I asked how to differentiate food addiction from people who over eat. People who over eat can go on a diet successfully and lose weight. Food addicts, on the other hand, experience withdrawal symptoms upon cessation of addictive foods. That doesn't mean that a food addict doesn't use food to soothe feelings because they do,but that isn't the cause of the food addiction which is an inherited disorder. We remove addictive substances such as refined and processed foods and alcohol.
All addictive substances start out as plants.
Cocaine, heroin and alcohol go through a very very extreme refinement process that refine them down to the addictive element. One of the most highly addictive foods is sugar which goes through exactly the same number of refinement stages as heroin. The food plan in From the First Bite focuses on the elimination of the addictive triggers. It spreads the meals out over the day to keep metabolism level and manages volume by weighing and measuring food. This is not a weight loss diet and that is not the goal.