If I am following you correctly re: you are starting to consciously avoid certain foods because they will send you into a binge…..absolutely, 100% yes, people (and I) do this (avoid certain trigger foods).

You see, there really is such a thing as a food addiction, more specifically, addiction to sugar, refined white flour, and fat. Check out my “food addiction” category….I’ve written a few posts on this already but will be writing many more, especially on the topic of sugar.

If you do cut out the addictive ingredients, it doesn’t necessarily mean (at least in my exp.) that all cravings will go away, however I don’t find myself binging on non-addictive foods.

I also believe that some additives are addictive (I’ll write more on that topic, too).

Let me know if you have any other questions, or if you have questions about any of my posts under “food addiction”, leave me a comment(s) there, and I will do my best to answer it.

Hope this helps, (you have excellent questions)!

JoLynn

I phrased that horribly. Not eating is an all or nothing, the motivation for not eating is what I was looking for.

Have you uncovered anything about people not eating because they fear having a binge response?

I’m finding more often than not that I have to avoid foods containing the combination of fat and refined sugar because it can be difficult to stop eating. To this end, healthy eating isn’t just eating the right food, it’s more about avoiding the ones that exploit this skewed relationship with food. It’s kind of like giving up smoking – if you are a nicotine addict, you can’t have anything to do with it because the chances of relapse are so high.

From what I remember when I was a smoker, the feeling / process is different in that I smoked only as much as I needed to make the cravings go away, once they were gone, my desire to smoke went away. The opposite is true for the refined sugar and fat combination. I may initially feel like eating one doughnut but if I buy 6, they’ll all be gone in a few minutes regardless of how full I may feel. So I stay away from them, which is a lot easier than enjoying them in moderation. I’ve had to adopt the food as fuel approach primarily and move away from the food as a facilitator of experience notion.