Seems like the authors of the carb-addict's diet have just been validated. Since the creation of the diet, experts have criticized it, claiming that there's no such thing as a carb-addict.

Now it seems there is. Or at least a simple carb addict.

And it really is an addiction. While the basic chemistry is not the same as a crack-addiction, for instance, it stimulates the exact same regions of the brain that control cravings.

In nature there is never an overabundance of food for an entire lifetime. Now add that you dont have to physically get it.

Anyways food is like sex. No amount of preaching gets people to stop eating (or fucking) despite the preaching.

You just gotta move the energy to good kinda eating.

I have quit eating ice cream more times than I quit smoking. I was able to quit smoking. I blame my inability to quit ice cream on WalMart. I cannot pass up the bargain price even though it is killing me.

I gave up, except for very rare occasions, sugar/sweet foods. It was tough the first week. Now I truly don't even want them.

If I could give up alcohol and cheeseburgers with fries, I'd be a-ok (yeah, I know, lose the bun and no fries. But fries are most of the fun). I've never liked white bread. Rice I can leave out and not miss. I do like me some pasta on occasion, but I've got high hopes for subbing zucchini sliced thin for pasta. it worked well with lasagna.

Ppen, your comparison is right on. And in both areas once you've become accustomed to quality, the crappy stuff is much less appealing and rarely satisfying. I'll make the occasional exception for Hershey's kisses, when nostalgia and PMS align.

I'm sorry, but I have tried - multiple times even - to sub spaghetti squash for spaghetti. Maybe I'm doing it wrong or something, but I thought it was terrible.

As for ice cream, well, I can probably give up most junk food, but ice cream is a hard one... so I got an ice cream maker. I noticed that almost all ice creams (like yogurt) are "low fat" now... which typically means high sugar.

I've only made one batch, but I left out 2/3 of the sugar & used some no-cal sweetener for that part. I actually thought it was too sweet, so I'll use less next time. The bonus, I know what's in it and it's almost all cream! Next time, I think I'll do mint - I can probably use less sugar in that.

It was hard work limiting myself to half a home made GF Chocolate Chip cookie this evening. (I decided to treat by boy earlier this week, which is always dangerous.)

What drives me nuts is cookie recipes will make 24 cookies! I want to make four! I want to treat myself and my son that day. Not the whole month! Recipes don't scale down very well.

I've related this story before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat it.

I worked at the same place for over 10 years. My drink for the day would be 32oz of coffee with some cream and sugar and on occasion unsweetened iced tea.

Then I moved to a new company. To get to know my coworkers I would go out to lunch. I would order a cola instead of unsweet iced tea.

After a few weeks I would find myself starving on the way home after about 10 hours. Once I switched off the cola, the starvation dropped significantly.

"What drives me nuts is cookie recipes will make 24 cookies! I want to make four!"

Heh, my problem is I'll just eat the 24 in one sitting. Then I'll feel crap the rest of the day.

The images in that article made me crave refined carbs .. :/

Z.A.K. - you can mix he full recipe, but only bake a few cookies at a time, and roll the remaining raw dough into a ball (or many smaller balls) and freeze it for later use. This works especially well with GF recipes that use nut flours and coconut oil (or a lot of butter) because they are more moist than the grain and coconut door based recipes.

Z.A.K. - you can mix he full recipe, but only bake a few cookies at a time, and roll the remaining raw dough into a ball (or many smaller balls) and freeze it for later use. This works especially well with GF recipes that use nut flours and coconut oil (or a lot of butter) because they are more moist than the grain and coconut door based recipes.