Some of you have asked if my acupuncturist/naturopath has me off sugar. Well, I’m very sad to say that yes, I am supposed to be off dairy, wheat, and sugar until I get better. Of course, I have already failed. Who knew that evaporated cane juice is the same as sugar (okay, so everyone except ME knew that, and I think I actually knew, too, but I was in denial). I am feeling better already, though, so I am hoping I can dive into cupcakes very soon.
In the meantime, I am making myself happy by purchasing sweets-related items. This is going to adorn our kitchen:
All right, time for dessert (GRAPEFRUIT. Oh, the horror, the horror).
Wait, now you are eating grapefruit instead of wearing it???
Hurry up and start the colonic blogging!
Nooo… grapefruit is awesome! And it’s good with some Sweet ‘n Low sprinkled on top instead of the evil sugar! 🙂
but dude. you have always eaten the same admittedly large amounts of sugar. but you have not always been sick. so i guess sugar COULD be the reason you are sick now but it is not NECESSARILY so. if you’d like me to diagram this as an X/Y formal logic statement for you to bring to your next appointment, i got a LOT OF PRACTICE doing those today.
i think grapefruit is disgusting. maybe if you plug your nose, does that make it better? or wear blinders? what if you put 8 cups of sugar on it… oh right. no sugar. damn.
I came off sugar, and stayed off for 3 years – it made a HUGE difference to my health.
After a few months I was able to make cookies with honey rather than sugar – it’s still bad, but it’s not as bad as sugar. You can also make a lot of cakes with canderel/sweetner, and maybe diabetic chocolate bars are even nicer than regular chocolate! Also, you can eat Atkins candy and cake mix – its sugar free.
It doesn’t have to be as bad as you think; there are no sugar alternatives out there.
… by ‘no sugar alternatives’ I meant ‘no-sugar alternatives’ as in sugar free, not that there are’t any…! lmao
I used to get sick a lot, and I have to say that I really believe cutting out sugar has made a big difference. The cravings were pure torture the first week, but after a while they go away. No, really.
Hey…my acupuncturist/herbalist has me off sugar, starches as well! the first week was tough…but i felt SO MUCH better after! but my entire family (chinese) keeps asking me “how can you be FULL without RICE???” the holidays were hard…working at a hospital there were sweets everywhere from doctors. so yes, i cheated. but it’s a new year..i gotta get back on track! hehe. my doctor said that i could eat as much fruit as I wanted…minus watermelon b/c that is pure sugar. so i’ve been eating ALOT of fruit. 🙂 but no rice and no noodles has been very very tough.
Love the sign for your kitchen. Gosh, if I had signs for sweets in my kitchen, they would just remind me to eat more sweets…
I’ve been off sugar before – naturopath’s advice, for systemic candida.
The cravings were intense initially – till I stopped the sugar substitutes etc. and just went cold turkey.
By cold turkey, I mean no fruit, no fruit juices, nothing with more than 5% sugar. No veges with lots of sugar, like sweet potatoes.
The cold turkey treatment really cut down on cravings, and then after a few months I started to re-introduce sweet things – slowly and occasionally.
The best part about it (because there was only one, I didn’t even get any thinner) was that I could taste things SO much better. Even crazily subtle flavours were much clearer.
I’ve been eating sugar again for a few years, but every once in a while I need to cut down again. I now crave salt.
Just in response to some other commentors – I also found that, although the first three days were living hell and I couldn’t follow one sentence to another, after that I was fine.
Also, I did lose weight; about 7lbs.
Oh, sugar! You may recall I had to go sugar-free for health reasons several years ago – as a matter of fact, the 23rd of this month marks my three-year anniversary of being sugar-free. And I’m still constantly amazed at how much better I feel – off of the allergy and sinus meds I used to live on, rarely sick, and when I do get the occasional cold it’s over in half the time it used to take.
I honestly don’t know what the sugar/sinus/cold connection is – I think having excess sugar in one’s system creates a hospitable environment for bacteria to grow, or something – but I do know that there’s something to it.
Email me if you need moral support here – and hang in there!
I was just thinking last night that grapefruit is one of my three favorite foods. Of course, one of the others is chocolate…
The dreaded “yeast” diet, blech, but I hear it works. Happy draining.
Whatever you do or eat, I’m sure it’ll be fun. You’ll make it so. Hope you feel better soon!