NYCBellyBlimp:
It's the connection. When you feel a bloat, or weighed down it is a trigger but when it's gone you're at square one unless the need comes or you see someone who brings that side out.
When you have a connection to food, its different as you do need to eat regardless. In some scenarios, food brings comfort, warm memories, joys of a past life, past love or experience.
It's a slippery slope as over time, like a documentary explained food is love, food is happiness, food is > than sex. Literally spend hours eating and feel inner peace, arousal, bliss.
Hard to fill the void if you feel the need to cut down for health or other reasons, hence slippery slope.
It is a slippery slope and it's easy to waddle down that slope especially when you get to that mindless aspect of this because the euphoria is too great. And in my situation, I know women who are into the sensual aspect of this life so they help me with the acceptance of it all and can be major influences because they totally gave into this love of food and they let the chips fall where they may. My connection now with food is as such that it is what I mostly think about when I am not preoccupied and I have to constantly keep myself from giving totally into the euphoria full time.