Hi Andrea

I long ago gave up trying to explain the sugar, as a lot of sugar sensitive people we tell are in denial, and everyone likes to think that they are in control of what they eat etc., we tend to only find out that we aren't when we try to stop eating something.

If I am around people who I have to eat in front of, and they ask why I am eating a particular thing, I will tell them that I have food allergies, and if they ask what the allergies do to me, I tell them they give me stomach problems.

I gave up trying to rescue people by telling them about a year ago, someone I knew understood it all, and believed in it, but wasn't ready then to do anything about it, and perhaps they never will, (but they are now in possession of Potatoes Not Prozac.) I never involve anyone else in it now, I make it about my situation, rather than a planet-wide situation which it is. When I started with this program I wanted everyone to know about it, but after a while of people saying "I don't have issues with that," when they blatantly do, you realise that we all have to rescue ourselves, not each other.

Hope that helps

Love

Jane
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: I have trouble explaining sugar
: addiction to some people. This is
: a thing of mine that I do not
: quite understand, but I shut down
: in discussions because I will all
: too soon hit a wall anyway and
: will not know how to argue on. So
: whilst KNOWING that I have a good
: point, I will feel like I am
: "losing" the argument as
: the other person just has the
: better arguments. Very
: frustrating. Can anybody help me?
: This is how a recent discussion
: went:

: He: Here, have some cake.
: I: Nah, thanks, I ´ll pass.
: He: Why is that? This is good stuff.
: I: I don ´t eat sugar.
: (exclamations of surprise on is side,
: then my explaining that this is
: not a diet)
: He: I think it´s all in your head.
: I: That´s the point. And also it´s
: biochemical.
: He: What happens when you eat sugar?
: I: It re-enforces my anxiety. And
: also, I can ´t stop.
: He: Is there science to back this up?
: I: Experimental science, yes. It´s
: like with alcoholism.
: He: So there ´s no science to back it
: up?
: I: It´s experience values. (I know, I
: need to get the BE and serotonin
: stuff right and learn how to
: represent it.)
: He (huffs): It´s a question of
: willpower.
: I: No, it´s not. It´s like with
: alcoholism.
: He: But that´s just it, it´s a
: question of willpower. I know many
: friends who just quit drinking
: from one day to the next.
: Willpower. They had a drinking
: problem in college, and then they
: just quit.
: I: Well....
: He: So is this like a diet, then?

: And so on. At some point the eating
: disorder question will pop up. But
: more often than not, I will have
: just aborted discussion before it
: gets to this, confining myself to
: being perceived as weird,
: neurotical, or both.
: Any ideas?