Sugar is the hardest addiction and one of the most frustrating of my life. It is upsetting to walk through grocery stores, knowing what I'll find on the labels

Sugar is the hardest addiction and one of the most frustrating of my life. It is upsetting to walk through grocery stores, knowing what I'll find on the labels of 80% of the goods inside, brightly labeled, at eye height. It's triggering. It ruins my skin, spikes my insulin, and has more of a tag-on compounding effect than cannabis, nitrous, alcohol, caffeine or nicotine. If I over indulge sugar two days in a row, it's over. I will have spikes and intense hunger pains, and it will take days of re-regulating to get back to not needing regular spikes of insulin to keep sane. Maybe this is partially related to having previously been overweight, not sure. It's a drug, and my world has changed as I've changed my relationship with food as a result of religiously reading labels. Also, it's just a war. It's a handful of processed food producers who direct benefit from addicted unhealthy consumers, who have normalized garbage in our diets. I'm tired of being their rube.