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Addiction & Recovery

Chainfire

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4. I love sugar too!

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Sat Mar 19, 2022, 03:42 PM

Mar 2022

I always have. The older I get the more I indulge myself. Something else will kill me before the candy will.

A little off subject, but related; I have noticed, anecdotally of course, that people who crave sugar also crave alcohol. I am a long term (25 years) dry recovering alcoholic. (I never went to any meetings, so I may have just been a drunk instead of an alcoholic) I have seen the connection too many times to blow it off as coincidence. I wonder if there has ever been a study that links the two addictions, or if I am just full of it....

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An addiction rarely discussed..Yes, I have it ."SUGAR" in COOKIES AND CANDY..Should we discuss it? [View all] Stuart G Mar 2022 OP

I've heard quitting sugar is harder than giving up cigarettes. MLAA Mar 2022 #1

I believe there was a study with rats a number of years ago: which was fierywoman Mar 2022 #6

Try Monkfruit Sweetener DanieRains Mar 2022 #2

Keto diet. After a couple of weeks I lost interest in sweet things. Ocelot II Mar 2022 #3

I did keto for a couple years blueinredohio Mar 2022 #10

I love sugar too! Chainfire Mar 2022 #4

I think it has been shown that people who give up alcohol then start eating more sugar. fierywoman Mar 2022 #7

On my Reddit alcohol forums, person after person talks of sugar cravings irisblue Mar 2022 #8

So .. basically you were going keto? Cool! fierywoman Mar 2022 #9

Not so much as formal keto, I suspect I was some vitamin/mineral/nutrient I was deficient in. irisblue Mar 2022 #11

lots of good information on subject..... markie Mar 2022 #5