Simple, but not easy. Smokers can stop smoking. Drinkers can stop drinking. Gamblers can stop gambling. Over-eaters cannot stop eating. Eating is sort of a p

Simple, but not easy. Smokers can stop smoking. Drinkers can stop drinking. Gamblers can stop gambling. Over-eaters cannot stop eating. Eating is sort of a prerequisite for survival. It's weird that we have this complete blindspot with regards to people with unhealthy relationships with food when we show a lot more compassion for other kinds of addicts. But the things most addicts get addicted to is completely voluntary. Food is one of the few vices that you are required to participate in to some degree. You tell an alcoholic just "to drink less" and you're the asshole. And rightly so. They have a problem. It's best for them to avoid the source. But we find it perfectly acceptable to tell people with food addictions to "eat less". Why is that? So, it is understandable why people would like to find a way that can make it easier. Either a way to make what they have ingested not count, a way to ingest the same amount but get fewer calories from every ounce, etc. And even your advice is wrong. Moving around more doesn't move the needle enough. "You can't outrun your mouth".