"He was trying to kick cocaine, which had taken over his life in Los Angeles, destroying his memory and producing round-the-clock hallucinations. I felt like I'd fallen into the bowels of the earth, he later said. Obviously, there are major differences between a life-threatening drug addiction and the struggles of an overfed restaurant critic, although my former life could get downright hallucinatory at times."
"I needed to eat more of my meals in a place that wasn't filled with temptation and where nobody ever said no, least of all me. I had to replace all the habits that were slowly killing me with new ones that might keep me alive. The only way to do this, I knew, was to stay home while I taught myself how to eat again. If I was going to clean up, I needed to start with the place where I lived."
"Lisa R. Young, an adjunct professor of nutrition at New York University and a nutrition consultant, tells clients that the success or failure of any diet is largely determined by what's in the kitchen. Willpower is overrated, Dr. Young said. It doesn't exist, really. What's in your house is what you're going to eat. By focusing on healthy foods that you could add to your plate, you'll end up eating more of those and then you'll cut out the cookies, just naturally."
David Bowie moved to West Berlin in 1976 to break a cocaine addiction, using a change of environment to recover. One person similarly transformed his Brooklyn apartment into a controlled space to relearn eating habits, staying home to avoid temptation and to replace destructive eating routines with healthier ones. Nutrition expert Lisa R. Young emphasizes that diet success depends largely on what is in the kitchen, arguing that willpower is overrated. Keeping healthy, accessible foods and removing tempting items leads to natural increases in good choices and reductions in sweets without relying on conscious self-restraint.
Read at cooking.nytimes.com
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