💥Today’s CHEATCODE: Food Addiction!
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🤤This is an addiction to junk food and controversially comparable to drug addiction.
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🍭Processed junk foods have a powerful effect on the reward centers of the brain. These effects are caused by brain neurotransmitters like dopamine.
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🍗The most problematic foods include typical junk foods like candy, sugary soda, and high fat fried foods.
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🧬Food addiction is not caused by a lack of willpower but due to a dopamine signal that affects the biochemistry of the brain.
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🍕The main symptoms of food addiction include craving and binging on unhealthy foods without being hungry and an inability to resist the urge to eat these foods.
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🍟Food addiction increases the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes and low self-esteem.
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🍔To overcome food addiction you need to eliminate certain foods.
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🤓First write down the pros and cons to help make the decision.
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💕Pros: losing weight, looking better, living longer, having more energy, and feeling better every day.
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🤷🏼♀️Cons: not being able to eat ice cream with family, no cookies during the holiday season, and having to explain food choices.
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📝Make a list of trigger foods, eliminate them, avoid them and know what you are going to instead. 🍎Like sweet fruits instead of candy, crunchy veggies instead of chips.
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💗Try something new! There are so many tasty foods out there that are better for you.
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❤️Substitute an unhealthy addiction with a healthy obsession. I went from drinking alcohol to jogging!😁
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🥓What are your favorite junk foods? What can you start to eat instead? 🏃♀️What can you do when bored instead of eatting?
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