Don’t Try This At Home!

After eight months of being sugar free, I performed a very deliberate experiment and ate ice cream on Sunday at the Tillamook Cheese factory in Tillamook, Oregon.

If you are from Oregon you are familiar with Tillamook cheese and ice cream. Eating Tillamook ice cream at the factory is about as fresh and tasty as it gets. After a large (unsweetened) lunch I spooned one scoop each of Mudslide, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Peanut-Butter-Chocolate into my system. Oddly enough, eating sugar wasn’t a big deal. It tasted just like it always did, but kind of boring. It was like returning to your old school to find it small and empty. Still, I found myself thinking about eating M&Ms candy on the ride home to Portland. Instead I ate an apple.

Today (Monday) my body feels fine. There are no ill effects. To be critical, I feel more thirsty today than usual and I’m definitely feeling tired, but I wake up early on Monday mornings so it’s hard to tell if that’s got anything to do with the sugar.

The End Result:
I’m not missing anything and I don’t want to go back to eating sugar. I don’t want to try to become a “moderate” sugar eater. I like being far on the unsweet side.

Won’t you join me?

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