Part of what drives my "food addiction is real" mission is the need/want to be smarter than everyone else. (No, I'm not proud of it, but it is true.) So why, then, do I get so much pleasure when I hear or see other voices saying essentially the same things that I am? It should ruin it, but doesn't.

Here's a post from wowdewow, a British site, that clearly understands the issue. beginning with the headline, "Fat clamp." It refers to the intention of the National Health Service to greatly increase funding for lap-band surgery because of the costs that widespread obesity levies on society. Wowdewow quotes a lap-band patient:

“The days that are good are when I can eat sensibly, [but] I don’t have a band round my brain so my food addiction is still there. I think about food morning, noon and night. I do have aftercare but it is still very hard to think that there is no cure for my head.”

And this is from a woman who has gone from 350 to 154 pounds. Awesome change, yet incomplete nevertheless.

The writer, unnamed, adds, "Here’s a thought: Obesity can’t be cured by fitting a gastric band so how about addressing the issues that caused the obesity in the first place?"

Yes. How about that?