Sugar addiction

thought the IBS and memory loss part of this was interesting, has anyone heard this before?

http://health.yahoo.net/rodale/PVN/10-tactics-for-overcoming -sugar-addiction

Hey girl, its been awhile.    Thought about you and Ms Pink a few weeks back as I was passing through your town.  I'll give you a call if I'm ever stopping. 

As for sugar addiction and IBS?  I know nothing about IBS and thankfully I'm not a sugar addict.  However, I've spoken to many sugar addicts and sugar is like the original crack. Even sugar substitutes are addictive.  Its that craving for sweets.  Fat or thin, most Americans know it well. 

Its interesting how the memory goes under so many seemingly unrelated cir****tances.    I guess when the body is out of balance the mind must be out of balance also.   Moderation in all things is easier said than done. 

count your blessings cause it's nothing nice.  I swear I can go ALL DAY without eating and I never get hungry, but I can almost always be enticed by something sweet if it's offered especially at PMS time.  Sucks cause I know it's the key to loosing my belly.  I think now that I see it has effects on memory it may help me ease back though cause I can't afford to forget **** else!  I swear I'm such a spaz these days.

Thank you for this article. This is me to a T. I have many of those negative side effects and the first year after my bypass I would not eat anything over 7 grams of sugar. Now I push the envelope since I know I don't dump. If there was a rehab for sugar addicts I would be in there and probably flipping tables and ready to choke someone because that's how addicted I am. Actually I feel that I'm addicted to food period. It's truly scarey because it's a slippery slope and I don't want this surgery to be in vain. If this is how it feels for an alcoholic and drug addict, I understand their craving and it's sad to want something at any cost but sometimes I want a piece of cheesecake no matter what.

isn't it AWFUL?  Just yesterday a friend called me and said "what are you doing?"...my reply was "watching TV and thinking about cookies"  She laughed but that **** aint funny cause I wasn't even lying!  Of course later I ran my ass to the farmers market and bought some cookies. 

I feel you though.  I'm probably more than 1/2 my size and people don't get when I say I feel like a failure.  I say that because I know that I've held onto some old habits and could be further along if not for that.  I don't really dump either and I pu**** as well.  One day at a time I guess.

The "pop ups" from this article were more interesting to me QT