obviously have a baby. she chuckles. there s loads of different types of weight loss surgery, but i had gastric sleeve surgery. this is when you have up to 70% of your stomach or more cut out of your body. it s irreversible, and it works cos you get full much quicker and if you try to eat more, you might struggle to keep it down. so when i think about what i ate before surgery, i d go for the crisps, probably go for the chocolate, as well, maybe one of these. i d ignore that stuff. and i ll show you what i had today. so i had a pasta salad, a chicken pasta salad. well, i had a quarter. people recognise bulimia, anorexia and other things as being eating disorders, but food addiction, it s similar to having an addiction to alcohol or an addiction to cigarettes, and you struggle and battle with it. if i hadn t been approved to have surgery through the nhs, i think i probably would have gone abroad to have surgery.
People who have both type 2 diabetes and a food addiction are also more likely to have a higher body mass index and display psychological symptoms such as depression, according to research.
Food addiction is the compulsive need to eat junk food that has a lot of carbohydrates, sugar, flour and other fatty substances. This can occur even when you are not hungry.