The Worst Sugar Binge
My worst binge was a two-week long indulgence after having quit sugar for one year. I was working on my senior thesis for college and housesitting at the same time. After dropping my friend at the airport, I stopped at the supermarket and walked the aisles looking for every type of favorite band of sweet I had not eaten the previous year. When I was checking out I felt embarrassed until I realized that my product choices didn’t look very different from other people who were checking out.
I purchased Captain Crunch, Pop Tarts, Chocolate Chip Granola Bars, Chocolate Covered Pretzels, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, and all kinds of stuff I can’t even recall now. The first week I was up all night and writing like a banshee. The second week I began to crash and couldn’t even stand the thought of eating a bag of Sun Chips so I burned them in the fireplace (Sun Chips burn a blue flame).
After a year I had conditioned my body to not like sweets. By the end of the two weeks I was dying for something healthy!
What was your worst sugar binge like?
(2) Comments: The Worst Sugar Binge
Marion
Apr 06, 2008
The internet is a great things if you try to find people who fight the same battles… in germany, there are no sites about quitting sugar, because almost nobody believes that sugar can be a drug that produces addiction. Although many people know that too much sugar is not healthy, it’s still seen as a normal food, and it’s in almost everything. There are many health food stores in germany, and 10 years ago it was easy to buy sugarfree things there. today, in all these organic yogurts and so on, everywher you find sugar.
I’ve tried quitting several times, and each time I felt much better after only some weeks: no more chapped skin on the fingers (which is a big problem of mine, i almost always need adhesive plaster - it dissappears when i avoid sugar!), more energy, and, which is the most importnt: more appetite for good food, i enjoyed eating much more. and i hate being addicted, but this is a life-long subject fpr me (i quit alcohol and cigarettes 5 years ago and i’m still very glad and thankful about that every day).
I want to quit sugar again, and i need others who write about their experiences and that i write myself, too.
I wish you all a great, sugarfree day!
whimsy
Apr 07, 2008
I’ve had sugar (especially in the form of milk chocolate) almost every day for the last several months. After many false starts I told myself I’d quit sugar for 12 days and then binge on a chocolate milkshake on the 13th day. For some reason, I was able to go the 12 days. It was hard, especially every afternoon when I was looking for a snack, and after every dinner when I was seeking dessert. But I made it through the 12 days. Yesterday was the 13th day. I ended up having a tapioca pearl drink and a sundae made of chocolate ice cream, coffee ice cream, marshmallow and fudge (instead of lunch).
It’s almost 5 in the morning and I haven’t slept yet because of the sugar. I told myself I’d go another 12 days without it and binge again on the 13th day.
I hope I can make it through Day 1 again.
I still eat some processed foods. I’m sure there’s sugar in the cream cheese that comes with my bagel, but 12 days without chocolate or dessert was a miracle for me. I’d sure like to repeat it.
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