Just do a carnivore / zerocarb diet, that's actually healthy (none of that liquid diet / powder nonsense).
Lots of people doing it are doing it for the same reasons as you, so you'll find support if you need it.
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#13Let me suggest you likely have some kind of vitamin deficiency making you obsessive. Address that and your relationship to food may stop being so problematic.
Not a vitamin but NAC helps me with obsessive behaviors and changing habits. Hilarious that the FDA threw a fit over it.
If you mean N-acetyl cysteine, it's a glutathione precursor. Glutathione is an important antioxidant critical to liver function, among other things.
Milk thistle (as a supplement) is a popular glutathione precursor. There are others but I don't remember them because milk thistle worked for me, so that's what I used.
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#14Have you talked with a therapist?
And maybe get a blood checkup once you are at it, many nutrition deficiencies can be diagnosed this way in one go.
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#15Let me suggest you likely have some kind of vitamin deficiency making you obsessive. Address that and your relationship to food may stop being so problematic.
I’m not sure how to take this comment. I understand it’s probably coming from a good place but when has a vitamin deficiency ever been linked to obsessive tendencies? On its face, this comment was ripped right from Nextdoor or Facebook.
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#16> I have very poor moderation but I've got strong will power.
There's a paradox in there. My suggestion would be to explore that.
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#17Let me suggest you likely have some kind of vitamin deficiency making you obsessive. Address that and your relationship to food may stop being so problematic.
Not a vitamin but NAC helps me with obsessive behaviors and changing habits. Hilarious that the FDA threw a fit over it.
Anecdotally, I've been able to almost completely curb my lifelong nail-biting habit with NAC.
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#18Let me suggest you likely have some kind of vitamin deficiency making you obsessive. Address that and your relationship to food may stop being so problematic.
I’m not sure how to take this comment. I understand it’s probably coming from a good place but when has a vitamin deficiency ever been linked to obsessive tendencies? On its face, this comment was ripped right from Nextdoor or Facebook.
It was ripped from firsthand personal experience raising a child with obsessive tendencies who is much less crazy making these days.
Among other things.
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#19Your problem doesn't lie in to what you're currently addicted to but the addiction and obessiveness as a whole. I have the same problem and when I stop myself from consuming something it just turns out that I have switched it with something else. I've been able to stop drinking, smoking, etc. but I've found other alternative sources of addiction in their place. I don't know how to solve the problem of addiction as a whole yet but you should focus on that in my opinion.
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#20Nadie puede ser feliz