How to beat addictions to food?

[YinYoga]

I have beaten 3 addictions in my time. It is 40 years since I smoked, 6 years since I drank alcohol and I have even given up caffinated tea and coffee. But what the hell can I do about my food addictions? I lost my excess weight on Mounjaro but went too far and have now been refused a prescription for a maintainence dose. Since when I have been eating uncontrollably and gaining weight rapidly. I am 2 stone heavier than my lightest weight and gained 8lb last week alone.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is just like I was with alcohol. One drink and I couldnt stop. But I cant stop eating altogether so what do i do?

I have been following the hbd (human being diet) by Petronella Ravenshear and for the first time in my life I’ve managed to stick to an eating plan (don’t like the word diet but really that is what it is for the first few weeks!). It’s quite a strict protocol particularly around not snacking between meals but also is low carb and not processed foods. It sounds tough which the first fortnight are but actually I have liked having some strict rules to follow. It’s enabled me to switch off the food noise a bit and taken away the mental headspace by knowing exactly what you can and cannot do. For someone where carbs and all things sugary have always been difficult to control this has massively helped. A bit like with alcohol and having none or one is never enough as you’ve already mentioned!

Thank you for your reply. The HBD is one diet I havent tried so I will have a read tonight. I agree that it will probably need to be something very prescriptive for me to have any hope of sticking to it. Crazy that I can only do it if it is really hard and punishing.
There seem to be a number of products for sale on FB claiming to be a natural glp-1 or similar. I am guessing that these are snake oil - unless anyone knows differently?

I can’t give any practical advice because I’m absolutely struggling with the same problem. I quit booze and caffeine over 11 years
ago and in general I eat pretty healthily, but there are times when I can really go to town on the junk food. Ugh. Just wish I could leave it behind like the alcohol, but there’s always something that pulls me back in.
I keep plugging away and I believe I will get there. I have to. It’s just so boring doing the same backslide over and over.

there’s a fb group called Friends doing HBD that might give you a bit of an idea of it.