cravings, I found that it was due to allergies/intolerances I had to certain types of food.

I’d recommend getting a full food allergy testing done. Yorktest do one where they post out the pack to you and you post it back. It costs, but is worth EVERY penny!

Congratulations on 30 days and best wishes on reaching 50! Achieving emotional wellbeing is so important as well, so kudos for that too!

..white-knuckling it is as a way to counteract cravings. By seeing it as how long you’ve “resisted”, you are still focussing on the food and giving it power over you. Just something to ponder. I’ve always found the OA idea of “accepting your powerlessness over food” rather damaging – if you accept/decide that you will never be well, how will you ever heal? But then again I am beset with food issues myself, and I’m on an ongoing journey to figure them out, so who am I to advise?!

In the interests of healing my own relationship with food and my body, I’ve spent quite a lot of time lately looking into programs that treat emotional eating and all kinds of food issues in new and innovative ways. If you’re interested, I’d be delighted to point you at a some websites and online groups that I think you might find useful in your journey.

Relating to what weallareone said about allergies and intolerances, I happen to know that Yorktest have a sale on at the moment, so it’s worth checking them out soon if you’d like to explore that avenue.

You should be so proud of yourself! I’d love to hear some of what you’ve learned on this journey. Keep going!!

It is incredible that you are trying to do this but remember even after those 50 days are over you need to keep on your journey! on the 51st day you should eat exactly like you did on day 1! great job i wish you the best of luck!!