And let’s not forget about food. My first year in college, I binged my way to a twenty-pound net gain, all of which I lost the next year. After college, I ramped up gradually until I weighed about 70 pounds more than when I reached physical maturity. Food, it seems, was to become my drug of choice: cheap, legal, and abundant. I already knew about food because my mother and several aunts were pushers. Plus I grew up in a church where, whenever two or three were gathered together, there was food. But