Agreed. It's odd considering that people have no difficulty accepting that alcoholics have a permanently altered relationship with booze. Given that ex-fatties

Agreed. It's odd considering that people have no difficulty accepting that alcoholics have a permanently altered relationship with booze. Given that ex-fatties still have to eat, my idea would be to have the same meal every day, liquidized and diluted with as much water as possible, and to take no pleasure from consuming it. (Pleasure can be found elsewhere, e.g. in meaningful work.) >For instance, after several days or weeks, people on strict fasts report not feeling hungry any longer. That is true in my experience (I once fasted for 15 days). In a fast there is opportunity for renewal of brain tissue: http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909%2811%2900052-X?switch=standard http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909%2811%... Ofc, this approach won't work if the fast is too short (it takes other tissues several weeks/months to renew themselves, e.g. skin = 6 weeks). So some limited food intake is necessary. Also won't work if the subject develops, say, a cocaine or porn habit to replace food.