Are you struggling with overeating, weight gain, and compulsion with food?
You didn’t get sober for that!
Get ready to lose the weight and solve food compulsion in sobriety for good.
8 weeks of structured curriculum, coaching, and guaranteed weight loss, created for sober people by a sober nutritionist.
If this sounds familiar:
Then you’re in exactly the right place.
One Pound at a Time - OPAAT - was made for you.
At the end of 8 weeks you’ll:
Know how to eat peacefully and without struggle to get the results that you want, week after week (no starving, crazy-town, turn-your-world upside down diet templates or abstinence models).
Understand the cause of food compulsion and exactly what to do to overcome it.
Lose weight – the amount you decide, week after week.
Save time, money and energy on food
Have increased emotional sobriety and physical health.
Be able to go anywhere and feel in charge of your eating regardless of what foods are served(THAT is food freedom!)
A complete transformation of mind, body, and spirit with food.
We. Are. Different.
Healthy Diets, bootcamps, and every therapy - all good things, but none of them solve our problem.
We are people in recovery. We are people with addiction - a secondary voice in our minds that can’t be nurtured, or negotiated with (nope, it’s not the inner child!). It suggests USING as a solution to just about everything we feel - whether those feelings are physical (hunger, hormones, etc) or emotional. And where we used to have it in alcohol/drugs - we now see it alive and well in food.
And yet, the tools that worked for drug and alcohol recovery don’t seem to work the same way with food. How can that be? How can we recover from a fatal, progressive addiction only to find ourselves in bondage to cake? How can we put down the vodka and not the potato chips?
Addiction has inherent characteristics that can “jump” from substance to substance - but the object of the addiction varies. And with that variety comes the need for unique tools to solve that particular problem.
That’s why Sober&Hungry is a truly special program. Designed specifically for those who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body with drugs and alcohol, only to find themselves in a “same-but-different” obsession with sugar, snacks, sweets - or simply too much food - One Pound at a Time is a step-by-step curriculum that speaks the language of recovery combined with personalized nutrition and verified coaching techniques.
It’s a one-stop-shop for sober people dealing with the totally unique issue of “food compulsion in sobriety.”
“I have found peace around food for the first time in my entire life. I have healthfully dropped 50+ pounds with Sober&Hungry. And because it doesn’t go against a thing I do in my 12-step program, which is EXTREMELY important to me, I have found a deeper level of spirituality and growth in my life.”
How exactly does OPAAT work?
Great question! Here’s the rundown:
Each Monday starting on January 3, 2022 you’ll receive an online classroom focused on a specific topic (see below for week-by-week breakdown). You’ll have a unique login and dashboard to access each module, and time to complete it at your convenience. You’ll get clear on your weight loss AND recovery goals for the week, create your eating plan for the week, and learn all about the week’s recovery concept and how to apply it.
In addition to the videos, worksheets, and guided food maps you’ll get in the module, each Wednesday I’ll be teaching the topic live via Zoom. You’ll get full acces to me and I stay on these calls as long as it takes to answer every single question.
Each Zoom has a workshop component where you are given time to complete an assignment related to that week’s topic and then receive feedback in real time!
Calls are recorded and replays are available if you can’t make the live call!
You’ll have daily short assignments that keep you focused, on track, and in the solution.
I’ll be watching your assignments and providing feedback when applicable for full accountability and high-touch guidance.
The Breakdown:
Week 1: Addiction and food – overeating voice, how to see it and separate what you want from the self-destruct button of this voice.
Week 2: Physical activators – what triggers overeating voice to go into overdrive? hunger and hormones. Learn about what hunger is, and how to tap into it with a powerful recovery tool. Learn about hormones and how they respond to sugar, flour, salt and other highly-palatable foods and how to use this information to powerfully navigate cravings for these foods.
Week 3: Emotional activators – the other trigger for overeating voice - learn how unprocessed emotion activates overeating voice a powerful tool to see the domino effect emotions / overeating voice / unconscious behavior has in our lives.
Week 4: Solutions – using the information we gather about our emotion lives in Week 3 to problem-solve and become powerfully aligned in thought, word, and behavior.
Week 5: Alt Eats, Off Map Eating – how to navigate holidays, travel, and other situations where we have little control over our food options. How to incorportate treats and non-nutritious foods into our plan without going off the rails.
Week 6: Sustaining – it’s not the starting that’s hard, it’s the sustaining. How to change our relationship with sustaining by moving through the death of the old habit and the (not-so-euphoric) repetition of the new.
Week 7: Willingness-to-practice vs. all-or-nothing thinking – why we don’t “start over” when we stumble with food, and how to view mistakes with a new mindset that create success out of failure.
Week 8: More powerful than food – while we are powerless over our “ism” voice and food existing, we are powerful when it comes to our response to it. How to practice controlling what we can, accepting what we can’t and how knowing the difference makes our goal inevitable.
