One thing that I would like to start off and say about sugar addiction and food addiction is that I prefer to look at them as behavioral disorders rather than weight-related disorders. And I think that a lot of people tend to confuse them with weight-related issues or at least try to measure recovery based on pounds lost.

But when food addiction culture turns into a culture of: how many pounds did you lose? I think it does our movement a big disservice and it makes it very frown-able by the eating disorder community because the eating disorder community is working really hard to promote positive body image and to end weight stigma.

The energy in the nutrition field is so tribalistic that someone couldn't actually be interested in the intersection of these issues and see where people have both of these problems, where they converge, and where they diverge. It's been very frustrating for me to have conversations because it seems like people either do fall into one tribe or the other. I believe this split is causing harm to clients and patients, particularly for people with binge eating disorders.

I just want to bring the body image conversation into the sugar addiction world a little bit. I want to just bring that in and say that when people recover from body image issues and make peace in their body, whatever that means, whether that means staying the same weight, losing weight, gaining weight, whatever that means for the person, is that there are different things that happen in one's relationship with food.

If you have felt torn by the split in the field, please leave a comment below. There are efforts to bridge the gaps between these worlds, and these conversations are the beginning of it!

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