Food porn on instagram or other places online isn't inescapable. Just don't go looking for it. Don't follow those accounts, unsub from muckbangers on YT, stop googling fast food restaurants and poring over their menus. It isn't that difficult, these actions won't give or deprive her belly and dopamine receptors of their fix.
As for the rest, just a general consensus among Kiwis here: how long have you known that processed foods and fast foods, inherently or by additives, cause people to crave, eat more and possibly become addicted (to the extent one could become addicted to food, I would prefer to phrase it as opt to eat processed foods and restaurant meals to the exclusion of homemade, but that's klunky). I'm raising my hand here, anyone else? As a kid, I liked the little package of doritos way more than the carrot and celery sticks or even the sandwich. So kids know there's just something about processed food.
Processed food is all Chantal eats. Even when she makes "homemade" bbq chicken, she uses processed BBQ sauce as a base of her own. Chantal is hooked on high fructose corn syrup, sodium, saturated fats, artificial flavorings and all the crap that goes into processed food, fast food, fast casual, and most restaurant food. I think everyone is hooked on processed food to some extent, even just the convenience factor. Who has time to make sauces from scratch, not use canned tomatoes? Make oven fries from potatoes instead of grabbing a bag of frozen ones? Not me, but what else does chantal have to do?
Chantal doesn't have to deprive herself of a single thing besides processed food and restaurant food. Does she want a burger and fries? Make it from scratch, learn to make mayo and make her own burger sauce. Learn to make her own bbq sauce and make bbq wings w/o any processed additives. Her main complaint is restriction, well if she makes everything herself, she doesn't have to restrict herself and she'll lose weight, because it takes time and effort to make everything she likes to eat from scratch, time she won't be sitting on her ass eating. Seems pretty simple to me, and as a bonus, she'll be cutting out all of those artificial ingredients she claims junk food/fast food puts in specifically to make people addicted. Problem solved.
This isn't the answer she wants, and not something she'll ever do. She'd rather be coddled and work the addict angle than do difficult things. She can't have it both ways. Food addict? Go to Foodaholics Anon or whatever it's called. She doesn't want to do that. She doesn't want to go into serious therapy. She doesn't want to do anything but use addiction as an excuse. #lazinessaddiction #lazinessrecovery #supportthegluttons