Maria, I too found your post very insightful. I see a lot of "me" in there. Especially the parts about planning for the "fix" and eating alone. Those are behaviors I used to reserve for alcohol consumption. When I first stopped drinking, I followed great advice NOT to feed the early cravings with sugar. I got past it and was fine. It was a couple years later when I started to allow sugar into my picture that the addictive behaviors (thankfully not with alcohol this time!) quickly escalated.

I am lurking only on RR. Taking what I need and leaving the rest.

I am very interested and grateful for all the comments on this thread, and will keep reading with interest!

DG