• Do you have a habit of eating late at night after dinner?
• Do you have a tendency to binge?
• Do you constantly crave sweets, pasta, bread and other high-carbohydrate foods?
• Do you nibble all day long when food is available?
• Do you have a strong desire to eat again within two hours of eating a filling meal?
• Do you consider yourself a compulsive eater?
• Have you ever said, " I only wish I could control my eating behavior "?
• Do you wish you had more control over how much food you eat?
• Do you have specific symptoms of ill health, such as the ones I ' m about to list, that diminish or vanish as soon as you eat? Do you suffer from: irritability? inexplicable drops in your energy level throughout the day? often overwhelming bouts of fatigue, especially in the afternoon? mood swings? difficulty concentrating? sleep difficulties-whether the need for lots of sleep or a habit of waking from a sound sleep? anxiety, sadness and depression for which there ' s no obvious explanation? dizziness, trembling or palpitations? brain fog and loss of mental acuity?
Group C: " I Can ' t Live Without This One Food!"
• Do you have a single food or beverage you feel you could not do without?
• Would you pass up an elegant meal to have your most favorite food instead?
• Is there a specific food or beverage that makes you feel better as soon as you consume it?
• Do you ever think, " I wonder if I could be addicted to that food / beverage "?
• Do you feel this way about a category of foods( sweets, soft drinks, dairy products, grains, for example)?
What Your Answers Reveal
First of all, I would find it hard to believe there could be a significantly overweight person who had no " yes " responses. If your affirmative responses form a pattern, I almost undoubtedly have a solution for your problem.
So let ' s delve a little deeper. Do most of your " yes " responses place you in Group A? Then you have a metabolic problem, manifested either by an inability to lose weight or keep it off, or by hunger or the inability to achieve and maintain satiety( a feeling of being full or satisfied).
If most of your " yes " responses were to Group B questions, you probably have some form of glucose intolerance. You may suffer from hypoglycemia-more accurately called unstable blood sugar, or, in some cases, pre-diabetes.
If most of your affirmative answers were to questions in Group C, you probably have an addiction to the food or beverage you singled out. Another term for the phenomenon is " food allergy " or the more accurate term of " individual food intolerance "
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