Are you a food addict? How can you tell?

I finally accepted (could tell) that I was a food addict when......

I would eat a huge plate of food and as I got to the last few bites I would be struggling to clean the plate even though I was full just because it tasted soooo good!  

 wondering if any one believes that it's possible to wind up obese and have weight loss surgery and not be a food addict. I just don't think I am one. I think all people make themselves feel better sometimes with food--it's just how often that is the question.

I believe it! I'm not a food addict either. I absolutely don't feel that all obese people are food addicts.

My obesity stemmed from a problem with metabolism, appetite and a broken satiety cue. I was starving all the time and never got full. If you were thirsty all the time and needed to drink a bunch of water, would you be addicted to liquid? If you had a lung disorder and needed extra oxygen, would you be addicted to air? For me, my interaction with food was no different.

Fortunately, surgery seems to have fixed the part of my metabolism that was broken. This proved to me that I personally was never a food addict.

Jenna, *I* could have written this same post. Pre-op, always starving. Post-op, normal hunger. I LOVE my DS!!!

As for the people who say they realized they were food addicts when they realized that they thought about dinner while having lunch---do you still do that, as post-ops? I sure do, because I PLAN my meals in order to get enough protein. I don't think that makes me an addict, just someone with an eye on her health.

I totally agree with this post!

Since my surgery, I have to MAKE myself eat at times (probably 2- 4 times a week. ) so either the DS cured my addiction or I never had one in the first place. 
 
Michele 

I realized I was a food addict when I would lay in bed at night and plan all of my next days meals, and they weren't wholesome, they were high carb nightmares.  What really scares me is that I am doing it again.

I guess I look at it this way, how many people who eat normally have weight loss surgery?

Steve

Me.  I routinely ate at or below 1500 calories as a pre-op.  I was a pesco vegetarian, I didn't eat junk food, I saw nutritionists, trainers, specialists of every variety.  They all threw their hands up in the air and said they just didn't understand it.

My metabolism was broken.  I wasn't a glutton.

I do not meet any of the criteria in your questions as a food addict.

......when one day at work we had a meeting (in our conference room) and the boss had ordered pizza.  I had one piece (so as not to look like I ate alot) and then completely obsessed about the pizza that was left over - for the remainder of the meeting - and I wasn't even hungry, physically, anymore.  In fact, I later realized I had no idea what the meeting was even about.