Struggle with junk food addiction...

[Ultralight]

A couple of thoughts - if one of the grocery stores near you has the service where they pack your groceries and you pick them up, use that to avoid temptation.

Oddly, I behave really well at the grocery and buy plenty of good things and few bad things, usually I buy only very good things.

the second suggestion requires buying things - i’m Sorry. Buy several nesting boxes with combination locks. Put your car keys inside the innermost box every time you come home, and on each lid write your best ideas for alternate snacks/meals or actions to junk food or other messages you find motivating. The time it takes to get to your keys may help you get through the craving. Also, the annoyance might make you choose to take your bike more often.

This is an interesting idea. I was talking with my coworker who is also a junk food junkie. He was talking about how his boss in his department got gastric bypass. He is still out of work and recovering. My coworker, "Sam," said: "If you can't do things yourself you have to outsource the discipline. And that is what gastric bypass does. So I will probably have to do it in a few years or so too."

Ideally I would like to cultivate a strength from within that overcomes this addiction.

And to be realistic: When I am on a rampage a handful of locks and maxims will not stop me, not even close. On a binge I am a total, wild-eyed maniac.