{"id":3386,"date":"2024-04-12T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prionline.nl\/chocolate-chocolate-and-more-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:43:55","slug":"chocolate-chocolate-and-more-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prionline.nl\/en\/chocolate-chocolate-and-more-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#00185b\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Liberated from a food addiction<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>My whole life I have struggled with being overweight, losing pounds and gaining pounds, a new diet and losing the pounds again, but then suddenly gaining it all back. And underneath that, the enormous disappointment in myself, why couldn't I resist, why couldn't I just be slim like the rest of the world, just eat one piece of chocolate and then put the bar away, why, why? It drove me crazy and desperate.  <\/p>\n\n<p>I really didn't see myself as a stupid woman, I had a very good job, managed at a high level, flew around the world for my work, no presentation or meeting with anyone was too crazy for me. Why couldn't I stay slim, but above all, why couldn't I prevent those eating attacks. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#00185b\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Invisible power<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Like devils out of a box, they were there, I felt completely okay, nothing was wrong. And then suddenly, like a pop-up in my head, M&amp;M's, or Tony Chocolonely, or BonBonBloc, and that pop-up wouldn't go away until I gave in. As if an invisible force was sucking me towards it, and I had no choice. At some moments I really felt like a junkie, no rest until I had my shot of chocolate. And the pounds kept piling on. I didn't want to diet anymore, I have always believed that there had to be a real lasting solution somewhere. That would go further than resisting chocolate with willpower for a lifetime, but that would free me from the underlying cause. Where did that come from?       <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#00185b\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Finally\u2026recognition<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>When I came into contact with PRI, I knew, this is it, there was so much recognition. The book 'The Re-discovery of the True Self', I remember it well, when I read it, it seemed as if the whole book was written for me. And the good news, here was the solution I always believed in, I couldn't consciously do anything about it! Wow, I was so happy to read that. I then started doing PRI and discovered that eating was a substitute for something I was missing in my life.<br\/>In my case, it was about support, loving presence, warmth and often also rest. Just like all 'numbing' substances, the intake of chocolate gave me the illusion that I was now getting this, through that piece of chocolate. I was already aware that it was about a lack, but because PRI not only works with that knowledge but precisely with the underlying feeling, and goes back to the past to really feel how I missed that in the beginning of my life, and how alone that felt, that's how I could disconnect it from the feeling in the present.      <\/p>\n\n<p>When I consciously think about it, it is almost too crazy for words, but still, I can recall it so well, the taste and the feeling of the chocolate, the peace and warmth it gave me. I say gave, because with PRI I have freed myself from this bizarre illusion. In my case, it is often the case that I perceive that there is far too much coming at me that I cannot handle, and at such a moment eating chocolate gives me a way out, rest. With PRI I have learned that that perception is not correct, and I unconsciously give my own interpretation to it.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#00185b\" class=\"has-inline-color\">You can do it too\u2026really!<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Of course I sometimes miss support, or warmth or rest, but I know and feel one thing very certain now, chocolate is certainly not going to give me that either. By working with PRI, I have dismantled my own unconscious system and I am completely free from the intense impulses where I 'had' to eat. Occasionally a wave still comes by, but then I can apply the PRI steps and feel what is going on at that moment and what I am really running into, so that eating chocolate no longer has a function.  <\/p>\n\n<p>It is such an amazing liberation. I wish that for everyone! Do you recognize this? Do you also struggle with a food addiction? Know that this is also possible for you. It is not always easy, but it is possible, don't doubt but start now, you can do it too, really!     <\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>Henny Venekamp (49)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Do you also have a difficult relationship with food? Then read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/prionline.nl\/en\/home\/anorexia-and-eating-disorders\/\">the PRI approach<\/a> or buy the book by Ingeborg Bosch: <a href=\"https:\/\/prionline.nl\/en\/boek\/vrij-van-eetproblemen\/\">Loving Life \u2013 Free from Eating Problems<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberated from a food addiction My whole life I have struggled with being overweight, losing pounds and gaining pounds, a new diet and losing the pounds again, but then suddenly gaining it all back. 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