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Just like an alcoholic has the problem, that he can't just stop after a beer or two.
It's the same mechanism.

Everything you use to cope with emotions can produce that.
Like nicotine itself isn't hard to quit - not much of a physical addiction. But as one used cigarettes as little self rewards and uncomfortable situations, you can't just give up your tool to manage your emotions.

The only way out is to face those emotions and solve the original issue. Else you'll just be hopping through different "helpers"

Edit: maybe to give an even more extreme example:
Cocaine doesn't produce any physical addiction, but because it gives you the feeling of being awake and you suddenly can handle the stress, you'll fell completely lost and alone without it in those situations.
That's why trigger situations are a thing.

With food, just like cigarettes, it's even worse, because you use them for good and bad times.
So the association with feeling good is much harder to break.
As we need food, this addiction is probably even worse, because you can't just stop eating all together and face your emotions. So you're daily tempted with it.
I personally can't relate with overeating/"food addiction", but having spent a month tapering opiate teas (which I used to still be able to work during my burnout), I understand the feeling of constantly looking for an excuse to still do a bit more - just today...
Because this day was especially bad and I desperately need the crutch, or especially nice and I feel like I wanna celebrate it somehow.

That’s true for a certain percentage but misses part of the point here. Once an alcoholic has successfully detoxed, it is possible and highly encouraged that they do not partake any alcohol going forward.

That simply isn’t possible with obesity as humans require food to survive. So this is where the analogy with alcoholism breaks down as it is never possible for the obese person to be the equivalent of “sober.” Instead they have to learn moderation which is conceptually a different challenge than becoming a teetotaler.

This is factually incorrect. Source: me stopping drinking.

This is highly dependent on so many factors its basically not true. If they're heavy alcoholics who shake when not going with a drink for a few hours then its likely, but not guarunteed, for them to need assistance to quit cold turkey

That's what happened to me. I'm overweight myself and my doctor is a wheight expert too and In my case I was able to change my life with depression treatment but also with some hormonal replacement.

At least he knows what his biases are

What am I telling exactly?!

You took this to a whole other discussion. Yes there are some people that think fat "should be beautiful" and those people are fooling thenselfs more than the others.

But this is not the majority a neither has been pushed "for years". This began with the woker culture trying to humanize fat people exactly because of how bad people are treated just because they are fat. But I can tell you I don't know any fat person that thinks like that. Like most (not all) very skinny people have some eating disorder, most (not all) obese peoole have some eating disorder, this can be in consequence of depression, addictive personality or even in conquencence of medication that they need

That is why is so important to no judge someone without knowing why they are in this situation.

I think that what you will realize if you do it is that other tastes become far more pronounced and you start to enjoy the medley of tastes that are inherent in food. And feeling better all of the time is a far bigger reward than a salty, sweet, oily taste just some of the time. At least that's how it's been in my life as I've improved on this continuum.