[snvzz]

Very long article, for something so simple.

Stop eating i.e. fast. The cravings go away within 48h.

Done, solved.

[nomius10]

As the article stated, sugar consumption was a method of coping (when he felt stressed or overwhelmed). If you consider that the source of that stress is chronic or from something constantly being put away, then that repeated regular use over the course of decades becomes quite a tough pattern to break, since it represents a fundamental element of what keeps you sane. In these cases, the sudden removal is comparable to living a nightmare.

So I beg to differ that it's not (always) that simple.

[snvzz]

It's also about the only option. Got to stop consumption.

So what would you advocate, involuntary commitment perhaps?

[coldtea]

This is like:

- You're depressed? Just cheer up!

- Gee, why haven't I thought of that!

Fasting wont take away the cravings, if anything it will make them worse (after a few days you feel very hungry and all you can think about is food, then there's a period where you don't mind, then you are starving again, and so on).

And even if it did, once you stop the fast you get the cravings again.

[snvzz]

>This is like:

Exercising willpower is an important life skill. Being able to will be extremely helpful in way too many occasions to count.

>Fasting wont take away the cravings

It will, actually. Sugar cravings are very different relative to regular hunger, and are really gone for good within 48h.

>after a few days you feel very hungry and all you can think about is food,

The "all you can think" is just not true. It's just regular hunger.

You can then eat. Just not sugar, but actual nutritious food.

I'd suggest a cadence of one meal a day, or two but not far apart from each other (e.g. 18:6 intermittent fasting).

It is actually and, quite surprisingly for many, easy to do this.

[hombre_fatal]

Willpower, propensity for addiction, susceptibility to sugar, etc. aren't equally distributed.

The people you're preaching to have tried all those things. Your advice cashes out into "land better in the distribution like me and then confuse it for a character trait like I do".

[snvzz]

>have tried

Apparently not hard enough.

>"land better in the distribution like me..."

This line of thinking you are describing there is classic loser mentality. The successes of others are always because of "luck".

It couldn't possibly be that they put in the hard work when you weren't looking. Of course not.

Entertaining such ideas would lead to looking inwards, and there's only darkness to be found inwards.

This is a problem that outsiders cannot fix. They have to realize the problem themselves, and only then will they be able to move forward.