Is OPAAT right for you?
You might think “Sober and Hungry” says it all, but here’s a bit more for you to consider:
-Your eating is often compulsive or addictive (I’m not here to convince you that you’re an addict! To diagnose yourself, you need to look at your eating plainly. Is it causing you shame, fear and hopelessness? It is damaging your health? Is it interfering with your social, personal, or professional life? Is it an issue that takes up a significant amount of mental and physical energy? Yeah).
-You’ve maintained continuous sobriety from alcoholism and/or drug addiction for at least 1 year. S&H is not affiliated with a specific path to sobriety, and is not sobriety coaching.
-You want to lose weight (food compulsion can show up with other symptoms - this is the one S&H addresses).
-You are ready to do something different about your overeating. This solution will challenge what you think you know about this issue; your willingness to keep an open mind, trust the process, and do the work will be the key to your success.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Will this program work if I identify as food addicted, but I’m not “sober” (I don’t have trouble controlling alcohol)?
OPAAT is designed specifically for people with a previous addiction to drugs/alcohol that are experiencing addiction transfer to food. It assumes an understanding of addiction as a disease, and it also assumes experience overcoming a primary addiction. Except in rare occasions, this program would not be appropriate for you if you don’t have previous sobriety experience.
Again – exceptions exist. If you’d like to explore whether this program would be appropriate for you, please schedule a free call with me to discuss.
How is this different than O.A.?
Many, if not most, OPAAT clients have experience with Overeaters Anonymous, and some remain members through this program.
A common issue that arises for alcoholics who become OA members is “spiritual bypass”, where we use the spirituality - so critical to our sobriety - to avoid unresolved emotional issues and stall the kind of personal development required for the stop-overeating journey.
OPAAT is designed to provide additional tools that don’t oppose the tenants or steps of O.A. but that “fill in the gaps” needed to be fully in charge of our eating without struggle or suppression of our feelings.
What will I eat?
You’ll be guided step by step through what constitutes a healthful plan of eating for you. This culminates in a weekly Food Map; each week, your meals will be planned in advance accompanied by a simple grocery list. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all template; this is a structure where you and a nutritionist fill in the blanks to create a pattern of eating that’s delicious, sustainable, and gives you great results.
If you’re like most OPAAT clients, you likely have a strong sense of what is healthy for you. Most of us have tried so many different weight loss programs, have read so many diet books, and are so interested in the latest and greatest nutrition information – they could be nutritioinsts themselves (I became one, and knew almost all the material in advance!).
The problem isn’t all about healthy eating – the problem is that we can’t stick to even the healthiest plan. For addicts, this inability to stick to healthy eating is less about the food, and more about the mental causes of compulsion. We keep our eating relatiecaly simple, straightforward and healthy while working on the reasons we’ve found it impossible to sustain that way of eatng in the past.
“I wasn’t sure it was possible to stop binging altogether, but I haven’t binged since I started working with S&H. And the scale is down 20+ pounds! I had never tried dealing with my food urges like we did in S&H. It has helped immensely. It has also helped in dealing with urges in my primary recovery program…it was tangible, and it works!”
Hi, I’m Brooke!
I lost over 50 pounds by solving food compulsion caused by addiction transfer, and now I’d like to help you do the same.
I got sober in 2001, but struggled for decades on the weight rollercoaster in sobriety. I found a solution through combining principles of sobriety, nutrition, and coaching techniques into a simple, tangible program. I started using these techniques on my own food struggle in 2015, and have maintained a 50-pound weight loss since then. I founded Sober&Hungry in 2018 and since then have coached over a hundred sober clients through this curriculum – many have lost over 50 pounds themselves.
Even in my darkest days of overeating, I knew there was a solution – one that didn’t limit me to only places where problem foods wouldn’t be served, or that would require super-human strength or endurance, or reinforce black-and-white thinking or abstinence models with food.
I now live as a “non-overeater with overeating voice”. It’s powerful, peaceful, and it works in all situations.
This solution isn’t a quick-fix, a weight loss hack, or a shortcut – it’s just the right tools for the job – and that makes all the difference. I can’t wait to walk you through this curriculum, so you can enjoy trye freedom from obsession with food – and unlock the final piece of the sobriety puzzle!
If you’re Sober and Hungry - this is the last weight loss program you’ll ever need.
Are You Ready?
You’re a click away from changing your life in more ways than just the weight.
If you’re sober and hungry, this is the only program designed specifically for you.
I’m ready to get you results - guaranteed (details when doors officially open!).
Don’t waste another cent on diets or bootcamps trying to get the weight off - they won’t solve the problem.
Together, we will solve it - One Pound At A Time.
This is the good sh*t!
Are you ready?
If you have any questions, email brooke@soberandhungry.com anytime.