Occasional poster here! This is an amazing thread with so many thought-provoking comments.

As a person that, at 54, has been challenged for many years to maintain a healthy weight/lifestyle with varying degrees of success, I continue to be baffled by a couple of things:
- food seems to be the only addiction that others (friends, relatives, even strangers) feel free to judge and comment on. Rarely do I hear comments about smokers, people’s consumption of alcohol or drugs, but it seems okay to comment/judge perceived overeating or unhealthy eating – much like limewave’s earlier comments.
- It’s the only addiction that one has to learn to live with in the sense that you have to continue eating. For example, I quit smoking many years ago. While it was difficult, the situation was straightforward – I quit or I didn’t – I didn’t have to figure out how to have one or two cigarettes and not go off the deep end. While I’m not suggesting that living with any addiction is easy, with food obviously you have to continue to eat to survive. It is a never-ending challenge to satisfy that need without succumbing to cravings, temptation, etc. etc.

Food for thought (pun intended).