What about surgery?

First thing they will tell you is no sugar and no bread. Ok.

Second thing they will tell you is that it only works if you join and attend a support group. Most people are back to where they were (except disfigured and scarred by surgery) within seven years.

Bottom line: you have to live as if you were strictly part of OA-HOW and they also want $14,000 or so from you.

Try OA HOW first, see if you can handle it for a year. If you can, then weight loss surgery is for you, if you still need it. If you can't, the surgery isn't going to work for you, just screw you up really badly. The surgery is as bad for you, or worse, than being fat. That isn't much of an improvement.

• http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/faq.htm
  
• http://wordpress.com/tag/oahow/
• http://oahow.squarespace.com/1a-oa-how-questions-ii/
• http://www.oa.org/faqs_page2.html#18
• Recipes and eating plans
• www.foodaddictsanonymous.org -- the guys who agree with Gary
  Taubes and science. Still not reconciled, guess because they are right, kind of.
  

Harder to find than I thought. At least OA HOW has reconciled with OA these days even if food addicts hasn't.

Try them for a year, figure out if you want HOW or FA, and see how it holds together. Costs a heck of a lot less than surgery.