It all started with my reading this (now badly-formatted) post on one of the many diet blogs I was reading at the time, which describes the sugar quiz in Potatoes Not Prozac (scroll down the page to "Diagnosing Sugar Sensitivity"), and realizing that *all* the items in that quiz described me. It was a scary moment, realizing how much of an effect sugar was having in my life.
At the time, I was really just looking for yet another diet plan, another way to lose the weight that simply refused to come off. What I got instead was life-changing.
As I wrote on my old, now-defunct blog back in June of 2009, these are the things I gave up when I gave up sugar:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- PMS
- Crazy thoughts
- Self-loathing
- Worry about my weight and how my body looks
- Feeling done-to
- Crying constantly out of sheer frustration at the perversity of the universe
- Anger at the unfairness of the world
- Feeling apart from the world
- Not feeling totally human, feeling like The Other in every situation
- Feeling isolated and inadequate
- Feeling overwhelmed
- Taking everything that happened personally
- Cravings, especially for sugary and fatty things
- Hiding my "special" foods, and feeling panicked if my chocolate supply dropped down too low
- Bingeing on sugar and processed carbs
- Being overwhelmed by other people's pain
- Having an incredibly low pain threshold
- Feeling the need for The Drama, and unconsciously looking for *any* way to create it
- Always waiting for the other shoe to drop
- Always expecting the worst
- Being afraid of my emotions
- Blurring my emotions with food
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