Sugar-Free
Stairway to Heaven — The Beginning
The beginning of any goal you want to accomplish is the hardest whether it’s to get up early in the morning, or lose some weight, or setting a schedule to complete a project. It’s never easy. I want you to know that it isn’t easy, not in the least before you try or attempt to be sugar-free. It’s an on-going, lifelong, day in, day out the challenge and a battle with your mind, your brain cells, and every part of you that craves anything sweetened with white sugar, or any of its relatives or cousins.
I realized a very long time ago that I couldn’t stop because of its addictive qualities and I had the kind of brain cells that made me an addict. It started when I was a young kid. I could walk past my backyard, past one house, and there it was. A candy store and an ice cream bar. The kind of store where you could buy candy for a penny or two and look through a glass frame that had shelves of candy inboxes. All you had to do was point and choose, “I’ll have one of these, and this one, and that one.” And if you had a dime or quarter, you could get quite a lot. At the front of my house was a noisy bus stop at the corner, cross the street, and there was a pharmacy with a cascading section of shelves filled with candy bars. Cross one more street to the left of the pharmacy, and there was a bakery. It was a non-stop sugar fest within a circle around where I lived. Not a sweets place, but a pizza restaurant, across the street from the bakery, led to pizza and soda from time to time. There was no getting away from the sweets paradise I called home.
It wasn’t until I was in my twenties, married with kids, that I realized my dependence on it, mostly after I read the shockingly, and highly researched book on sugar entitled, Sugar Blues by William Dufty. It was such an eye-opener and the truth of it went straight to my insides, the heart of my problem with sugar, igniting a will to change. I had no idea of its destructiveness, its addictiveness, and that what I’d been told growing up, was devoid of the knowledge and real truth about it, being told only that basically, it gave you energy.
Sugar is devoid of all nutrition. The more you eat it, the more you desire it. And if your brain cells are sensitive to sugar, rather you have the type of brain chemistry that can and will make you addicted to sugar or…
