The Fatty Chronicles

I was reading in this month's Ensign (available here) about putting off the natural man. Wow. What an appropriate subject for me! It gave me a thought I'd never heard of before, and yet helped me to understand a great deal about myself.

Elder Melvin J. Ballard (not Russell M.) said that "all the assaults that the enemy of our souls will make to capture us will be through the flesh, because it is made up of the unredeemed earth, and he has power over the elements of the earth. The approach he makes to us will be through the lusts, the appetites, the ambitions of the flesh."

That statement right there has helped me more than anything else I've ever heard about addiction (mine being to food).

Any thoughts to add?