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Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
14. Fun is in the eyes of the beholder..What was once "fun" quickly becomes an "addiction"
Mon Sep 17, 2018, 06:20 PM
Sep 2018

And that is what this group is about. Hundreds of thousands of people start out with booze being "fun" and get addicted. All kinds of foods also can be addictive..like sugar..oh that wouldn't hurt anyone...

......Well we got about 110 million overweight people in the U.S.A. and of course, they are not "food addicts", just overweight..oh, and not a little, but a lot le. I got started in Overeaters Anonymous when I was about 70 pounds overweight, up and down, and up and down....So I started going to meetings..And I also discovered something...There are "underweight addicts too"..Really too thin too believe, but these people think they are "overweight"

I lost about 60 pounds and kept it off for over 35 years. Never gained it back. Yea, lots of people are addicted to food. They don't even see it as an addiction..just over eating, or under eating....But we get a real buzz from certain foods and we get addicted to them real easy and real young too.

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