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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I sympathize with you.  My spouse doesn't get it at all and doesn't understand.

Processed food/sugar addiction is really so hard.

In most environments people give you a hard time for restricting junk foods and don't understand that it is like alcoholism or drug addiction.  Constantly on your mind.  One oreo is too much and the entire package is not enough.  Would you leave bottles of vodka in your house if your spouse was an alcoholic?

I had a therapist when I was in my 20s and very thin and fit tell me that I was too vain to ever get fat when I tried to talk to her about my food issues and my binge eating.  Well, jokes on her sadly as I am 20lbs over weight in my 50s b/c metabolism and loss of the "selfcontrol" battle.

Sticking to a low carb/ atkins/ south beach style diet and practicing time restricted eating (closing the kitchen at 7pm and not eating again until around 9 or 10am) has worked best for me for years at a time.  In the Whole 30 world they talk about certain foods where the wheels come off and I have experienced that -it's like relapsing and going on a bender.  [/quote]

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