Addicted to eating

There are actually many things you can do about this. There are support groups like overeaters annonymous. There are books like When Food is Love by Geneen Roth. Or you can read up on Internal Family Systems to heal that part of you that seeks fulfillment from food. You can also seek therapy to get to the pain that you are seeking to cover up with food. Possibly seek medical attention - could be a hormone or thyroid issue. Could be a food allergy. I know there are certain foods and over the counter meds that trigger me to binge. Or it could be multiple problems.

I used to be an emotional eater and it got worse as I entered perimenopause. Therapy cured my binging and hormones fixed my pms sugar cravings. PM sleep remedies cause me to binge - I no longer take those. I've lost the weight and kept it off for many years now.

Seriously, just go get some drugs. It's far easier than actually doing something.

I was on one medication and I gained about 20 pounds in 1-2 months. I felt exactly as described in the OP - everything was delicious and I looked forward to eating. Apparently this was because the drug is a 5-HT2c antagonist, and that somehow stimulates appetite. I stopped taking that drug and switched to one that increases serotonin across the board, thereby having the exact opposite effect of a 5-HT2c antagonist. My appetite dropped dramatically and I lost all of that weight in 1-2 months. Never underestimate the power (and danger) of drugs. The miracle weight loss drug is called moclobemide. It's a weak MAO-A inhibitor given for depression. A lot of people have also reported weight loss when taking bupropion, another antidepressant.

The alternative is to eat a mostly vegetarian diet. As any stoner will tell you, most drugs come from plants. Marijuana, cocaine, and heroin are all drugs from plants. What people forget is that all plants contain drugs or other chemicals that have psychotropic effects. This is why plants often taste bad - humans have evolved to know that drugs taste bad. Most drugs are weak organic bases, so they have a bit of a bitter taste. Any plant that has a very strong taste that is not sugary likely contains a lot of drugs. Look for the most extreme tasting foods and that's where you'll find the most drugs.
-garlic
-onions
-green leafy vegetables

As with any other drugs, use common sense. Garlic and onions are actually poisonous. If you use meth head logic and go on an all garlic diet, you can expect to die or become very sick. Other animals like cats and dogs can die from eating a single clove of garlic.

It's either a dopamine stimulant addiction you get from things like cheese, meat, chocolate, diet sodas, starches(in the short term). OR You're chasing after the sedative effects of serotonin you get from starches like baked wheat products.... You're bread and baked snack foods, and sugary foods.... Anything really that trips up the insulin response and stimulates the sedative effects of an insilin crash, like a lot of cookies at once.

There is a slight chance you might have depression or bipolar disorder like I do and find yourself over eating to help yourself deal with high stress that comes before the crash of depression where you have to pick yourself back up. Either way, it is depression or more exactly a lack of dopamine or serotonin you're self medacating with foods.

Before you go running to the doctor or one of the self help cults I would cut out stimulants like caffeine, any diet pills or drugs that give you "pep", and anything like aspirin, diet cokes, tea, and such for a few days to see how you feel with a week of better sleep. Caffeine in the short term helps make you feel alert but too much a day or even just a little with a heavy sleep debt will make you eat more refuel the insilin pump for caffeine. Caffeine makes muscles run through their energy supples (sugars) faster, it can't give you energy.

If that doesn't work and you're still reaching for more food when you reall don't want to eat any more, a classic sign of the anxiety-depression type. I would have you take 500-1000mg of taurine a day, taurine wich is like $3 for a bottle of 50 500mg tabs. Taurine helps stimulate dopamine much better than it's derivitive phenylalanine, the diet soda junkies feel good chemical found in aspertame.

Now dopamine is only going to wind you up and make you feel good without being a speedy high, it's more of the high you get with something like facebook you don't want to put down. If taurine doesn't work you might want to consider Tryptophan or 5-HTP in small doses to stimulate serotonin and help calm you down taken at night before bed.

But again I have to go back to depression because I have it, my family has it, and I've worked with others who have it pretty bad and don't know the warning signs when first appear. All of a sudden uncontrollable overeating or a sudden lack of appetite is useally the warning signs you're body is stressed and a black hole of depression or fire storm of anxiety is on it's way once your self preservation tactics can't hold them back. You should try working on any areas of you life that may be wearing on you before you blame it on will power or a problem with food. You know lonliness will also get to you, there's a reason cages animals die off very quickly..... I also hear it's worse for you than smoking or obesity.