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The other day I felt as if I could not stop eating.  It was the cookies, the candy, the pizza and anything else I could get my hands on.  I was binge eating and I knew I was, and yet I could not stop myself from the simple act of eating.  I was eating non-stop and was powerless to stop myself.  Knowing that I really want to lose weight it made me wonder what my problem is really all about.  I have watched Jillian Michaels on The Biggest Loser counsel enough players to know that THEY all had issues that they needed to deal with in order to lose weight.  In my wildest dreams and over the course of seven seasons, I never really thought I had a problem.  It was not until I tried a new weight loss product called Sensa, which is suppose to help control how much a person eats.

I like Sensa and I know that it is working for me because I now pay more attention to the fact that I am eating when I am no longer hungry.  I am not here to extol the virtues of Sensa, I am here to lay out the fact that I now realize that I have difficulty stopping to eat when I am full.  I know now that being full is no excuse for me to stop shoveling food into my mouth and for the first time it has made me realize that I am an emotional eater.  I know that I have little self-control when it comes to putting down the fork during a meal.  I now, for the first time in my life realize that the reason I suffer from being overweight is because I have the same type of issues that Jillian Michael’s speaks about.

Now that I can make the statement that I have emotional eating issues I know that something needs to be done.  I now know it is not because I eat the wrong foods, it is not because I like pizza.  I now realize that I just like to eat.  I have used food as a form of entertainment, as a way to pass the time while sitting in front ot the television.  I know now that I need to break the chains of this addiction.

You may say that I have become aware that I am a food addict.  Me being a Internet type of person I typed in “food Addict” on Google and was given the following link: http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/faq.htm#plan

That link provides a path to a free organization that has a fair amount of stuff to read.  What really caught my eye was the phone conferences that are free and all you do is call and you are in a meeting with others?  No cost, no fees, just help.  I am new to this site, but I will be checking it out.  Maybe I will see you out there one day soon.

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