Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.
Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.