Sunday i blogged about how making smaller resolutions can maybe help you make resolutions that are easier to stick to. Today, I am blogging about why those weight loss resolutions typically don't stick.
In "Food Addiction: Why Weight Loss Resolutions are Destined to Fail" the author explains the failing phenomenon by categorizing weight gain as an addiction, likening it to cigarettes, other drugs, and even sex.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Most doctors agree that addiction is a disease, not a moral failing, and people are becoming increasingly aware that addictions to drugs, alcohol, and even cigarettes require treatment for the underlying illness, without relying on willpower alone. Yet even as sex addiction makes headlines (thanks largely to speculation about Tiger Woods
), food addiction remains largely ignored, despite, as Jeffrey Fine, Ph.D., points out, it being the largest "quiet" addictive disorder in the U.S.
'Food addiction is one of the least-diagnosed and most easily treated addictions out there,' says Dr. Fine, a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and psychologist with more than 30 years of experience. Marked by obsession with food, eating as means to relieve stress, feeling guilty about overeating, and a host of other symptoms, it causes as much damage as addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Unfortunately, most people try to mask and manage symptoms rather than addressing the underlying addictive disorder, which is why most weight loss resolutions don't work. Food addiction also fuels the American weight loss industry, which raked in approximately $50 billion last year."
In my opinion, the fact that food addiction is such a money-making industry leads me to believe that the forces are against us (maybe the industry really wants us to fail?)
The author then goes on to say that the reason the food addiction is such a tricky one is because we NEED to eat to survive! Isn't that terrible, something we depend on can become so harmful!
Perhaps then a better resolution to make would be to be "HEALTHIER." That way there are less expectations and there is less disappointment if you do not actually drop pounds.
Here is a link to the full article:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/food-addiction-weight-loss-resolutions-destined-fail/