live a wonderful life that is happy, joyous and free. I recommend this book to anyone who feels they might have a problem with their eating behaviors. It just could change your life!!
Rating: 5 / 5