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Claire is a food addict, which she says is a bit different from being a \u201cOvereater.\u201d\xa0 They are not overeaters, often, but they use food and its ingredients as a drug. Claire says anything floury would relieve her stress, give her confidence, and calm her anxiety.\xa0 She would also suffer withdrawals if she wasn\u2019t eating certain foods.\xa0 She remembers her hands and arms shaking unless she ate sugary snacks.\xa0\xa0 Sugar was perhaps her first drug, stealing candy from candy machines at age six or seven.\xa0\xa0 But it wasn\u2019t to satisfy a food craving, she says. Claire feels she was born with an addiction to sugary and floury foods, and she\u2019s now \u201csober.\u201d