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That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.