Food Junkies Summit Day 27!!
Kieran Murphy shares his story of strength and hope!!
Food Junkies Summit ~ Marla Marcus
Food Junkies Summit Day 26!!
Marla Marcus is a lifelong food addict who professes that she would binge on drywall. At 52, Marla had the RNY procedure and believes without it she would not have found her way here. While she was pretty much a poster child for the surgery, 4 years out she knew that her problem was much bigger than what she put in her mouth. Marla says she literally had no off switch. On September 12, 2016, she walked through the doors of Renacent, and has not looked back. Her parting words after 21 days there were that she was never going to an OA meeting again because she was unique. Marla just celebrated 5 years of abstinence, attends OA and other 12 step food fellowships upwards of 7 days a week, has been a key contributor since the start of Sugar-Free for Life Support group, and is now working on learning what it means to live a life of recovery. Marla believes that without connection, 12 steps, like-minded fellows, and a higher power, she would be face down in the food. ~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Sachir Ajlouni
Food Junkies Summit Day 25!!
Sachir Ajlouni, is an engineer turned business executive. Sachir is also a food addict who struggled with weight and food-related issues for over 30 years. Over that time, Sachir lost and gained a total of 1000 pounds.
For the last six years, Sachir has been in stable recovery, during which he has helped more than 400 individuals struggling with food addiction and weight matters.
Sachir joined Acorn’s Recovery Professional Training Program and got certified as a food addiction professional in 2018. He recently launched Aglon Recovery, a virtual recovery center set up with the intention of providing HOPE & a PATH to RECOVERY from food addiction and other eating disorders to those in need mainly in the MENA region. A Path to Wellness, a 3 stage program currently offered by Aglon Recovery, was developed by Sachir Ajlouni over the last 5 years and is geared to fit the middle eastern culture with its specific beliefs and idiosyncrasies. ~Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Tony Vassallo!
Food Junkies Summit Day 24!!
Tony has an inspiring recovery journey with Food Addiction. At one point in his life, he experienced a multitude of metabolic issues such as Type II diabetes, hypertension, gout, acid reflux, sleep apnea, constant joint pain. In 2010, he began his life-changing journey of losing 130 pounds and has successfully maintained his weight loss.
He is the founder of MODA Nutrition and he has a passion for helping others achieve healthy, sustained weight loss by using his famous mantra JERF: Just Eat Real Food.
Cilantro & Scallion Lime Dressing
Pumpkin Puree
Food Junkies Summit ~ Molly Carmel
Food Junkies Summit Day 23!!
Molly Carmel is an addiction and eating disorder therapist and the founder and treatment developer of Beacon by MC. She began her professional path after not being able to find a sustainable solution for her own food addiction. Molly has a bachelor’s degree in social work from Cornell University and a master’s in social work from Columbia University. She also has extensive training in Substance Use, Eating Disorders and is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
Molly has an unwavering passion for helping people break free from abusive relationships with Sugar, dieting, body obsession, and the like. It’s why she extended the realm of her training into the spirit – Molly is trained in Shamanism, Tibetian sound healing, breathwork, reiki, and intenSati and is a pretty rigorous meditator. ~Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Dr. Eva Clemente and Dr. Raquel Delgado
Food Junkies Summit Day 22 !!
Dr. Eva Clemente Registered Doctor and Food Addiction Expert:
Hello, I am Dr. Eva Clemente with over 20 years of experience working and living in London. I graduated in Madrid, Spain in 1997 and moved to the UK 23 years ago where I completed my postgraduate training. I have been treating people living with Diabetes and weight problems for over 12 years. During this time, I had grown frustrated with the traditional methods used to manage compulsive eating disorders and weight problems.
After many years looking for a solution, I found the Institute of Food Addiction in Iceland where I learned about the concept of food addiction and obtained my qualification as a Food Addiction Counsellor by the European Certification Board. Their successful holistic approach gave me the confidence to help my clients maintain a healthy weight, free of food cravings and obsessions.
Food addiction counseling together with my medical background gives me the perfect tools to support my clients on a life-changing journey.
Dr. Raquel Delgado Registered Doctor and Food Addiction Counsellor:
Hi, I’m Dr. Raquel Delgado, as a General Practitioner (Family Physician Doctor) I was trained to believe that eating less and moving more was the answer. Yet in 15 years of clinical practice, I felt powerless to help patients with Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other weight-related problems.
In 2016, I learned that low carbohydrate, ketogenic and intermittent fasting diets could help with weight loss and managing weight-related problems. But after an initially successful weight loss journey on these diets, many people were relapsing into eating fast food and high carb diets again.
In 2019, a friend mentioned that her overeating and obesity were due to sugar addiction. It made a lot of sense to me! Soon after I signed up for the Food Addiction Training by INFACT and became a Food Addiction Counsellor.
Now, I believe that to stop the endless vicious circle of dieting, binge eating, overeating, shame, and guilt we need to rule out an underlying food addiction.
