The Addiction So Many Of Us Have

I have been eating pretty much a good diet for the last few months.
Nothing fancy just no sweets, very little chocolate and very little
processed food. By now I had forgotten how much better I had been
feeling than I did when eating a shittier diet.

For the last couple of days for some personal stress reasons I have
had moments of eating shit again, sweets, chocolate and for lunch just
general fridge grazing rather than making something balanced. And
yesterday was the worst of those days, in the evening after staying up
way too late for no decent reason I came over feeling really awful,
the stupid thing is it reminded me that before my recent better eating
regime I had had these moments of feeling awful fairly often, but had
just gotten used to them.

This has all gone to draw my attention to the reality that eating a
crap diet is an addiction like any other. We don't recognise it of
course but that is normal with any addiction. We eat a diet that to
put it at its most dark is killing us, shortening our lives. Most of
us know what a healthy diet is yet we live in denial that what we eat
is not that bad and what the hay, we like it so we are going to
continue eating it.

Well to me that all sounds like an addict. Our behaviour is not what
we want it to be, we won't give something up that we know is causing
us harm. We lie to ourselves and others to facilitate our addiction.