I have an addiction to coffee. I have been really busy at work these past months and I have been using it to keep me awake in the mornings since I work from 8:00 a.m. to 11: 00 p.m.
Even though I feel my heart beating faster when I drink it, I do every day, but then I began to have a need for it. Coffee. Not weed or cigarette but coffee. The craving got me thinking that there is no way I could be addicted to it. Not me.
But then I was wrong, the first day I tired to go without it I got a little headache, I thought that it was nothing so I had some. So two days after I tried to stop, again and got a severe headache. It felt like a migraine. I had the urge for caffeine. The kind you get when you are short of breath; I needed coffee. I drank it, the satisfaction felt like a climax. Aaahhhhh, coffee the caffeine against my lips, what a relief!
Then I tried again to stop. The migraine started like a hammer - bang, bang; it was trying to shoot me down. So I took a little sip and I could feel the headache going away.
But the next day didn't win. I bore the pain, jus like a woman bears it during labour. The hammer began its banging but I won on this day.
- Lij Heron
An addiction to hard drugs can be fatal, but have you ever considered that there are many persons who are food addicts? They just have to have a cup of coffee several times daily, something sweet like chocolate, a special fruit or ice cream. It does not matter the time of day or night, it could be in church, at a business meeting or alone in the privacy of their rooms, food addicts must get their fix.
If you are such a person share your story in our new Food Addicts Anonymous (FAA) series. Tell us the food you absolutely cannot live without. Email us at: Lifestyle@gleanerjm.com.
