Hey there,
I have read the alcohol-sugar connection in many of the other books I've read about stopping drinking. (Nina, I'll try to find the chemistry behind that as well -- my husband is a homebrewer, so he might know too.) Although if we are trying not to put alcohol into our bodies, ice cream or a candy bar should seem harmless, but the books, including RJ's, say that it will just exacerbate those cravings and take longer for them to dissipate. (How to Quit Drinking without AA talks about diet and sugar quite a bit.)

I normally am a chip/cheese-and-crackers/salty snack kind of person (who wants cookies when you're drinking beer?) I made peach cobbler which I had several nights in a row. Kinda justified it with the homegrown fruit I had in my freezer! My sugar pangs went away after the 1st week, and I generally don't go super crazy with carbs (pasta once a week). Right now with being pregnant, I am finding that amounts I might normally eat are making me feel bloated and uncomfortably full, so I am trying to be more conscious of that.

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CS04