Looking for Support

Hey everybody....I am new to this forum. My name is Dave and I have the same affliction as you guys do. I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic (my sobriety date is November 10, 1987) but, as some people say, my food addiction has been like switching deck chairs on the Titanic. I traded one hopelessly debilitating, not-a-moment of relief, set of circumstances for another. I have tried hardcore 12-step food recovery programs, but have only had limited effectiveness. I treat it more like a "diet club" which although they say it isn't, every meeting that's a big part of the conversation. I am not bashing the program, it is effective for some, but punitive if you slip (can't talk in meetings, must answer the same questions over and over).
Some of my best successes have when I have had people around to help. I currently live and work alone and live in a self-isolating suburb of Los Angeles, 30 miles south (and 2 hours by car on a good day) so I spend far too much time alone moving from my work desk to my couch and living a kind of Groundhog's Day existence, resolve in the morning, dignified eating until 5pm and then when the lights go down and I am "finished with work", the binge-o-tecque opens for business and usually stays open until I fall into a painfully dazed food coma until around 1 or 2. On weekends I skip the formality of resolve and dignity and "completely check out" almost every Sunday.
I see that there are a lot of folks who get on here the day they find the forum (like me), tell their tale of woe, get a few responses and then disappear into the ether. Are they all all better now? Would that be a safe bet that once they start their initial post they are struck by an eternal lightning bolt of sanity and they are all better?
Ha!

I think most of us continue to struggle, even after we make our first post. I did. If someone is at a point where they have broken the "spell", I don't think they would make a first post or seek out forums.

I wish we had more support here, but the numbers need to come up.

Otter.