I never want to go through the first two weeks again. The withdrawal was awful!
From cigars? Really? I binge-smoke cigars most autumns for a week or three. I’ll smoke one an evening sitting on various decks and around fire pits. Beer and cigars. Then it gets cold and I’m done till next year.
My slippery slope?
Weed, Good Beer, Hookers And Blow…
Only the first two count.
I kid sometimes …or do I?
Food I am okay with, as T1 diabetic I have had a lifetime of doing without. Chocolate gets me though. I have to work it in to get any, so I am real careful. I would be a hoarder of all and sundry shit if I weren’t watchful. I love my stuff. I like to collect. Mr.Wrekker says I have to have at least 3 of anything before I am satisfied. Usually it’s more he just don’t know it. 
Ooh, aren’t they good? There’s supposed to be like 12 servings in a bag or something, but somehow it never lasts me more than a couple of days.
12 servings, HA! In a pig’s eye!
My book club is coming over on Wednesday, and I’m going shopping for snacks tomorrow. There will be six of us, and even if I put out half a bag, we won’t even make a dent in it. There will be a lot left over… It would be the greater part of valor not to buy them at all. OTOH I haven’t bought them in over a month. Or maybe it’s only been two weeks… Suddenly the ground is feeling slippery.
I’m alcoholic and proved to myself that attempting to drink in moderation is impossible for me. Zero or I’m all in.
I’ve got that type of personality. My wife has a Twix in the fridge that she ate one of the two bars five weeks ago. The hell with that! I open a candy bar and it’s going to get eaten. Any snack food is like that for me.
Drugs and alcohol. One of the worst experiences in my life was being locked up and forced to take anti-depressants (to quote the person forcing me “That’s not drugs. That’s medication.”). They destroyed 26 years of sobriety, made me bounce off the walls so bad they offered me a sedative, and left me damn near suicidal. How taking a drug…excuse me, medication for three days that takes four to six weeks to have any effect was supposed to help me? I don’t know.
Lately I’ve been pouring my evening’s allotment into a measuring cup to remind me to stop at 10 ounces.
Foodwise, it’s corn tortilla chips. It’s best I don’t have any at all.
I have also drawn a bright line when it comes to watching my weight. I have a five-pound range that’s okay for me to be in, but when the scale hits the number at the top of that range, the diet begins. It would be all too easy to start thinking the next five-pound range was also okay, and then the next one, etc.
My last job, some 10 years, I had the alarm set for 4am (somebody’s got to attend to the east coasters). After I retired, for about two months I kept the alarm set so that the morning was:
Bzzzzzt! <slap>
It’s 4am, and I don’t have to get up!!
<broad smile>
ZZZZs
Bacon. I try not to indulge too much at buffets and such because of the grease factor but I do loves me some bacon. I had bottle of smoked bloody mary mix and had the brilliant idea of bacon in addition to the celery as garnish. I bought a package of Hormel pre-cooked bacon at CostCo. and put it in the refrigerator.
I think two of them wound up as garnish. The others kept calling to me, the little bastards.
I have quite a few trigger foods unfortunately
candy corn - can eat until it makes me sick to my stomach
jelly beans
doritos
worst of all is pizza… even one bite and I’ll want to finish the entire pizza-- and then I inevitably want a bite of something sweet afterwards! It’s better for me to simply not have any at all.
Books. I have over a hundred waiting at home in my to-be-read stacks.
Food is a big one, of course, but here’s another one that I know is shared by many: office supplies. I like having nice pens. I like my monogrammed bookweight. I like having the best pencil sharpener in the world, even though I almost never use pencils. I like my dry highlighter.
My stapler broke last week. Now I have two new ones, a 25-sheet one and a 40-sheet one.
Levenger used to absolutely own me.
Robin egg Easter candy. The finest food known to man.
Diet coke. I drink so much I must be immune from caffeine.
YouTube music videos. There are some I watch nearly every day at work. Gotta have a few tunes before I get serious.
So YOU’RE the one person on Earth who actually eats candy corn – mystery solved! 
Cheetos Cheese Puffs
Pistachios
Peanuts
I only buy Pistachios and Peanuts in the shell. Shelling them slows me down and pile of shells reminds to stop.
Bags of shelled Pistachios are evil. You can pour a whole handful at a time. It’s impossible to have any control.
I also love office supplies. When I read about nice pens, I buy them by the box. A dear friend gave me a Lamy fountain pen 10 years ago (~$30 each) and I have since bought four more. Two are still in the box. I love notebooks, especially if they’re in a package. Target has some great notebooks. One time Marshall’s had packages of eight Moleskine notebooks marked down to $13-ish. Another shopper and I spotted them at the same time and exchanged one of those electric glances mutually recognized by the fiendishly obsessed, before we started grabbing them up.
Sheepishly raises hand.
I do not allow myself to go to the animal shelter. All those sad eyes and I cave every single time.
Potato chips. Salt & Vinegar.
My wife does buy it, eats a few then stops.