Sugar

I have just made a momentous commitment to myself:  I'm going off all empty-calorie, sugary snacks.  I seem to go from one to another; for a while, I'll pig out every day on one favorite, until I take myself by the scruff* of the neck and make myself stop.  Before long, I'm onto a different favorite.

I Googled the question, "how does sugar affect arthritis" and looked over several pages of links, hoping for something fairly scholarly, as opposed to Cousin Ginny's "research" and personal experience...whoever Cousin Ginny might be.  In six or seven pages of links, I didn't find anything that looked directly applicable and reasonably reliable, but I did peruse one document that purported to tell all the ways sugar--especially the stuff that isn't a natural part of foods, like fructose--is harmful to our bodies.  Some of it I already knew; who hasn't heard that sugar will rot your teeth?  Some I hadn't heard, and I don't know if any of it was based in junk science, but it was convincing enough that I just threw out almost half a canister of my latest and greatest snack.

You might notice that I haven't identified any of my favorite sugar "fixes."  I would really hate for someone with a similar problem to read this post, with snacks named, and say, "Oooh, that sounds good!" and then go to the store and start pigging out on them.  I don't need that guilt.  Got enough of my own!

Who knows?  Maybe I'll lose weight more easily, too.

*Does anyone know what this is??

Comments

[bryonm]

I'll be praying for you as you go through withdrawals from all the crap. I need to do the same thing.

[Vicki Small]

Oh, geez...I hadn't thought about withdrawal! Yeah, prayer will be good, thanks!

[Beverly]

I wish you well.