You can develop a healthy lifestyle by doing the following:

Compulsive Eating Program Check List

1. Buy nutritious foods.

2. Know the triggers and the weaknesses and have a plan to deal with them.

3. Decide on an exercise program.

4. Write your reasons for quitting.

5. Take steps to make first few, hassle-free days .

6. Share your intention with a friend.

7. Have quiet times to strengthen your resolve.

Making A Daily Journal

In your journal, write the lessons you have learned, the good that you do, the good that happens to you, any insights, your successes, and your mistakes. Consider each day then review to see how you are doing. Each day, encourage yourself with your successes and bring the mistakes into perspective. Observe patterns and look for ways to change those patterns. Recovery is not a straight line process. If you were to chart your progress, it would look like the graph of the stock market. Just when you think you are doing well, the graph takes a dip. So expect it. Writing in a journal will give you a better perspective in life. It helps you look at a bigger picture and see how you are getting there, one step at a time. It will remind you of all the little things you have accomplished.

You can reduce compulsive eating by following a few helpful tips.

Did you notice that the first four cookies at the top of the package taste really good, but the ones at the bottom, 24 cookies later, are sickening? Taste is deadened by overeating hunger. The hungrier you are the better food tastes. The more stuffed you become, the worse food tastes. and is stimulated by

Most people quit on a diet program because they feel deprived. You need to enjoy eating healthily. Hunger greatly increases enjoyment. Take a chance. Face the ugly giant of hunger. You will be well rewarded. When the flavor and enjoyment of food is enhanced by hunger, your brain is getting the dopamine high and forming attachments to healthy foods.

Many who follow this program have felt guilty because of the intense pleasure and health that they are experiencing. They felt that it wasn’t fair to be living in such an exuberant state while the rest of the world suffered. If you want to decrease the amount of pleasure normal world of eating. It is designed to reduce dopamine levels to almost nonexistence. you are receiving from food, we have laid out a 12-step process to return you safely to the

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 1:
Eat fast so you do not get to taste the food. Chew no more than three times.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 2:
Do not prepare delicious meals. Try to eat standing up eating hand-to-mouth out of the fridge or cupboard.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 3:
Eat stressed out. Try eating while driving a car. If you are too relaxed, your stomach will be able to secrete digestive juices. Eat while worrying about a problem. If you do not have any problems, ask your co-workers if they have any problems for you to worry about.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 4:
Eat while distracted. Open bills, watch TV, do homework. Mentally, be somewhere else. If you have no distractions, just stare blankly into space.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 5:
Eat while feeling guilty about eating too much. Remind yourself that you are a fat failure. Try to stare at your excess fat as you eat and imagine it growing. Guilt is great at reducing motivation.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 6:
Eat when you are not hungry so the taste buds are dulled.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 7:
Eat super-salty, sugar-filled foods to numb your taste buds so the natural, delicate flavors of fruits and vegetables will be powerless to stimulate any taste reaction.

Reduce Compulsive Eating Tip 8:
Increase spoon and fork speed to feed the mouth as fast as possible. This greatly reduces enjoyment. Some people find using their hands is the quickest way.

If you can eat this way, you will receive no satisfaction from eating. There are two small problems associated with our Dopamine Reduction Guide: the problems with dieting and its poor health return. The end result is an obese, diseased, unmotivated individual. The good part is that you have lots of company.

Biblical Perspective

Being miserable and unhealthy is not what God intended. When God created Adam, he wasn’t just practicing. The human body is the most amazing creation on earth. Nothing on earth can compare in its complexity. Yet, we treat our bodies like used cars. After years of abuse, it finally breaks down. God intended us to experience health, joy and peace. He wants our heart to burst with thankfulness, not high blood pressure. He wants us to live in freedom. He wants us to enjoy all the good things He has created. Wholesome pleasure is His gift to us.

Some drink to feel good and others eat. Some use pills and others eat. Food can be used to change feeling, a way of self-medicating.

Drugs hijack the natural reward system of humans. Smoking a joint feels like the relaxation similar to two hours in the gym. Heroin gives a pleasure similar to “runners high,” the euphoric state experienced during long distance running. But, like all mood-altering drugs, the pleasure is stolen. It has not been gained honestly through effort, achievement or challenge.

Processed food hijacks the taste buds, stealing pleasure without giving nutrition. In nature, foods that taste good are good for us. Sweetness is an indicator of calories. Saltiness is an indicator of mineral content. A bittersweet taste, like lemon, is a sign of cleansing acids and vitamins. We like food with fats and oils because they supply calories and essential fatty acids. Natural oils and fats are high in calories and fat-soluble vitamins. Healthy food has a wholesome taste, a pleasure intended to reinforce healthy behavior.

Food as a Security Blanket

Food can be used to medicate our feelings. Its pleasure gives a predictable lift. When we feel cranky, tired or lonely, food offers comfort, a comfort on which we can depend, a comfort that brings peace in an emotional storm. However, the reliance on food or any substance to feel better forms dependence.
The pleasure offered by mood-altering drugs and food can easily become a security blanket, insulating us from a harsh world. The pleasure becomes an emotional crutch that makes us weaker by leaning on it. Each time we use it, natural emotional responses deteriorate, and the addict becomes emotionally dependent on the pleasure to control mood.

When we are dependent on a chemical or food to feel good, our self-worth is eroded. We are no longer in control. We are dependent. An addict never feels good about needing a drug. There is a feeling of being powerless that destroys self-esteem.
Every time we are tired, upset or frustrated and use food to feel good, that behavior is being etched deeply into our neuropathways. Whether it be eating potato chips, gambling, sexual perversion, watching horror movies, or healthy activities like exercise or playing an instrument, the pleasure is creating triggers to repeat that behavior. Every time you enjoy a food that is unhealthy, use a mood-altering drug, engage in a perverse fantasy or enjoy being lazy, you are creating triggers. Triggers activate emotions, and become powerful urges to repeat that behavior.

After a lifetime’s worth of indulgent triggers and twisted behaviors, we are out of control. Tidal waves crash upon the shore of our soul. There is no peace. The storm is relentless and the pain is endless. Hope is darkened. Only a glimmer remains. But it is enough to see.

Place a huge CAUTION sign over your pleasures. Choose your pleasures with great care. The pleasure of dopamine can move us forward towards a healthy, fulfilling life or endless indulgence. Through discipline, we can receive dopamine’s pleasure from healthy activities and actions. We can feel good about doing the right thing while enjoying the benefits of a clear conscience and a healthy body.
Through discipline, you can control your neurotransmitters. Imagine being able to create nice, warm feelings … a “neurotransmitter high” without harsh drugs or side effects — just warm, dopamine-fuzzy feelings. Bet you’d be one happy person. In a few chapters you are about to discover how. We call it the Dopamine Diet Plan.
You can master our Cravings Defense System. When emotional and physical cravings rise up like a tag team punching from both sides you can hit back with a few uppercuts. Take no more beatings from Mr. Bigã. Be the aggressor. Fight back. Chase those cravings away with a scowl. Flex some muscles. Show no mercy. Take no prisoners. This is war!