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May
15, Tuesday
[from my post on MOMYS]
[another mom wrote]: "I think it's just all my life I've felt entitled to have sweets, and my thinking is just changing now, slowly."
YES
- that! I think one reason why it hasn't been all that hard to give
up sugar is the mental switch: I used to think of sugar as a "treat"
or a sort of reward for all my hard work, so I associated it with
pleasure and approval. Now that I'm keeping a food journal (and yes,
Sugar: The Bitter Truth played a big part in the mental switch, too), I'm beginning to associate sugar with pain (anxiety, insecurity,
feelings of aloneness, sleepiness, fatigue) and instead of longing
for sugar, I am longing for life! And thanks to Potatoes, Not Prozac,
I know to go to protein foods and complex carbs to keep myself even
and lively.
But when, I have to ask, does the 'tons
of energy' start? I'm sooo thrilled for my allergy symptoms to
have all but disappeared, and do NOT miss the anxiety or the
low-blood-sugar-sleepiness that I had all the time without realizing
what it was. But I am still balking at the sight of the elliptical,
and spending a lot of time doing sit-down work. Not motivated to go
weed flowerbeds or anything.
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