Addictions: are they a bad thing?

[martinemonster]

Ever since I started my new and better life (which includes very little candy and snacks, no smoking and vigorous workouts), I’ve started substituting all my cravings for coffee. I want chocolate: I drink coffee. I might crave a juicy cheese burger: I have a double espresso. I feel like eating chips with dip: I take a cortado with soymilk.

This has worked out pretty nicely for me so far, but today I realized, right after I bullied a patient into buying me a double cortado with soymilk, that I might have become an addict. You see, I’ve been craving sugar all day, getting steadily grumpier and more stressed out, but two sips of coffee and I’m mellow as a tired kitten. I have a warm and lovely feeling in my tummy, I look forward to Christmas and I’ve started planning an awesome dinner for tonight.

So, should I be worried? Or should I just accept that I am an addict and make sure I get at least one cup per day?

Comments

[coldbeans.livejournal.com]

I was more concerned about the amount of caffeine you seem to be taking in. In any case, maybe you should lay off the coffee-drinking, at least for a while?

[martinemonster.livejournal.com]

Sure... It's mostly you guys around me who will suffer my new, grumpy self. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Grumbyness is next to godliness. And besides best sex is had while having terrible headache.