An addiction is a recurring compulsion to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual's health, mental state or social life. The term is often reserved for drug, alcohol and nicotine addictions but is also applied to other compulsions such as compulsive overeating.
 
Kicking these habits constitutes a dramatic change, but the change need not occur in a dramatic way. So when it comes to addiction treatment, the most effective approaches rely on the counterintuitive principle that less is often more. Successful treatment places the responsibility for change squarely on the individual and acknowledges that positive events in other realms may jump-start change.

People change when they want it badly enough and when they feel strong enough to face the challenge, not when they're humiliated or coerced. An approach that empowers and offers positive reinforcement is preferable to one that strips the individual of agency. These techniques are most likely to elicit real changes, however short of perfect and hard-won they may be.

By PsychologyToday.com

 

Boner,

Very important message to people who suffer from food addiction. The desire to change. With WLS that often simply means being willing to time food intake well. Hard meat, veggies and other low-energy density, high volume foods have to come first.

Brings to mind a Science Daily article one low energy density foods. Science Daily is always a good read, particularly their diet, fitness and exercise stuff:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815130413.ht m

Best Wishes,

Dave