I appreciate all the responses and different perspectives on this question. Thank you, everyone!
Reading your replies and reflecting on all your experiences over the past several days has got me to think of my own pattern and personality. I guess that's why this question had been nagging at me. I am the kind of person who goes into things 110%, completely committed. I accomplish my goals, feel good about myself, and then there's this let-down where I don't know what to do with myself. Instead of just enjoying the accomplishment, I tend to start on a dark path spiraling down into depression. Which, of course, makes no sense. (For example, from the first day of Kindergarten, I decided I wanted to be a teacher. I went straight through school with that goal. I came from a poor, single parent family and had to put myself through college. I got my first teaching job at 23. And my first serious depression. And as soon as I started crawling out of the depression, or perhaps in order to get myself moving out of it, I started working on a new goal. I went back to school for my master's degree.) I guess my enthusiasm for the program scares me because I know, deep down, that I need this. I don't want to accomplish it and then un-accomplish it (lol).This program is for me. I am sugar sensitive, and nothing else has ever worked for me. I know this is my only hope. So I have a deep fear of reaching the end and turning right back around and returning to the dark place of addiction and misery. It's not guilt and shame--it's the emotional roller coaster I loathe. And for me leaving the program wouldn't be to try something new. It would be a response to not knowing how to deal with the let-down of accomplishing this goal. I don't know if this makes any sense.
But in any case, I sense that this is different because it's not a personality thing; it's a brain chemistry thing. It boggles my mind that it can be healed. I sense that I'm so messed up I don't even know where to begin in understanding it all.
So I guess I'll just focus on doing the food, lol.
Julie
: Julie,
: there is another way to look at it...
: there is no failure here. 
: someone might go off to do some
: research and test whether they
: really are sugar
: sensitive. Or whether it really is
: what they want to do. They may be
: tired of not having
: sweets with their family or friends,
: they may want to have wine, they
: may want to try
: another program, they may want to do
: a diet.
: The key is knowing that when they
: come back, they will NOT BE
: SHAMED! 
: They will be welcomed, valued and
: encourgaed.
: This is grace unfolding, you are not
: alone.
: Kathleen
