I'm opening a new chapter in FatFitnessNerd, focusing on food addiction. I will still write about fitness and other topics, but I want to return to something that was successful for me early on: treating food with an addiction model. Knowing that all that it would take is one candy to knock me into a months-long binge of sugar and weight gain. This is in fact what happened after a bout of Covid.
I'm currently reading this book, and will report back with progress. I feel optimistic that treating sweets and refined carbs this way (maybe also nuts and very sweet fruits) has worked for me in the past and can work now.
A workable description of what addiction is is that it is the continuation of a behavior despite clear consequences. I have been walking around with a prediabetic blood sugar. Why did I spend a week eating cake at lunch?
