# @yahoolifestyle on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5WKkytkOJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12303408-yahoolifestyle-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-17T16:03:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Yahoo Life (@yahoolifestyle) — https://gondola.cc/yahoolifestyle

## Caption

A new report finds that 1 in 8 people over the age of 50 have a #foodaddiction — and ultra- processed foods play a role. ⁠
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Author #SaraSomers details what it’s like living with food addiction, and says she would go through garbage to try to get back #food that she dumped in the trash. ⁠
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She was addicted to sugary foods and different kinds of carbohydrates and says, "The more I dieted, the more it didn't work — I kept gaining the weight back, plus more. I got a sense of failure and that this was never going to work."⁠
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As a result, she began overeating and abusing alcohol, and "wanted more than anything in the world" to be somebody else. ⁠
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She discovered 12-step programs through Alcoholics Anonymous, but resisted treatment for years: "I got a solution, I didn't like it and I didn't want to work that hard." ⁠
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Now, Somers says she weighs her food at every meal to help her control portion sizes. Despite the gains she's made, Somers still views herself as having a food addiction: "It's an illness that can't be cured — it can only be arrested." There's light at the end of the tunnel, though. She says, "I've learned to cook. I enjoy food. I'm never hungry. I never have cravings. My relationship with food is good."⁠
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Link in bio for what to do if you think you have a food addiction.⁠
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✏️: Yahoo Life
📷: Getty, Joamir Salcedo

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sarasomers, food, foodaddiction

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