Karen - "Self Destruction not to feel pain" ?

I could buy into that if this was a board about alcohol or heroin. I don't think a carb high gets one high enough to "forget" about dieting, or needing to lose weight, or a crappy job, or self loathing, or an aching back. If eating carbs made a person temporarily "forget" about their station in life.... then this would make sense.

I think eating carbs is a pain-giving thing not an escape. Like the person who repeatedly bangs their head against a wall, or who picks their cuticles until they bleed. The objective for them is to increase pain to support self-loathing - immediate justification that: "I am unworthy of being treated well, even by myself". The drunk and the heroin addict are looking for the pain avoidance - the 'mind-numbing-forget'.