Excellent post! Younare so right about eating sweets-carbs to relieve stress is like pointing a gun at yourself.  I’ve struggles for most of my adult life with sugar-carb cravings. I was really good 2/3 of the time, but then would have these 2-3 days binges that just got worse over time. I’ve been searching for a blog like this. So many take the just-eat-fruit-or-whole-grains all of which are sugat to me now. Thanks for yhe blog. i will be reading your past entries to see ow you managed. I finally made the decision to stay away from any and all sugars for I know I will never feel free and happy if I don’t.

Hi Digby. I still eat fruit. What do you eat if you avoid it?

I only eat only berries, very rarley something made with apple, and low starch veg; it takes very little carb to trigger binges. It’s been hard for me to accept that I can’t have just a little without getting sucked into a binge.

That stinks that fruit does that to you.

I believe ther is a continuum in most things and that bell curve plays out predictably. I have family members who will never be affected by carbs, and a few like me who are seriously addicted to them, with most somewhere in between. What really made me finally accept that I was dealing with something beyond will-power was that I was very successful in every other aspect of my life, had plenty of will power, except for this one thing, sugar, which really got a lot worse about ten years ago as my work stress increased, but my sleep was halved; a recipe for sugar cravings.
(Sorry about the typos; I’m still learning to type on this ipad.)

This is a great post—especially the insight about stress still existing even after you dive into a dessert…or like Digby mentioned, a whole binge of sweets. I have the same problem, and have found that for now, I need to stay away from fruit until my body repairs from the damaged I’ve done to it through sweets and carbs. I look forward to reading many more entries. Thanks, David.