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The Science of a Sweet Tooth (Part I)
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hi. my name is tracy and i am addicted to sugar.
i love sweets. sweet candles, sweet perfumes, sweet cocktails, doughnuts, cupcakes, the list goes on.
in june i decided to live gluten-free due to intolerances i have dealt with my whole life. doctors, nor i, had known that these issues were linked to a gluten intolerance (it is the hardest thing to diagnose, since gluten affects every aspect of your body). two months later, i am still making (plenty) mistakes, but i do feel so much better when gluten is not involved. (i will do a separate post on all my gluten adventures and lessons (there have been many) later).
with that said, when i rid the heavy amount of gluten in my life (doughnuts, cupcakes, pasta, grilled cheese, pizza, cookies- i mean, this is new york) my body kind of freaked out and said OH MY Lord, please fill me up with sugar in another way! (since most gluten just turns into sugar in your body). so, i indulged in multiple pears, bananas, and baskets of raspberries daily. it was not only expensive, but just downright unhealthy. fruits contain a lot of fructose. and fructose is fructose. it got to a point where i was skipping dinner to eat something sweet. and i mean a pint of ice cream. weekly. sometimes even twice a week.
i have been trying (half-assing) to quit sugar for some time now. but you know how it goes- a friend is in town visiting, so it's completely appropriate to indulge in ice cream every day... or it's a monday night, so i hop into bed with a movie and a pint of ben & jerry's phish food. rats.
i keep fucking-up somehow, but it stops today. an hour ago, to be exact. i had been good on eating sans sugar all day until i woke up from a groggy slumber, went to the freezer, and ate half (only half!!!!) the pint of haagen dazs froyo. and the guess what? I THREW IT OUT.
THAT IS HUGE. i never and i mean never throw out sweets. but today, i did. i think that's a start.
i'm going to use this blog to help me document this transition in my life. if i can give up meat and gluten, i know i can quit sugar. this will just be a bit harder... because i was never addicted to pastas or chicken parm.
here's to my sugar free journey.
(i still love you, babycakes.)
ps,
this article is insanely inspiring to me. i do not have an auto-immune disease, but the effects that sugar can ultimately have on so many people is pretty wild.
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in june i decided to live gluten-free due to intolerances i have dealt with my whole life. doctors, nor i, had known that these issues were linked to a gluten intolerance (it is the hardest thing to diagnose, since gluten affects every aspect of your body). two months later, i am still making (plenty) mistakes, but i do feel so much better when gluten is not involved. (i will do a separate post on all my gluten adventures and lessons (there have been many) later).
with that said, when i rid the heavy amount of gluten in my life (doughnuts, cupcakes, pasta, grilled cheese, pizza, cookies- i mean, this is new york) my body kind of freaked out and said OH MY Lord, please fill me up with sugar in another way! (since most gluten just turns into sugar in your body). so, i indulged in multiple pears, bananas, and baskets of raspberries daily. it was not only expensive, but just downright unhealthy. fruits contain a lot of fructose. and fructose is fructose. it got to a point where i was skipping dinner to eat something sweet. and i mean a pint of ice cream. weekly. sometimes even twice a week.
i have been trying (half-assing) to quit sugar for some time now. but you know how it goes- a friend is in town visiting, so it's completely appropriate to indulge in ice cream every day... or it's a monday night, so i hop into bed with a movie and a pint of ben & jerry's phish food. rats.
i keep fucking-up somehow, but it stops today. an hour ago, to be exact. i had been good on eating sans sugar all day until i woke up from a groggy slumber, went to the freezer, and ate half (only half!!!!) the pint of haagen dazs froyo. and the guess what? I THREW IT OUT.
THAT IS HUGE. i never and i mean never throw out sweets. but today, i did. i think that's a start.
i'm going to use this blog to help me document this transition in my life. if i can give up meat and gluten, i know i can quit sugar. this will just be a bit harder... because i was never addicted to pastas or chicken parm.
here's to my sugar free journey.
(i still love you, babycakes.)
ps,
this article is insanely inspiring to me. i do not have an auto-immune disease, but the effects that sugar can ultimately have on so many people is pretty wild.
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