I have been on a sugar binge lately. I am so lethargic, spacey and , hence, Remembering to Breathe. I don’t think I would have noticed the connection between my food choices and my mood prior to being romantically involved with a preachy vegan. He has been lecturing me about my food choices.
I have been stress eating for the last week or two. What surprises me consistently is the amount of sugar I am compelled to put between my lips. It is insane! I am a sugar addict there I said it (Everyone in the horseshoe shaped audience in front of me is clapping). I am stressing because I am nursing but am gaining weight instead of loosing. All of this sugar can’t be good for my wee one. Every night I go to bed with the resolve to end my addiction to sugar. It has not happened yet.
What has been happening is a vicious cycle in which I stress and then I eat and get larger and then I stress some more and then I eat and get larger and then I stress some more…..
Obviously, I have to do something about this pattern. After doing some research on-line, I discovered that sugar addiction is quite common amongst women ans is thought to be the body’s way of trying to fix a metabolic imbalance. Some site depression as the deficiency and others attribute the imbalance to a lack of protein.
Whatever the issue is I am determined to gain control and beat this once and for all!
This was orginally penned March 17, 2009
