carb withdrawal

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Yes, it can happen to you. I know eating sugar and high carb foods made with

flour, corn meal and the like and also fruit can be pleasing and make you feel

good. This is an absolute fact. Carb consumption causes the body to release

opioid chemicals, which dulls pain and makes you feel sleepy and good. It also

increases the serotonin level, a neurotransmitter in the nervous system, which

makes you feel good and less depressed. If you don't think you can get addicted

to this stuff carbs, you are sorely mistaken. I speak as a well intentioned

sugar addict.

You can get hooked on this stuff just like you can get hooked on tobacco and

alcohol. I see you don't believe me yet. Have you ever had a craving for a

drink of wiskey? If so, you know how it can make you feel good just to stop by

the package store and put a six pack or a bottle of Jim Beam in the car and take

it home. You are already smiling, because you know you have the means to feel

good, and you haven't even taken a drink yet. Your craving is already partially

satisfied. How about a cigarette? I know people who have made many a pit run

to the Golden Pantry or the 7/11 to get a pack of cigarettes, and smiling as

they make the purchase, even though it may be four or five in the morning. They

wouldn't even think about waking up in the morning without a pack of cigarettes

by the bed. They know what withdrawal is. They don't like feeling irritable,

fidgity and not being able to think straight. So they take a puff and smile,

because the fix is in.

All of us addicts know what it is like to have an itch you can't scratch. It is

pure torture. Now you are beginning to realize what I mean by addiction. It is

both physical and mental. You can just be hooked on a flavor. Any chocolate

addicts out there?

If you have never had a craving for a candy bar, a cookie, a piece of pie or

cake, then you don't know what I mean. Maybe you don't have a sweet tooth, so

to speak. You might crave salty taste like potato chips, corn chips, popcorn

and the like. You might even frown on those who crave stuff, because you know

you are not addicted, because you only like an extra biscuit or slice of corn

bread or a couple of bowls of popcorn. Cravings for these things can be a sign

of carb addiction.

People get addicted to something, because they tend to like the way it makes

them feel. If you have mental anguish, it takes a lot of things like carbs,

nicotine and alcohol to ease the pain. Once your mind and your body gets use to

easing the discomfort with these foods and drugs you are now dependent on them

both mentally and physically. This dependency signals addiction.

Just like an alcoholic or a tobacco addict, you are now hooked. Your judgement

is now shaded in favor of what you crave. Dependence on alcohol and tobacco can

do bad things to your body, your family, your job, and your community. Likewise

dependence on carbs can do the same. I think you might begin to see what I mean

by now. Just to be sure I will mention a fewthings carb addiction can do for

you. It can make you feel hungry. It can make you fat. It can make you a

diabetic. It can make you have heart attacks. It can make you have cataracts.

It can make you have joint and tendon problems. It can make you have blurred

vision. It can even make you go blind. It can cause you to have a stroke. It

can be the reason you lost a foot or a leg. Just like alcohol and tobacco, carb

addiction can kill you. Make no mistake aboutit ; it can.

When you reduce the amount of carbs you consume daily, it can make you feel

uncomfortable just like reducing or quitting alcohol and nicotine can. When you

are use to running high blood sugar levels of glucose, reducing your carb

consumption will reduce your blood sugar levels. Going from high blood sugar

levels to normal blood sugar levels can produce symptoms of low blood sugar, the

dreaded low blood sugar reaction, Severe craving and hunger, fidgitiness,

irritability, poor judgement and the like. Quitting high carb intake can cause

these symptoms lasting for two or three weeks. If you don't believe me, try it.

Ask any addict after they have quit the bad habits, and all of them will say

they feel better. They will also say I still have the craving, because they

remember well how good it made them feel.