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Food Addiction: The "Evil Salesman"
Switching from Other Addictions to Food
Why Food Addiction Is Deadlier Than Drinking
Food Wars: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Food Addicts
Links for Compulsive Eaters
Explaining the Philosophy
Relapse Articles
Fighting Relapse from Food Addiction
Recovery from Food Addiction is Hard
Powerlessness and Food Addiction
Getting honest with the food addiction
Willingness and Food Addiction
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12 Step Recovery vs. 'Dieting With Group Support'
Hugging Ourselves to Death
It's Not About the Weight, but...
Overeaters Anonymous and Abstinence
Those Strange Mental Blank Spots
Looking for the Abstinence Fairy
The "G" Word
The Books
Before The First Compulsive Bite
About the Book
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The Philosophy of the Book
Clearing the Recovery Palate
Before You Take The First Bite
Inside the disease – teasing apart the threads
Talking to the threads of your disease
Moving Forward
Aspect #1: Commitment to Action
Aspect #2: Getting in touch with your values
Aspect #3: Acceptance of the disease
Aspect #4: Becoming the Observer
Aspect #5: Defusion – A thought is not an action
Aspect #6: Mindfulness – Pausing to Examine
Wrapping Up: Putting this plan into action
Forms
Countless Vain Attempts
About the Book
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Preface
Why the 12 Steps haven’t worked for you
Believing It IS a disease
How does the disease manifest itself?
Plan of Eating
Character Defects: the Disease’s Arsenal
The Elephant in the Room: Sexuality
Stopping your next Slip
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