Where's the Fire?

As a food addict, (I can admit that now) I really used food to feel good.  I anticipated that physical rush in my blood sugar that made me feel happy.  I still love the strokes I get from making beautiful baked goods and impressing others. It is curious? Fascinating? Interesting? to me that as I have come off the buckets of sugar I was eating three months ago, I still get a rush from eating the healthy foods.  It's not the same sort of shot-out-of-a-cannon explosion that sugar gives me, but now that I'm better at identifying actual hunger, I'm sensitized enough to be aware of the increase in my blood sugar that comes from calories going in. It's more like a low burn now instead of an inferno and it lasts longer instead of flaring up and burning out.  The emotions are changed too.  Instead of that energetic high, followed by, "I need to sit down and rest," I'm learning to make use of that steady, keep going level of energy.  It's an energy shift instead of an energy roller coaster.  It's an adjustment.  I think I like it.