The sugar alien
May. 24th, 2019 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garoteThere is a system in your body that feels like an infection. There may also be bacteria in your body that constitute a literal infection, causing this phenomenon. Modern biology is still not entirely clear on the facts. But what's important is how it feels.
There is an alien mind lurking behind your own. It's a collective of little minds. It wants sugar. Simple fast-acting sugar; the kind that it can snatch up out of your bloodstream before your body can use or store it all. This alien mind reaches around your own and pokes the controls of your body, making you want sugar. The effect is sometimes overt and pictures of ice cream and soda flash directly into your mind, and other times the effect is subtle and you look down at what you're eating and realize that it contains a large portion of sugar, even though you deliberately chose it as an alternative to something with sugar in it. You thought you were doing good, but you tricked yourself. You are infected.
As long as you keep constantly eating sugar that you don't need, that alien mind is strong. When the sugar starts to dry up, it will lean hard on the controls. The craving can become unbearable, but it helps to realize that the craving is not your own voice but that of an alien, occupying your body, soaking up sugar and demanding more, even though such large amounts are damaging to all the systems of your body.
Defy it. Stop eating the sugar completely, for an entire week. The alien will scream and smash at the controls, and just after the cravings feel the worst, the bastard will start to die. Imagine little corpses falling into your bloodstream, being gathered up by your organs and dumped out, like the diseased aliens at the end of War Of The Worlds. Picture them as little foreign bacteria, or little bits of fungus, or tiny shrieking insects; whatever suits your imagination. That's what it's like, being addicted to sugar.
Fight the infection!
There is an alien mind lurking behind your own. It's a collective of little minds. It wants sugar. Simple fast-acting sugar; the kind that it can snatch up out of your bloodstream before your body can use or store it all. This alien mind reaches around your own and pokes the controls of your body, making you want sugar. The effect is sometimes overt and pictures of ice cream and soda flash directly into your mind, and other times the effect is subtle and you look down at what you're eating and realize that it contains a large portion of sugar, even though you deliberately chose it as an alternative to something with sugar in it. You thought you were doing good, but you tricked yourself. You are infected.
As long as you keep constantly eating sugar that you don't need, that alien mind is strong. When the sugar starts to dry up, it will lean hard on the controls. The craving can become unbearable, but it helps to realize that the craving is not your own voice but that of an alien, occupying your body, soaking up sugar and demanding more, even though such large amounts are damaging to all the systems of your body.
Defy it. Stop eating the sugar completely, for an entire week. The alien will scream and smash at the controls, and just after the cravings feel the worst, the bastard will start to die. Imagine little corpses falling into your bloodstream, being gathered up by your organs and dumped out, like the diseased aliens at the end of War Of The Worlds. Picture them as little foreign bacteria, or little bits of fungus, or tiny shrieking insects; whatever suits your imagination. That's what it's like, being addicted to sugar.
Fight the infection!
