Quelklef

milk consumer

girly but not a girl

name-color: #C09


i'm definitely addicted to sugar. and sometimes i eat it and it doesn't even taste good. but sometimes i eat sugar and it does taste good. and yeah, of course it does, it's not like humans would get addicted to something that tastes bad[1]

but SOMETIMES i eat sugar and it doesn't just taste good but it also feels great, in my body. chocolate chip pancakes in particular (also juice, sometimes). eating choc pancakes can feel like i'm restoring my soul. my body craves another bite, not just my head & mouth.

i find this confusing because i generally trust how my body feels towards things (not so much my head & mouth), but i also know that refined sugar is terrible for the body. so what does it mean that my body craves it ...?

but tonight i was like ... is this just an extension of "of course it tastes good, it's addictive"? is my "body yearning" just "addictive thing feels good to consume" (more news at 11) but stronger?

curious if anyone has experiences around this

[1]: would we ...?


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in reply to @Quelklef's post:

i do get sugar cravings sometimes too. that seems fairly normal to me unless you've been on a strict no-sugar diet for a while.

it may be an addiction if ur always craving sugar. that might happen when you've been eating a lot of processed sugars. i think the sign for addiction is needing it to feel normal, not being able to ignore cravings at all. satisfying a craving normally is on its own neutral i think.

(not an expert on any of this, just speaking with regards to some of my own experiences with addiction in general)

i wouldn't say i'm always craving sugar, but i'm definitely consistently craving sugar, and in the habit of eating it in ~large amounts

i use the term "addicted" a touch loosely since sugar isn't really a neutral substance