This is a question I've been wondering about. Are some of us just sugarholics from the start? I have always been obese and fat, actually compared to a lot of fat kids today, I was pretty near normal until I was about 11, I hit all of my milestones at the times normal-weighted kids do from about 7-10, which is amazing to me because when I was actually that age, I was told I was "so fat" and have been on diets since I was 7. I'm a guy by the way.
At any rate, my father has never had to deal with his weight, at most he got up to 210 in the army and that was a "fat time" for him. He's 174 now and has let his weight drop to 139 in the past due to picky eating habits (he's 5'11").
So, he buys donuts the other day, and I noticed he's taken a bite out of it and left the rest, and I'm thinking to myself: "Who does that?!". I didn't actually say anything to him.
This wasn't a huge fritter, this was just your basic buttermilk glazed donut. And, to me, no matter what, no matter how skinny I get, no matter how comatose, I will never be able to cut a small sliver of a single donut and leave the rest. He will nurse a single can of coke for 2 or 3 days.
I can't do that. Sugar really messes with my blood glucose levels, seems pretty standard when I say that, lol. But yet, apparently not so for him. Even if I'm cutting back I will always have one donut or a can or two of soda. Mostly I just drink water and go months without soda. So for me I just cut these kinds of trigger foods out altogether. And yet he can portion them.
I was wondering if some people are born "sugarholics" like with me, I've been around smokers my entire life, but have never felt the urge to partake, not even once. I have drank alcohol once or twice, but have never had a burning compulsive need to do it over again, so I'm thinking I don't have the "nicotine" or "alcoholic" gene. I could give or take those. But give me a donut, and I will feel a compulsive need to eat 20 more, and fight myself not to. Give me a can of coke, and I will want to drink 10 more, and fight myself not to. Does anyone else think that somehow some of us are just born with the "sugarholic" gene that makes us prone to this and others with the "alcoholic" gene or lack it or whatever? It's odd to me.