This guide is intended to focus on recovery for food addicts as a whole rather than to address specific situations that arise in recovery. Nonetheless, we would like to address the question of what to do when a person following the food plan continues to lose weight after reaching a healthy weight or when a person who is underweight when they begin the program fails to gain. Most food addicts do achieve and maintain a healthy weight by following this plan. However, it does reduce fat intake to an appropriate level. This is not a reducing diet because it is not severely restricted in terms of basic food groups. The food plan eliminates the basic components of our binge foods: sugar, flour, wheat and inordinate amounts of fat (sticky, greasy, pasty foods).
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The food plan is a way of eating that is free from eating sugar, flour and wheat. The most important aspect of maintaining abstinence is to totally eliminate sugar, flour and wheat from our daily lives.
To maintain abstinence, an open mind will be required while our bodies heal and our needs change. Eating the prescribed food plan also offers us a chance to heal our organs and learn the basic fundamentals of healthy eating. This initial food plan has been the most successful for our members to obtain abstinence, enabling them to begin to have clear thinking. For children who need to address food addiction, we recommend that your pediatrician evaluate this food plan to determine your child’s needs.Ĭlear soup is permitted before lunch OR dinner.īecause of our carbohydrate sensitivity, we totally eliminate all artificial sweeteners, including “sugar-free” sodas. At lunch, men also add a serving of one of the following: a fruit, a grain, or a starchy vegetable. NOTE: Men need to add two ounces of fish or poultry or one ounce of red meat at each meal to the amounts shown on the list.
The daily requirement for oil is one serving for women and two servings for men, to be divided among two or three meals. ** The FAA Basic Food Plan is a guide with specific foods listed. NOTE: ALL artificial sweeteners are considered sugar in FAA Syrups, any type: agave syrup, barley syrup, brown rice syrup, corn syrup, date syrup, high fructose corn syrup, maple syrup, raisin syrup,yinnie syrup (rice syrup), etc. Sugars, any type: apple sugar, barbados sugar, bark sugar,beet sugar, brown sugar (any grade), canesugar, caramel sugars, confectioner’s sugar, date sugar, grape sugar, invert sugar, milled sugar, “natural” sugar, powdered sugar, raw sugar, turbinado sugar, unrefined sugar, etc. Maltose, mannose, polydextrose, polytose, ribose, sucralose, sucrose, tagatose, zylose
ose, these additives with this suffix: colorose, dextrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, levulose, maltodextrose, Saccharides (any), trisaccharides,diglycerides, disaccharides, glycerides (any), monoglycerides, onosaccharides, etc.Ĭarbitol, glucitol, glycerol, glycol, hexitol, inversol, maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol, etc. ides, any additive with this suffix: monosodium glycerides, olyglycerides, NOTE: All artificial sweeteners are considered sugar in FAAįat substitutes (made from concentrated fruit paste) Acesulfame-k: (Sunette, Sweet and Safe, Sweet One)Īrtificial sweeteners of any kind: (Equal, Splenda, Sweet’n’low, Sweet Thing)