We spend all year doing pretty damn good not to go overboard with the sweet stuff. But then the holidays splash upon us and we’re transported to an alternate reality. Here, cookies are currency, fudge rules the land, and pies abound.

We know sugar makes us feel like crap—headachy, cranky, and wanting more—but we just keep going until we’re double-fisting candy canes while drinking eggnog straight out of the carton. And you don’t even like candy canes or eggnog. But there you are at 10pm on a Tuesday, with oversized flannel snowman PJs and peppermint breath debating on grabbing more fudge and trying to figure out what eggnog actually tastes like. No one knows. No one cares. People just drink it.

You go to bed feeling wired from your sugar intake and determined to kick the habit tomorrow. But because sugar is addictive AF, the next day goes much like all the other days: sugar calling the shots and you obeying every word. And not in the fun kinky way, either.

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