Listen to episode 114:
"I was addicted to sugar... Are you?": Clarissa
March 19, 2023
Are you a normal eater, an emotional eater, or a food addict?
Clarissa has a touching history of disordered eating.
In fact, she says that she's a food addict.
The problem was that for most of her life, she didn't know it. Clarissa just always thought that something was wrong with her or that she didn't have enough willpower when it came to how much she ate.
In this episode, Clarissa shares her story about how she fought daily to control her weight and her obsessive compulsive thinking about food.
It was only when Clarissa was introduced to the concept of food addiction that it was like someone finally switched on a light in her mind.
She learned about the dangers of sugar, and how it negatively affects all aspects of our overall health. She learned to eat real whole foods, and not to be scared of healthy fats. Her whole relationship with food completely changed.
Clarissa had been working in the field of addictions and mental health for years, but then she started studying how certain types of foods (sugar/flour/grains) have the ability to activate the pleasure centre of the brain, exactly like hard drugs do.
This was the key to her stopping the addictive cycle.
Now Clarissa teaches that food is not the enemy, diets are. And she's not ashamed to say that she was addicted to processed foods.
In the "Sweet Sobriety" online coaching and community for food addiction, Clarissa helps her clients feel relief when the mind chatter with food stops. The goal is for you to find peace with food, with eating disorders, and with food addiction.
