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Food Addiction & Cravings
Practical and clinical perspectives on food noise, binge eating, compulsive eating, emotional eating, and cravings.
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Understanding Hunger: Why Your Hunger Has Nothing to Do with Willpower
One of the biggest myths in medicine is that hunger is simply a matter of self-control. If that were true, obesity would have been solved decades ago. Instead,…
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Healing Your Relationship with Food in Two Parts: Biology First, Compassion Second
I view my journey to sustainable weight loss and healing my relationship with food as two distinct parts. The first is understanding my body’s relationship to food. Not…
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Coach Tia’s 30-Day Sugar Break-Up: It’s Time to End the Relationship That Isn’t Serving You
What if the food you crave most is the very thing keeping you stuck? This August, Coach Tia Reid is inviting all Toward Health premium app members to…
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What is Food Grief? (And Why It’s Not Actually About the Food)
If you had told me a few years ago, when I weighed over 400 pounds and was seriously considering bariatric surgery, that I’d someday be writing about grief…
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Self-Loathing is a Learned Behavior
In regard to my relationship with food, weight and body image, I’ve always secretly felt like I was more broken than most people, and that if anyone…
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Health Isn’t a Willpower Problem, It’s a People Problem
If you’re trying to change your diet, reclaim your health and build a better life, you know how isolating it can feel. The world is not set up…
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Managing Cravings: The Moment After ‘The F-Its’ Hit
Medically reviewed by Tro Kalayjian, DO Updated and medically reviewed August 28, 2026 It’s been a long day. You’re exhausted, stressed, maybe anxious or overwhelmed. Emotions are running…
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Nighttime Eating Isn’t About Hunger. It’s About This.
I didn’t know there was a name for it, but the second I heard the phrase Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, it hit me like a ton of bricks as…
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Handling Your Diet Over the Holidays: Mastering the Pivot
There’s something so familiar and appealing about starting your diet on a Monday. A new page, a fresh calendar, a psychological exhale. And January 1? Even when it…
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Breaking the Cycle:
Letting Go of ShameAs a health coach, I have a front row seat to the terrible things people think and say about themselves over their eating – the cruel self-judgment, the…
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Beyond Diets: How I Found
the Support I DeservedTwo years into my low-carb journey, I found myself in a place I knew all too well after decades on the diet-binge rollercoaster: panicked, frustrated, and angry at…
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New Study: TOWARD, a metabolic health intervention that improves food addiction and binge eating symptoms
Blauvelt, NY – Toward Health has released new research in Frontiers in Psychiatry confirming that food addiction and binge eating can be significantly improved through a virtual, lifestyle-first…
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Amy’s Corner:
Self-Loathing is a
Learned BehaviorIn regard to my relationship with food, weight and body image, I’ve always secretly felt like I was more broken than most people, and that if anyone knew…
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Mastering Special Events
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and, unfortunately for many, a potential derailing of carefully maintained diets. Thanksgiving, in particular, often serves as the…
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From Obesity Prison to
Empowered HealthFor over five decades, Amy Eiges found herself trapped in what she called “obesity prison.” Despite seeking answers from doctors, her weight struggle seemed never-ending. At 410lbs, she…
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The Clinical Approach to Food Addiction, Informed Consent & Hunger
Watch Tro Kalayjian, DO, discuss his clinical approach to food addiction, informed consent, and hunger at Low Carb Denver 2023, with related historical context.
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Member Spotlight: Joan B
Name: Joan Bjornsgaard Age: 69 Live: Tulsa, OK Profession: psychotherapist for 28 years, still in practice Diet/weight history: I’ve tried them all. I was first put on…
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The “5 Musts” of
lifestyle changeAfter helping thousands of patients lose weight, here’s my advice for those looking for lifelong, sustainable life changes. These are the “5 MUSTS” anyone trying to lose weight…
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CGMs, Group Medical Visits, and Food Addiction Symptoms: Pilot Study
Author: Brian Wiley Medically reviewed by Tro Kalayjian, DO Updated and medically reviewed August 28, 2026 A 2026 pilot mixed-methods study by David J. Johnson, Laura A. Buchanan,…
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Misunderstood: Food Addiction
Food addiction has been a pretty controversial subject recently; many people deny it even exists because they just can’t fathom the fact that you can be addicted to…
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