Food Junkies Podcast Episode 43: Cynthia Myers-Morrison
Cynthia J. Myers-Morrison, Ed.D. served as an educator for one of her careers: including the English Specialist position for all of Los Angeles Unified School District 7-12 schools as well as teaching and administrative positions for 17 and 10 years respectively. Her dedication to lifelong learning and attaining and maintaining freedom from addictions (alcohol, drugs, nicotine, sex, grains, sugar, codependency, cluttering, and workaholism) led her to Food Addiction Institute. As Co-chair with David Avram Wolfe for the webinars and in her work as Vice-Chair of FAI, she strives to support individuals, families, legislators, and educators in changing responses to food addiction.
Food Junkies Summit ~ Frida Sandin
Food Junkies Summit Day 21!!
Frida Sandin is a HolisticAddictionMedicine (HAM) therapist, Behavioural scientist, and nutritional advisor. She is a sober addict with a big heart to help others relate and quit the drug.
Charlotte Schön Poulsen is an Alcohol & Drug therapist, Health coach and nutritional advisor, and passionate about dietary and behavioural effects on body and mind.
Together they are the core of LevaSockerfri (Sugarfreeliving). Since 2016, Frida and Charlotte work professionally with those who have addiction to sugar and/or other (processed) food substances.
The LevaSockerfri treatment program provides a holistic, solution-oriented, approach to addiction. It is all based upon the knowledge from great masters like Robert Lustig, Nicole Avena, Joan Ifland, Eric Braverman, Paul Earley, and not the least, Swedish Bitten Jonsson.
Charlotte and Frida work with food addiction through science and proven experience as defined in ASAM, using screening tools like UNCOPE and diagnostics through SUGAR(r).
Being a team enables Frida and Charlotte to work with groups and individual therapy, with a large variety of methods like ACT, MI, NLP, EFT, CRA, meditation, and mindfulness to mention some.
Charlotte and Frida believe in empowering you as an individual and our long-term treatment program is open for both English-, Danish- and Swedish-speaking food addicts.
Regain your power and reclaim your life! ~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Dr. Jennifer Unwin BSc, MSc, DPsy, FBPsS
Food Junkies Summit Day 20!!
Dr. Jennifer Unwin BSc, MSc, DPsy, FBPsS is a consultant clinical health psychologist based in the United Kingdom.
She works with the NHS helping patients manage chronic illness and achieve wellbeing. She also works with her GP husband Dr. David Unwin helping patients stick to lifestyle changes. Together, they are consultants for Diet Doctor.
Dr. Unwin is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and a former chair of the UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
Dr. Jen Unwin created the GRIN tool with physicians in mind.
Heidi Giaever started out in Chemical Engineering. Since then, she has studied Nutrition and Metabolic Therapies as well as Lifestyle Medicine and Sugar and Processed Food Addiction.
Heidi has an Advanced Diploma in Nutrition & Weight Management and is certified by the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine to practice Lifestyle Medicine. Heidi is also a Certified and Licensed Practitioner for the screening and diagnosis of Sugar and Processed Food Addictions and an X-Pert Diabetes coach and trainer. ~ Vera Ingrid Tarman
Food Junkies Summit ~ Judy Wolfe and Anna Fruehling
Food Junkies Summit Day 19!!
Judy Wolfe is a Certified Food Addiction Counselor and Sugar Certified/Licensed.
Anna Fruehling is Primal Health Certified, KETO/Carnivore Certified, and Sugar Certified/Licensed.
Both are SUGARx Global co-founders and coaches.
Food Junkies Summit ~ Amanda Leith
Food Junkies Summit Day 18!!
Amanda Leith launched SHiFT – Recovery by Acorn in the Spring of 2019, opening an exciting new chapter in the 25-year legacy of Acorn Food Dependency Recovery Services. A member of the Acorn team since 2015, Amanda is an addictions counselor and a recovering food addict.
Amanda’s passion for recovery from food addiction helps to produce life-changing results with her clients. Her sharp sense of what needs to be addressed first in an individual’s life in order to overcome food addiction guides her practice. The message that she brings to those struggling is one of hope.
Amanda is an addiction counselor, a certified food addiction counselor, FAI/ACORN certified food addiction professional, and CENAPS-trained Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist (ARPS), with a background in drug and alcohol addiction counseling and group facilitation. She sits on the board of directors for the Food Addiction Institute.
Food Junkies Summit ~ Tony Vassallo!
Food Junkies Summit Day 17!!
Tony is a Man on a Nutrition Mission; Founder of MODA Nutrition, he has a passion for helping others achieve healthy, sustained weight loss by using his famous mantra JERF ~ Just Eat Real Food.
Tony has an inspiring recovery journey with Food Addiction. At one point in his life, he experienced a multitude of metabolic issues such as Type II diabetes, hypertension, gout, acid reflux, sleep apnea, constant joint pain. In 2010, he began his life-changing journey of losing 130 pounds and has successfully maintained his weight loss.
