@TFURROWS RE: SUGAR
User tfurrows was kind enough to address my previous post on the
struggle with giving up sugar and share a familiar experience[1]
with the stuff:
"...forget how bad things felt at the bottom. Start
to justify small treats here and there... Begin us-
ing the sugar as a reward...
Wow, that is *exactly* how it goes for me and I'm willing to bet
a lot of other folks as well.
*Some* people seem to be able to get away with having a fair
amount of sweets indefinitely. But the rest of us (and it's tak-
en me a long, long time to realize I'm in this group) really can-
not have regular doses of the stuff.
It is *absolutely* an addiction.
From Merriam-Webster:
addiction n.
2. compulsive need for and use of
a habit-forming substance
And the thing that really drives it home, if anyone has never
tried this, is going cold-turkey on sugar: the cravings, the
withdrawal symptoms, the feeling that life would be better if on-
ly you would give in and have a cup of hot chocolate or a bowl of
ice cream...
Under different circumstances, I could just as well be under a
bridge sprawled over a pile of trash with a bunch of guys arguing
over who gets my shoes.
[1]
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~tfurrows/phlog/2019-04-30_reSugar.txt
