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Sugar Rehab

January 18, 2008 by Lynette

I’m on Day Five of a self-imposed “Sugar Addiction Rehab”.  I’ve gone from wanting to eat my arm, to merely gnaw on my arm, to just a little licking.  Seriously, this is teeth-gritting hard for me.  I LOVE my sugar!  I love my pastries!  I love my cookies!  I love my candy bars!  I love my sugary chocolatey coffee beverages!  But, I’ve gained yet another ten pounds since October and I felt dangerously close to being unable to tie my own shoes.  So, here I am – an intervention of sorts.

Day one really stunk.  I cheated a little and had some “no sugar added” hot chocolate mid-afternoon.

Day two was less bad.  I thought ahead and bought a fruit at lunch to snack on later.

Day three and four were better. 

Today, there was cake for a coworker’s anniversary.  I decided it best not to even LOOK at that cake.  Still, I noticed later there was one lonely piece sitting in the training room uneaten.  Calling to me sadly “Oh, Lynette!  Why don’t you like me?  Why must I sit here, feeling neglected and drying out.  Whyever have you forsaken me?”  I walked by quickly and tried to ignore its pleas.

I am most certainly not being perfect about this.  The oatmeal I’m eating has 10 grams of sugar in it, according to the box.  No “sugar” listed in the ingredients, but suspicious items like “cane juices”.  Would those be SUGAR cane juices?   Still, I believe in pragmatism and realism, and if I impose unrealistic goals I know I’ll fall on my face (in a pile of cookies, I hope) so I’m just avoiding the really-bad-no-nutritional-value-but-oh-so-delicious sugary delights.

Once I’ve semi-conquered that I can attack the other stuff… like “normal person” portions.  Baby steps!

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  1. on January 18, 2008 at 6:22 pm Pam Kelley

    Ugh! I hate having to watch the amount of sugar I eat! What makes it worse for me, is I can’t drink or eat anything with aspartame or sucralose, because it gives me headaches and makes me meaner than a junkyard dog. 😉


  2. on January 20, 2008 at 5:26 pm Rone

    LOL Lynette trust me it will get easier. Whenever I have a sweet tooth I sip red grapefruit juice (real juice). You might want to give it a try :).


  3. on January 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm Lynette

    Hi Pam!
    Love your blog!

    Hi Rone!
    I love red grapefruit juice. I’ll have to pick some up!


  4. on January 23, 2008 at 4:49 pm Glenn

    your sugar and my wine.
    Only trade pounds for kilos and you see why I can agree. I do not even want wine now unless it is REALLY good…
    My sweet tooth is saved by drinking teas with what the Dutch call Zoethout (sweetwood??). It has a mildly liquorice flavour and one can believe it is sweet. The Star Mix is particularly life saving. Hang ing there!!!


  5. on January 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm Lynette

    I am proud to announce that, thus far, I am indeed hanging in there and have lost a grand total of 5 pounds! 😀


  6. on February 22, 2008 at 12:21 pm JoLynn Braley

    Hi Lynette,

    I’m a sugar addict too, hope you’re still doing great with staying off the sugar. For me I have to stay off of it completely but if you can moderate I think that’s awesome – wish I could do that, but then I guess I wouldn’t have the problems with it that I do, ack! 🙂


  7. on August 9, 2012 at 11:47 am Sugar Addiction – I’m Not The Only One!

    […] put herself in an at-home sugar rehab and shared her experience with it. The more people I see writing about being addicted makes me […]



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