by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Oct 28, 2012 | anxiety, bipolar, eating disorder recovery, eating frenzy, food and depression, Food Junkie, ideal weight, mood swing, sugar high, withdrawal
I remember when my youngest son Benjamin, at eight years old, blurted out, “I think you’re bipolar Mom!” after witnessing my mood swing from ecstatic to torment following a whirlwind eating frenzy. I used to binge daily on cakes, cookies, ice-cream, and baked potato...
by Lisa Ortigara Crego | May 17, 2011 | addictions, carb addiction, chemical dependence, Food Addiction, food dependence, Food Junkie, physiological dependence, spiritual awakening, sugar addiction
My first real summer job, at the age of 13, was at the local bakery in town in Wautoma, Wisconsin. Getting that job I’d thought I won the lottery ticket. I had access to the goods five days a week with little supervision. It was a Willie Wonka life—for real. I ate...
