Lust as a tool for growth.

Rav Noach Weinberg ztl from a Shiur on Hashem Echad

Hashem told us to love him B'Chol L'vavcha. This means with our lust for bodily pleasures and our desire for meaning. The way to become Godly is to turn our strong bodily lust away from physical desires and to use the power of lust to pursue spiritual good. Rav Weinberg ztl said that the reason that Hashem gave us these strong bodily urges is so that we understand what it means to truly long for something and then we can take these feelings and harness them for good.

Those of us on OA has felt these longings for food and now we are learning to use these desires for good.