When dealing with addiction, more thinking often ends in better rationalizations for addictive behavior. For that reason, I'm not sure "Thought-Terminating" is

When dealing with addiction, more thinking often ends in better rationalizations for addictive behavior. For that reason, I'm not sure "Thought-Terminating" is inherently a bad thing. Anecdotally, I've seen tons of people fight through different fad diets with no success. They spend tons of time talking about ways to trick their metabolisms, naturalistic arguments about what to eat and not eat, etc. Perhaps they would be more successful if they stopped over-thinking and focussed purely on reducing their portion sizes and increasing their exercise. Again anecdotally, it seems like usually exercise is emphasized along with diet at first, but quickly gets dropped. Within a couple weeks, the fad diet is forgotten as well.