Is food addiction a disease?

Food addiction is a chronic disease characterized by a person’s seeking foods the individual is addicted to and for whom use of that food is compulsive, and difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.

Brain changes can occur over time with compulsive eating. This can challenge an addicted person’s self-control and interfere with one’s ability to resist intense urges to eat these foods (sometimes described as cravings.) This is why people who suffer with food addiction can often relapse, even after long periods of successful abstinence.

        • Relapse is the return to eating these foods after an attempt to stop.
        • Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
        • It may also mean that another food is triggering the relapse.

Certain foods such as sugar can affect the brain’s reward circuit by flooding it with the chemical messenger dopamine. This overstimulation of the reward circuit causes the intensely pleasurable “high” that leads people to consume a particular food or particular foods again and again.

Over time, the brain can adjust to excess dopamine, which reduces the high that the person feels compared to the high felt when first eating these foods—an effect known as “tolerance.” This often results in seeking to eat more of these foods, in an attempt to achieve the previous levels of satisfaction. For a great many people, abstinence is the solution.

Welcome to our Alumni program! 😀

Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a happy holiday season.

The alumni will only meet once this month on Thursday, December 19th, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST. 

For those of you who still need to sign up for Alumni, you can do so for $20, which includes a link for participation.

Please use the following PayPal link: https://paypal.me/INFACT?country.x=IS&locale.x=en_USHi everyone! 

From Esther Helga
Thank you, Jessica Randal, for your incredible lecture on working with Bariatric surgery patients this past month.
Those who missed it can view the recording on the Infact Moodle platform. 
Our alumni, Mike Featherston, will do a trigger-free cooking class on Thursday, January 16th. 
Tina Meals has agreed to do a session on the Two-Way-Prayer in the new year.
We decided to have Alumni give short introductions at the beginning of the supervision session and then discuss client issues.

To sign up for the Alumni, click the link: https://paypal.me/INFACT?country.x=IS&locale.x=en_US. 
and send an email to esther@infact.is
The price for a year is $200.
You can also pay $20 every month.
 
Those signing up for the Alumni Community this year will have access to the Infact Moodle student platform and Infact 2024-25 cohort lectures and the opportunity to attend sessions and hear our excellent teachers and lecturers.

You'll receive group supervision sessions on the third Thursday of each month at 11 a.m. EST and the fourth Monday at 10 a.m. EST.

✅Monthly lectures: Mike Featherston will teach a cooking class for us in January, and Tina Meals will talk about the Two-Way-Prayer.
✅ Full Access to our Accessive Moodle student platform with essential resources and a forum for continued support.
✅ Half-price off for a private session with Esther Helga.
✅Half-price off the 8-week Treatment & Recovery Practicum course for experiencing outpatient treatment; learn by doing. The next one begins on April 3rd, 2025.
✅ Access to Alumni and their expertise. 

Please let us know if you want to lecture on any subject, and we will sign you up.

If you'd like to take advantage of this opportunity, please send your name and email to esther@infact.is. We will then send you a payment link.
Secure your spot today and embark on this life-changing journey!

Warmly,
Esther Helga Guðmundsdóttir

Are you interested in discovering if you are a food addict?

The INFACT School now offers you access to a free diagnostic tool called the Yale Scale. If you’re curious to find out whether you might have a food addiction or just keen to see the self-report measure in action, you can complete the questionnaire below.

Once you complete the questionnaire, we will be in touch with the next steps to help you in your recovery process.

Complete questionnaire
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