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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2124926" data-attributes="member: 41816">I don’t find alcohol addictive.  Never have.Never found drugs addictive.  So far.  Though at one time I could have easily developed a pain killer ‘habit’.I don’t find ‘carbs’ addictive.  You could surround me with mounds of rice, bananas, green vegetables, sweet fruit, cheese wotsits and fruit juices, and I wouldn’t twitch.I do, however, experience physical cravings after certain types of high carb foods.  Milk chocolate (but not dark), wheat and some grains, and recently potato.Am I ‘addicted’?  Nope.  I don’t think so.  I don’t feel helpless against the tide of carbs.  I can eat all of them in the certain knowledge that there will be consequences (cravings from milk choc and psoriasis, cravings and joint pain from wheat and potato).  Also raised blood glucose, of course.  So if I eat them, I accept the consequences and deal with them.  Then I choose whether to compound those consequences by doing it again.  I rarely eat any of them.When I was in the full grip of RH i had bg swings, emotional swings, carb cravings, sugar highs and all the trappings of what I thought was ‘addiction’.  Felt depressed, dreadful and helpless.  Turns out all I needed to do was cut the trigger foods out over 3 days or so (to minimise carb flu-type shock to the system).  That simply and steadily reduced all those symptoms.  The depression lifted with stable bgs and Vit D supplements.I really don’t equate that experience with drug or alcohol addiction.  No DTs, shakes, sweats, clammy tremors or similar.So yes, I can see how carbs may be addictive for some people (just as some people get addicted to a whole range of chemicals and emotions and sensations - like ‘runners high’) but I definitely disagree with the suggestion that carbs have some kind of blanket addictive lure that we are helplessly brainwashed into.  No.  We are conscious thinking beings capable of making  conscious decisions on what we put in our mouths.</blockquote>

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