It strikes me that the main psychological problem with weight loss, other than what might be causing it in the first place, is what might be called simply: unconsciousness. That is one eats way too much without thinking about it, without being aware. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen a person (me, too at times) simply shovel fry after fry or chip after chip into their mouth with no real thought as to how many calories they are consuming. It’s as if they had checked out mentally for that moment and had fallen into a kind of trance. It’s as if they are being fed something that is not the fry or chip, something that they seem to need far more than anything else.