I've been addicted to sugar all my life. Total sugar freak. I admit it: I used to be able to eat a full bag of jelly beans in one sitting, and I wouldn't feel a sugar buzz at all. Probably because I was already buzzed on the previous day's sugar. And then, I decided I needed to slow down on my sugar, so tried time and again to cut it out but the cravings would still plague me.
And they do still plague me, but apparently I've cut back enough that my body is taking notice. While I can still eat a candy bar, I can't eat more than a few jelly beans at time, or I get dizzy and start feeling sick.
Today I made gluten free cupcakes for dinner with company tomorrow night. I was worried--I could go through those like crazy just a few months back. But today I made them, and made the frosting--which was always my favorite part. And I ate a spoon of frosting (which is not unusual for me if it's around) and I could barely swallow it. Too sweet, gave me an instant headache.
I frost a cupcake and eat it. And it was too sweet. And my worry over wanting to eat all of them vanished. I had ONE cupcake. That was enough. That was almost too much. Granted, I did have some fruit-sweetened sorbet today, but you know, that wouldn't have slowed my cupcake-frenzy a few months ago.
I think my body has turned the corner in the war against sugar. But my mind hasn't. I mentally crave the cupcakes and frosting...but my body doesn't. And now I'm into a whole new conundrum--figuring out how to correlate my body's feelings (does not want the sugar) with my mind/emotional cravings (does want the sugar).
Man, this whole thing is a learning curve, isn't it?
Yasmine
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