Just a quick comment that I recently read Wendy Solganik's blog post saying that for her (someone who is somewhat prone to binge eating tendencies), the tendency to spend one's free time poring over recipe books and looking at food porn, was very much part of an unhealthy pattern often practiced by people with binge-eating tendencies.
To some extent, I think this applies to me too, and I am not the type of person, either, who benefits from poring over different pictures of lentil soup, or mushrooms and barley, or even big pics of delicious-looking cut-up cantaloupe. It's just the brain going, "FOOD! I LOVE FOOD SO MUUUUUUUCCCCHHHH!" And I'm not sure that a brain that's in luuuuvvvv with food, not just to combat hunger or give the body enough energy to hold body and soul together, is helpful to someone trying to regain their health or their pos relationship with food.
So I will just leave it at that -- some people have no interest in looking at pictures of food all day; others have too much interest in looking at pictures of food, and it may set them up for overconsumption patterns and dicey food choices.
Pop over to Wendy Solganik's blog, if you want to see why she has said what she has said. She and Chef AJ are the only two people who seem to be speaking about the people with food addiction tendencies, and the people with binge eating tendencies, and I DO listen to what they have to say.
A video with the two of them:
https://youtu.be/RE_wNyDjMUY That is just one perspective, and if it doesn't apply to you, please feel free to disregard!!!!