A guide to clean abstinence
Edited 6/27/2022
Food addiction is a biochemical chronic brain disease which can be treated successfully. This Food Addicts BreakingFree (FAB) food plan is our prescription for recovery. It eliminates cravings and manages volume. The basic foundation of recovery is abstaining on a physical level from all mood-altering substances. For food addicts, abstinence from highly refined food and mood-altering chemicals constitutes the absolute foundation of recovery from food addiction. It is crucial to begin at this point.
Goals of the Recovery Food Plan
- Eliminates the addictive substances
- Balances protein and carbohydrate
- Manages volume
- Provides scientifically sound nutrition
- Distributes nutrients throughout the day to maintain a level metabolism
Food Plan Principles
- The FAB food plan, along with the FAB twelve steps, will ensure the greatest growth in recovery
- This is not a diet, it’s a food plan that creates metabolic balance in our bodies and brains
- Connect with recovering food addicts daily, our addiction breeds isolation
- A sponsor is crucial to successfully implementing the food plan and working the FAB twelve steps
- Check labels rigorously, including currently used abstinent foods, producers/manufacturers change ingredients without notice
- Know the names of addictive substances
- Planning, preparing and reporting accountability is the key to successful recovery
- Commit to weighing and measuring food according to this plan
- If any of your binge foods appear on the food plan, eliminate them as a personal choice for you
- When we admit that we are powerless over addictive foods — that our lives are unmanageable, we have taken the first step of recovery
Consult your physician before using this or any other food plan
Kay Sheppard is the creator of the Food Addicts BreakingFree Food Plan. It is with her permission and approval that we name it as such and adapt it to our fellowship to include in our literature. We commit to using it based on her research and development of a scientifically sound nutrition plan for our food addiction community.