Food addiction is like alcohol and drug addiction. It is a disease characterized by preoccupation with food, the availability of food and the anticipation of pleasure from the ingestion of food, obsession with weight and body image. Food addiction involves the repetitive consumption of food against the individuals better judgment resulting in loss of control and preoccupation or the restriction of food. Very often for a food addict, refined sugar, flour and fats become what alcohol is to the alcoholic or cocaine to the cocaine addict.
Trying to cut down on foods the food addict usually have withdrawal symptoms that trigger cravings like the drug or alcohol addict. They can have both physical and emotional withdrawal such as concussion, depression, teary periods and self-hatred which leads to self abuse.

  Food addiction includes such symptoms as:
• food obsession;
• absence of self-control;
• pleasure and comfort created with eating;
• eating results in a cycle of bingeing in spite of the intellectual judgment of the individual or negative consequences;
• using  food creates a physical craving which negates of food power over the person.