Passionat Attachment

If you wish to find out whether you are addicted to
the passion of gluttony (or any other, for that matter),
you can find it out in the following manner. If food
(or anything else) captures your thought so that you
cannot resist it, you are a glutton. If you are not
possessed by it and partake freely of all kinds of
food to the extent your body requires it, you are not
a glutton. . . passionate attachment to anything should
always be avoided, for it does harm to the soul.

- St. Barsanuphius -