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.
I am sugar sensitive. I don’t react to sugar like my family does. I can’t take it or 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.
Recently my family had chocolate cake. They never specifically ask for a dessert, so I happily obliged. I went to Whole Foods and got a decadent chocolate cake with ice cream. I brought it back and gave everyone 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 on the spot because I knew from experience that no one would ask for seconds. In fact, not even one of them finished their first serving!
I was reminded again as I scraped their unfinished chunks of delicious looking cake into the trash can: To my family, that cake is just cake. It tastes good, like a treat, and that’s it. But to me, that cake is like a drug. It tastes 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 are going to kick in and leave me wanting more.
But 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.
I pray that you give yourself kindness and love today if you don’t react to sugar like others do. You are not alone!
In Freedom,
Sarah Grace
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