Why can't I stop eating?

In your brain is an appetite switch. If it is stuck in the on position, you can't help but overeat. Your brain will drive you to eat. You won't be able to stop yourself, no matter how punishing the consequence or how attractive the reward for not eating.

The way you get more choices for yourself is by turning off your appetite switch. I did and what a relief--to not be driven to binge, to eat healthy meals and find them satisfying, to not be haunted by certain foods when I'm trying to do something else. To feel good about myself at the end of the day instead of guilty about anything I put in my mouth.

What I didn't expect was that after my appetite switch was managed, I'd free up enough thinking room and energy to go back to school, to write books, to move to the part of the country I'd always loved, and to find my soul mate.

I didn't realize that my preoccupation with food was cheating me of living.

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