The Food Addiction they don't want you to know about

I Gained Weight on Day 7. Here's Why I Didn't Quit. (Food Addiction is REAL)

Connor's Cut | Day 7 | 311.6 lbs | The Addiction Nobody Treats

Day 7. I gained a tenth of a pound. And I did not eat my way through the disappointment.

That is the win today.

This episode is different. This is not a diet show. This is not about macros or meal plans or what time to eat. This is about addiction. Real addiction. The kind that uses the same neural pathways as cocaine, gambling, alcohol, and nicotine. The kind with the same triggers, the same shame, the same relapse cycles, the same compulsive behavior loops.

Except nobody treats it. Nobody funds it. Nobody even calls it what it is.

Food addiction is the hardest addiction on Earth because you cannot quit the substance. You have to eat to survive. Every single day, multiple times a day, you have to interact with the thing that is destroying you. Imagine telling an alcoholic they have to walk into a bar three times a day, take two sips, and stop. That is what food addiction recovery looks like.

In this episode I break down five evidence-based strategies from the best rehab clinics in the world and show how they apply directly to food addiction:

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Catching the thought before it becomes the behavior. Rewiring the sequence of thought, feeling, action. Not willpower. Willpower drains. This is structural change.

2. Motivational Interviewing: Resolving the war between the voice that wants to change and the voice that wants to stay comfortable. Asking the questions that make you face what your life looks like if nothing changes.

3. Environmental Restructuring: Community reinforcement. Redesigning your physical environment to support recovery instead of sabotage it. The food in your house, the routes you drive, the people at your table.

4. Relapse Prevention (Marlatt Model): Mapping high risk situations before they happen. Building response plans for every trigger. Stress, boredom, conflict, celebration. You plan the response before the trigger arrives.

5. Accountability and Community: The 12 step principle. Showing up, telling the truth, listening to others tell their truth. Dissolving shame through shared experience.

The food companies spent billions engineering the bliss point. The exact combination of sugar, salt, fat, and texture that overrides your brain's ability to say stop. They optimized for it. They hired scientists to find it. The purpose of that food is not to nourish you. It is to keep you buying it.

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