Sugar Smackdown
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By Karen McNew
WSLS10 Anchor
Published: September 16, 2008
I am constantly experimenting with the foods I eat… the protein.. carbs… sugar.. natural.. organic.. you name it and I have likely tried it or at least thought about it.. some of the habits stick and others like a post it note have very little glue and eventually fall off or disappear for a time… I write this as I snack on my portioned out raw almonds and a sliced apple from my neighbors apple tree.
The good habits include regular exercise… eating more fish and less red meat… and getting away from processed foods… it is very easy to pack a calorie counted frozen dinner to nuke at work… but I think one my single biggest challenges is sugar… I feel better when I avoid it and other over starchy foods…
I will often peruse the organic and “natural” isle at the store and was compelled to pick up an Edamame Goji blend… basically dried soy beans and these little tiny red pea pod looking things… I took some of it to work in a baggie and just before heading out to the gym on dinner break I put a handful in my mouth…. ugggggh!!! I haven’t spit food out since I was a kid and I almost did… the little dried goji berries had such a sweet and then overwhelmingly bitter taste I couldn’t help but crinkle my nose… since I don’t like to waste food I have forced myself to develop a taste for them at least until this bag is gone… I did a little checking on line and apparently they are loaded with antioxidants… I’d rather eat some blueberries…
As I was driving to work today I came to the conclusion that right now…. I view sugar as a drug that we are hooked on at a very young age… ice cream… chocolate covered candies.. suckers… we have an entire day basically relegated to giving it out by the bag full… had I never tasted the richly sweet treats I wouldn’t know what I am missing…
While I am back on my anti-sugar kick.. I can’t help but have some crazy cravings for it from time to time… I mean everything I read says.. treat yourself every now and then… don’t deprive yourself or you will binge… my problem is that when there are cookies in the news room or elsewhere I can’t just eat one so I eat none!!!
You may be saying oh lighten up… What is a cookie going to hurt? And you are probably right.
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Posted by ( Sgt Mom ) on September 17, 2008 at 7:51 am
In my experiance the real problem with changing your eating habits is that you’re saying “no” to yourself all day, everyday. That gets really frustrating and depressing after a while. My solution is to take a day off from dieting every week. I don’t binge on that day, but I do reward myself with a bottle of soda, a snack of chips or cookies or whatever comfort food I missed the most during the week. For me, now that my body is used to not having soda or sweets everyday, it doesn’t take much at all to satisfy the craving.
So yeah, relax and have that cookie.
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