People Can Be Sweet

The craving doesn’t go away. After a lifetime of sweet-eating and reward-based positive reinforcement, sweets are wired into our psyche.

Last week I attended a birthday dinner. It was delicious. Then dessert came out. It looked delicious as well and I wanted some.

Moosetracks Ice Cream

The thing that triggered my desire to binge was the Moosetracks ice cream. I’m not sure why, but I really wanted to eat it. I CRAVED IT. But I know better.

After being off sweets for a long time it’s just a matter of avoiding the “moment of desire” that will and does pass. And I had help.

Gwenn’s mother made sugar-free cookies (sweetened with bananas). She’s awesome like that. I can eat these cookies all day. Do they contain sugar? Yes. There are natural sugars from the bananas in there as well as unsweetend carob chips and walnuts. But there’s no added or refined sugar.

The average person would not like these cookies. They’d say there is no taste or that they’re not sweet enough. Gwenn’s mother doesn’t even like them and she made them.

Who needs sweets when you have sweet people?

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