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“Most frequently, food addicts experience the thought that they have to eat or that certain feelings will be unbearable without food. It is always good to remember that no one has yet starved to death between meals and that feeling any particular”
― Phil Werdell, Food Plans for Food Addiction Recovery: A Physical and Spiritual Tool

“One important caveat: it is important for long-term recovery that the approach to food abstinence be aligned with the diagnosis and treatment of addiction as a whole. Thus while this second approach to abstinent eating based on learning—we might call it the introspective method—is often ideal for emotional eaters, it can be a set up for failure for food addicts. Food addiction is progressive, and the food addict becomes progressively unable to distinguish the true from the false. Not only do food addicts develop false starving followed by false thinking and finally a false sense of self, they become powerless to challenge these falsehoods by themselves. As a result, an approach to abstinence and recovery which relies on subjective individual discernment alone is almost always doomed to failure. On the other hand, if the food addict is helped to”
― Phil Werdell, Food Plans for Food Addiction Recovery: A Physical and Spiritual Tool