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Sugar sugar, honey honey

What is your Achilles heel? Your kryptonite?

I’m not sure I have a kryptonite.

Achilles heel is definitely sugar. Which sounds pathetic and lame but honestly, of all the things in life I find it the hardest to walk away from.

I used to smoke cigarettes when I was young but only if I was drinking alcohol. Lighting up a smoke when you had a drink in hand was a must. But the next day, don’t come near me with a smoke, ewww, gross.

I really enjoyed having a few drinks back in the day as well, but I could never become dependent on it. When I was young I went out nearly every weekend, to the bar, to a bar somewhere. In college I dragged my roommate Bridgette out nearly every Thursday, Friday AND Saturday.

But when Sunday morning came around, I was never interested in more alcohol.

As far as other substances go, I’ve only tried pot and hash. Pot was never fun for me, hash was but not something I could ever depend on.

That really just leaves sugar. And coffee I suppose. Although somehow I managed to quit my bedtime coffee. I swore for years that it wasn’t affecting my sleep but I think it finally caught up with me. Now I have coffee only in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon.

But sugar, in any form, is my weakness.

If anyone has any tips for breaking this sugar addiction, please please help lol! I’ve tried cold turkey and I’ve tried slowly backing away from it but as soon as it notices me trying to get away it jumps on me.

We drove out to the lake yesterday to do some exploring
So crazy that we have (had) no snow yet!!! Woke up to the ground covered this morning though.
Nothing but us & nature & goose poop & coyote poop

31 responses to “Sugar sugar, honey honey”

  1. Maybe you should literally try cold turkey ๐Ÿคฃ

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    1. Lol thatโ€™s a great idea Kevin ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคญ

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  2. Did The Archies have another hit single besides the Sugar song? I donโ€™t expect you to know this. There was a weekly cartoon show of them also, way back in early seventies. And Jughead showed up on Sesame Street too, I think. I imagine the reruns are still available somewhere.

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    1. Jingle Jangle was their other hit

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    2. I did love reading Archie comics as a kid!! Not sure about the song but I remember vaguely a cartoon Archie series ๐Ÿค”

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      1. I used to read those too. They came in little paperback books, but with pulpy paper. You always found them on magazine stands.

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      2. Yeppers!

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  3. sugar and chocolate

    i ve cut out donuts this year

    and some light walking along iffy air quality

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  4. No snow here in Michigan, and Iโ€™m not complainingโ€ฆ.

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    1. It arrived here overnight ๐Ÿฅถโ˜ƒ๏ธโ„๏ธ

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  5. CJ,

    You and me both.

    I quit soda in 2005 (12oz can has 35 to 40 grams of high fructose corn ๐ŸŒฝ syrup).

    But, if you’ve already sworn off soda, then I would say any other sugary drink ( fruit juice from concentrate has a lot too).

    I crave chocolate ๐Ÿซ after dinner. But at Aldi I found they have an 85% cocoa dark chocolate that only has 3 grams of sugar. It is loaded in magnesium and zinc and antioxidants.

    1 little bar is enough (unlike milk chocolate that just triggers the ‘MORE’ button in the brain ๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿ˜„

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    1. Okay I tried the have-a-little-bit-of-dark-chocolate thing to curb the craving for lots of chocolate, but I had to quit the dark chocolate thing cold turkey because for me it was the gateway drug ๐Ÿคญ
      Once I had some I just craved more more more! Seems I be reasonable and just have a little ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

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      1. Hmm…๐Ÿคซ
        Well then, the other thing I learned was to look out for the ‘sneaky’ sugars.
        These are foods that disguise themselves as being healthy, but when you read the label, are actually loaded in added sugar.
        Yogurt, spaghetti sauce, wheat bread, many cold breakfast cereals, certain brands of peanut butter, etc.
        I just started reading the labels at the grocery store and found the ones with the least sugar (Greek yogurt usually is lower in sugar and higher in protein than Yoplait or Dannon).
        Also, alcohol immediately is converted to sugar in the body.
        As well as starches like potatoes, white rice and pasta made from white flour.

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  6. i guess if anything, you can try different types of sugars. i use coconut sugar as a sweetener!

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    1. Ooh Iโ€™ve never tried that actually! Thanks Mike!

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  7. I โค๏ธ sugar too. Youโ€™re not blonde anymore?? Did I miss a post?

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    1. Lol Mary I could write an entire book about my hair nevermind a blog post ๐Ÿ˜‚
      I went back to brown, although itโ€™s still not dark enough for my liking, because I couldnโ€™t be satisfied with the blonde. They wouldnโ€™t put more bleach on it because itโ€™s too damaged and I just didnโ€™t like how it was going! I started the process in February and at least $3000 later and I hated what I saw in the mirror ๐Ÿ˜
      I got impatient I guess. My hair stylist was not happy lol

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      1. Oh no! 3K! But youโ€™re a natural brunette beautyโ€”ร  la Snow White. Good decision.

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  8. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Aww! You, nature, and poop… awesome! ๐Ÿคฃ

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    1. Lol ๐Ÿ˜‚

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  9. I wish I could give you some tips for giving up sugar, because that would mean I had given it up. I keep trying to cut it in half, but who knows what half is at this point. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    1. I think I mighy start food journaling, writing down every damn thing I put in my mouth!

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  10. I suggest that as your townโ€™s newly elected official, you convene โ€œfact finding tripsโ€ to Switzerland, Germany, maybe Costa Rico and Hawaii to find out about chocolates/sweets so you can issue PSAs ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Ž

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    1. Darryl that is an amazing idea!!! Iโ€™ll bring that to council and see what they say ๐Ÿคญ

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  11. Who isn’t addicted to sugar? Come on! I’ve cut back for some good reasons (connecting sugar to migraine-causing inflammation was one) and knowing what too much sugar resulted in helped.
    But I have to do things gradually if I want to make change that lasts. So for instance I can still have some of my neighbour’s homemade cookies, but only 2, not 4. Or I can still have a chocolate bar, but only on the weekend, not every day. As long as I’m not depriving myself completely, I can do it and it gets easier over time.
    Also helps to put sweets (if I have them in the house at all, which is obviously self-sabotage) out of sight, not leaving them on the kitchen counter where they tempt me each time I walk by.
    Change in small gradual increments is the only way I’ve ever exchanged new healthier habits for old ones, and the new ones have stuck.

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    1. As I said to Stephanie I might try food journaling. It worked well when I did Weight watchers. My cutting back wonโ€™t cut back and that is the problem! Keeping it out of the house definitely will help and all this Halloween candy around has made it difficult ๐Ÿ˜ฅ ๐Ÿ˜‚
      Even at my work, I just know that the bookstore downstairs has a whole selection of chocolate bars waiting for me to come down there and pick one up! Sometimes, oftentimes, I collapse under the pressure!

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  12. i can do without sugar but not the savory lol

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    1. The damn sugar!!!!! ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

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  13. My kryptonite is caffeine and cigarettes. I used to smoke only when I drank. But now I no longer drink, but I still smoke. I caffeinate myself until Iโ€™m quite jumpy lol ๐Ÿ˜‚. For some reason, I prefer savoury to sweet. It was the other way round when I was younger.

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