This is incredibly underrated. Basically I lost weigth by focusing on this first. then exercising became easier.
YMMV, but one thing that helped me control food intake was meditation, for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety.
My best tip for not eating junk food: Don’t buy it. It’s so much easier to eat chicken and rice when you don’t have a bag of Doritos on standby.
> over-eating is a response to anxiety
It's more complicated than one cause. Overweight people have an absurd appetite and/or lack of satiation either by being overweight (self-reinforcing) / metabolic dysfunctions, from genetics, and/or from side-effects of medications.
100%. We use food as entertainment. To get a dopamine hit from fats and carbs.
For most of human history, food was scarce. We evolved to get huge dopamine hits from food. Our brain sees starving as a danger. It's only post WWII that food became abundant.
Now those signals work against us.
Not always. Sometimes things are just tasty.