More than just being an individual issue of having "no willpower" or "losing control" when it comes to eating certain foods, the ingredients in many of the common foods on the market actually can create an addiction in the brain. Studies have shown that our brains light up with eating sugar (and refined carbohydrates like pasta and bread) in the same way they light up with drugs like heroin, especially for people who have higher tendencies toward addiction. If you feel "weak" around certain foods, it may be due to more than willpower...it may actually be that you have created an addiction without realizing. By recognizing this, you can take steps to break the habit or addiction rather than beating yourself up the next time you "lose control" and wonder why you can't seem to stop eating. For a free binge eating breakthrough course and further support, visit http://www.bingeeatingbreakthrough.com

1. 10 Commonly Addictive
Foods
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2. Which foods are the most
addicting? We have listed the top
10 commonly addictive foods.
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3. Top 10: White Bread
It's made with refined flour, which has been stripped
of the bran, the germ, and all of the nutrients
normally present in bread.

4. Top 9: Donuts
Science has proven the crazy-addictive
potential of sugar.

5. Top 8: Pasta
We eat way too much of this starchy childhood favorite—
and then we drench it in butter, salt, and cheese

6. Top 7: Cake
There's something irresistible about the spongy buoyancy of
a sugary cake—and don't even get us started on frosting.

7. Top 6: Chips
Chips are ridiculously high in fat and salt, but that
doesn't stop with the notoriously greasy brands.

8. Top 5: Cookies
According to a research review, merely seeing tempting food
releases dopamine. Indulge and your brain gets a boost from that
happy hormone, priming you to want more (and more, and more.)

9. Top 4: Chocolates
According to a research chocoholics had physical,
behavioral, and emotional responses to chocolate that
closely resembled those of drug addicts to their drugs.

10. Top 3: French Fries
French fries are a dieter's nightmare and a food industry's
dream. They're the apex of the sugar-fat-salt triumvirate:
salted, fatty, and with a touch of natural sugar.

11. Top 2: Candy
The sugary foods you're exposed to in utero and throughout
childhood make kids love—and crave—more sugar.

12. Top 1: Ice Cream
Ice cream is the go-to breakup binge, the creamiest
celebration treat, the perfect hot-summer-day refresher, the
more comforting cold-winter-night snack.

13. For a free binge eating breakthrough
course and further support, visit
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