Why Do You Keep Struggling With Sugar?

March 29, 2009 ↓ Comments (1)

Swwet Squirrel Why do you keep struggling with sugar cravings? Why is it that you can make it for weeks without anything sweet and then one day you take it up again? Why is it that you keep thinking about sugar when you don’t have it?

I know why. You want to know why?

Because you’re an addict and you are addicted to sugar.

Some people laugh at this idea. Ha ha. Addicted to sugar.

Nobody would rob a bank to pay for drugs if it were in everything we ate and drank and could be purchased at the local convenience store for under a dollar.

People don’t rob banks to pay for their sugar habit because they don’t have to.

Sugar is everywhere and in everything.

So why is it that you can’t get it off your mind?

Because you’re addicted and large corporations know that. They have lots of money to make off your addiction.

Dealers go to play grounds and get kids high for free. Then they charge ‘em out the nose for drugs.

Companies give you sweets for free, or for dirt cheap. Then they sell you the stuff on every single street corner in America.

They lobby to move daylight savings time a few weeks later so that it’s still light on Halloween so that kids can go trick-or-treating and have positive experiences that surround candy.

Large companies aren’t the bad guys though. You’re part of those companies. You buy cookies for your lunch meetings and put bowls of candy in the waiting rooms.

We take our kids out for ice cream whenever they get good grades or win a game. Sweet cake is a standard part of our right-of-passage life rituals.

So that’s why you just can’t shake the sugar. It’s in everything. It’s given to you when you don’t want it and when you do. And when you don’t eat it, it’s still advertised everywhere.

I knew an alcoholic who had been clean and sober for over ten years. He was going through some stressful stuff and I was surprised when he said, “It took everything I had to keep myself from going to the bar today.”

But as a sugar addict I have a clue that addictions don’t go away, they get managed.

So stop asking yourself why you can’t shake the desire for sweets and start asking yourself how you’re going to manage your addiction.

Because you are an addict and it’s not funny.

We’re addicted to sugar. It’s an ongoing struggle that never goes away but it can be managed if you want to learn how to do so.

Comments · Why Do You Keep Struggling With Sugar?

Bevel
Apr 10, 2009

I lived in a residential center for 3 weeks last year after I broke my hip. I had no desire for sweets even though they served them with meals. I ate them in the ambulance on the way up and I ate them on the way home afterward, but not while I was there. How can I do that again? What was different about being there?
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