Is there a food you like too much?

We all have our favourite foods.

Foods we like a lot.   These tend to be foods we may leave room in our stomachs for, or when we are in a social situation we may fill up on these foods. These foods may be our ‘comfort foods’.

If these foods are in our home, we tend to finish them off very quickly, or they are always on our shopping list.   Examples can include chocolate, cheese, lollies, salty or savoury things, cakes, fizzy drinks, juices, chips, breads etc.  Maybe you:

• Love desserts and sweet things so much, that at a buffet or smorgasbord, you would fill your plate with desserts before you even consider eating anything else,
• Love fizzy drinks so much you will drink many cans or bottles every day, and even though you’ve tried alternatives, nothing else fills that space in the same way,
• Adore cheese, and will eat cheese with almost anything or everything, or
• Can see elements of yourself in the above examples, but for a different food.

Often this desire to eat a specific food may initially seem quite amusing - to yourself, as well as to family and friends. It may just be considered your “quirk”. It may remain benign and harmless for evermore.

But for some of us, our passion or desire for our favourite or loved food shifts to another level, and now you want to stop eating or drinking that food but in spite of your best efforts, you can’t.

Why your Favorite Food may now be a problem

Your favourite food is a problem when you know, or come to believe that your continued consumption of it is starting to impact your health, your sense of well being and your life.

Your favourite food is a problem when in spite of that knowledge you can’t seem to stop eating that food, or be satisfied to just eat modest amounts of it.

You may be:

• Diabetic, or pre-diabetic and know you shouldn’t eat sweet things, but you can’t help yourself when it’s in front of you. Some diabetics even mess around with their insulin just to be able to eat some of their favourite foods.
• Overweight and know its time for you to stop drinking those fizzy drinks, or hankering for chocolate, and just knowing that makes you want to have more of it.
• Suffering from high cholesterol and know its time for you to stop eating cheese and other savoury foods, and it makes you miserable to say no, and deny yourself that way.
• Concern that if you continue to eat certain foods the way you presently are, you will develop a health problem in the future.
• Trying to lose weight and know that you keep sabotaging yourself by your passion for one specific type of food. 
• Have developed a food allergy - to wheat for example, but find it hard not to eat bread. 

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