Discovering My Trigger Foods, Part I

Discovering My Trigger Foods, Part I

Someone asked me recently how I discovered my food triggers. This is an insightful question. I will answer it in two parts.

At the end of 2019, I knew enough about food addiction to name it in myself. I knew, too, that the processed foods of the standard American diet caused problems for me.

At the time, I thought my understanding of food addiction was the capstone of what I needed to lose weight. In some ways, that was true. In other ways, that was just the beginning.

I know this is true: food addiction plays out in my body in the simplest, most predictable ways and in the most complex, challenging ways in today’s food environment.

Discovering My Trigger Foods Was a Process

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