If we apply insights into this addiction process, we can arrive at some effective strategies to cope with cravings and compulsive eating. Life is not always a neat, rational affair. Any effort to control eating and drinking behaviors pushes against many powerful forces that resist change. Some of these forces are internal body workings. Other forces are external circumstances, habits, customs, and addictions.
Irrational elements enter into the equation and way-lay the best laid plans.
Among our patients, there is a consensus that eating-control is difficult to achieve, even when wrong food choices involve serious illness. The consensus is also that some foods trigger compulsive eating, uncontrollable by ordinary acts of consciousness. Must Be Resolved Symptoms are an expression of dysfunction and must be resolved early in the stages of diet revision. We are convinced that food allergy is an important problem both in causing illness but also in causing the appetite control system to malfunction. Motivation-Support Many schemes have been used to motivate people to change their diet.