No Sugar, No Flour...Again! Yes! Again!
Dec. 2nd, 2017 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stSo, periodically I decide to give up sugar and flour, my joint addictions. I take the pledge. I blow the dust off of my journal and prayer book and meditative coloring book. I start working on my feelings. I toss out food that is not helping me and stock up on food I love that is pure of heart and purpose. This is never a huge change.
I don't really mind eating real food. I eat it for most of my meals. Other people think I'm obsessive about having no processed stuff. I enjoy salads. I love poached chicken and beans and broccoli without cheese sauces. I don't drink soda. I don't eat chips. I don't really like pasta or rice or ice cream. I'm a mostly clean eater.
If you followed me around and tried to figure out why I am overweight, you might be puzzled. But that is because you would not know about the sugar and baked goods. Brownies. Peanut butter cups. Frosted Oreos. These small treats add up to a major health issue for me.
I use sugar as a drug, to off-set my fatigue and pain. Just like any drug, the dosage keeps going up and the "Benefits" keep going down. I eat about 150 grams of sugar a day, in the form of brownies and peanut butter cups. I don't binge on these things...I eat them in place of real food...and I eat comparatively small amounts. For example...if I eat two packages of dark chocolate, peanut butter cups that is only about 6 oz of food. But it is 100 grams of sugar. If I drink an eggnog latte I can easily add another 68 grams.
That's a huge sugar hit to have every day. So, I am...once again...swearing off the sugar and flour. I currently have a very bad headache and some digestive upset. It's like a mild flu, on top of my usual serious flu symptoms of fibro.
I don't really mind eating real food. I eat it for most of my meals. Other people think I'm obsessive about having no processed stuff. I enjoy salads. I love poached chicken and beans and broccoli without cheese sauces. I don't drink soda. I don't eat chips. I don't really like pasta or rice or ice cream. I'm a mostly clean eater.
If you followed me around and tried to figure out why I am overweight, you might be puzzled. But that is because you would not know about the sugar and baked goods. Brownies. Peanut butter cups. Frosted Oreos. These small treats add up to a major health issue for me.
I use sugar as a drug, to off-set my fatigue and pain. Just like any drug, the dosage keeps going up and the "Benefits" keep going down. I eat about 150 grams of sugar a day, in the form of brownies and peanut butter cups. I don't binge on these things...I eat them in place of real food...and I eat comparatively small amounts. For example...if I eat two packages of dark chocolate, peanut butter cups that is only about 6 oz of food. But it is 100 grams of sugar. If I drink an eggnog latte I can easily add another 68 grams.
That's a huge sugar hit to have every day. So, I am...once again...swearing off the sugar and flour. I currently have a very bad headache and some digestive upset. It's like a mild flu, on top of my usual serious flu symptoms of fibro.