I've had a love/hate relationship with sugar.
It tastes good. It makes me feel good when I'm down. It's been there for me when others weren't. It has helped me celebrate birthdays, holidays, and everything in between. However, like many other people I have decided to use the new year to start fresh and get healthier. This has brought on huge changes for me that I didn't expect.
I decided to cut out all sugar (except natural sugars like fruits), cut out as much processed foods as I could, give up milk (which BTW is HUGE for me! Anyone who knows me well knows I LOVE milk, cheese, and ice cream....mmmmmmmmm! Bring on the dairy lol) and really change my eating habits....and I tell you what.... I had NO idea I ate as much sugar I was eating! For the first couple of days I had major withdrawals! Horrible headaches and exhaustion like you would not believe!
I knew this would be a change but I never expected my body to react this way. I didn't know I had slipped down the slope this far. After about three days of being sick my body finally adjusted and I felt great. Hallelujah!
Well, the eating program I decided to adapt is where you eat "clean" for five days and then on the weekend you get two treat meals. Now these are not pig out meals but so that you don't feel deprived and when special occasions arise or you go out with friends you are allowed to treat yourself to foods you don't eat the other five days.
So this past weekend I decided I really wanted some chocolate as part of my treat meal on Sunday. I had a some of the left over Christmas candy and holy cow did I feel sick to my stomach....and then on Monday I had withdrawal headaches again!!! I'm a sugar-aholic!!!
Sugar is the drug that is throwing my body out of wack! It's poisoning! (I know this shouldn't be a huge realization but in some ways it is...I've never had my body react to this extent. I mean I normally have had issues with my blood sugar dropping and spiking throughout my life but I thought that was normal...but I'm thinking not so much now)
I feel like sugar is that guy you date/like off and on for a really long time and then suddenly after you break it off for what seems like the twentieth time you suddenly have this realization...the realization that you aren't happy at all with him and that you are DONE for good (you know girls, everyone has an experience with this type of guy). You're sick of the way he's been treating you and you're sick of it.
Well, I'm literally SICK of my boyfriend sugar!!!
(Okay that's not the best analogy because I'm married...but I think you guys understand. Ryan, I love you! You are and always will be my one, eternal best friend and true love!)
Now I think it would be unrealistic to say I'll never, ever eat sugar again. However, I think it's safe to say that I'm sick and tried of eating straight sugar and letting my body go all out of wack.
Well there it is my big confession... I'm a sugar-aholic! And I'm breaking up with sugar. lol
