Food Addiction - Paperback

by Konrad Van Staden (Author)

If you feel addicted to food and ashamed of it, willpower was never the missing ingredient.
Food Addiction begins from what actually happens in the brain and the body, and from a premise with nothing to do with moral failure: what looks like weakness is almost always a wound, and what looks like failure is almost always the brain doing exactly what it learnt to do.
Inside, you will find:

• the hijacked brain, and the evidence for food addiction: reward dysfunction, cravings, tolerance, relapse
• the food noise, and the weight that never shows on the scale
• the shadow at the table, and the loneliness of the struggle
• a compassionate framework and a practical path to freedom

This book is for you if you have felt powerless around food and been told it was your own fault.
You will find no meal plan here, and no shaming into another round of self-discipline.
Written by Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden, drawing on more than two decades of clinical practice. Book Three of The Psychology of Weight Loss Series.