@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