Sugar Isn’t Just Sugar to Me
Have you ever felt resentful that you can’t just have one dessert or one treat? I have. Many, many times. But over the years I have come to realize something: When I eat sugar I don’t feel what the average person feels. I feel something completely different.
My family and I could be eating the exact same thing and while they were simply enjoying a cookie, I would be getting a hit of what may as well be heroin.
This is because I am sugar sensitive. I don’t react to sugar like my family does. I can’t take it and then leave it. If I take one bite it will light up my reward center and a little won’t be enough. I will want MORE.
I was reminded of this recently when my family had chocolate cake. Everyone had a big piece and a couple scoops of ice cream and I promptly threw the rest in the trash. I knew I was safe to throw it away because I knew from experience that no one would ask for seconds. In fact, none of them even finished their first serving!
As I scraped my family’s unfinished chunks of delicious looking cake into the trash I thought about how to my family that cake was just that, “cake.” It tasted good, like a treat, and that was it. But to me, that cake was like a drug. Sure, it tasted great, but I’m not after the taste. I’m after how it makes me feel. I know from experience that a few moments after I take my first bite the effects would kick in and leave me wanting more.
The good news is, I know my solution! Abstinence is the cure. As long as I don’t eat my trigger foods I won’t crave sugar! I have intense peace and gratitude to myself for understanding this… For understanding why I can never have what they can so easily take or leave, and for knowing how to accomplish it long-term. This realization has squashed my resentment and given me so much empathy for myself, and so much gratitude to God.
If you are like me and don’t react to sugar like everyone around you, just know, You are not alone!
In Freedom,
Sarah Grace
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