The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook Quotes

“Impulsivity is the tendency to act quickly without planning or thinking about consequences. Some people do recognize that what they are thinking of doing may be harmful, but the thrill or excitement they expect outweighs the risk. Compulsivity means that you are aware of the downside of the behavior but you feel drawn to do it anyway, possibly again and again.”
― Carolyn Coker Ross, The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook: How to Manage Cravings, Reduce Stress, and Stop Hating Your Body

“reward deficiency syndrome, or RDS. RDS is a cluster of conditions that are thought to be the result of a deficiency in dopamine receptors in the reward center of the brain.”
― Carolyn Coker Ross, The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook: How to Manage Cravings, Reduce Stress, and Stop Hating Your Body

“You can recover by stopping your use of drugs or food or alcohol, but if you don’t explore the deeper reasons why you use, why you became addicted in the first place, you will have only a superficial and fragile kind of recovery—sometimes called “white-knuckling it.”
― Carolyn Coker Ross, The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook: How to Manage Cravings, Reduce Stress, and Stop Hating Your Body