Damned if you do
Jul. 15th, 2007 16:36![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillOver the past week, I've been working to cut refined sugar out of my diet. I realized that my thinking was muddy, my energy was low, and I generally felt like crap... and I was aware of the fact that I really wasn't eating well. Lots of sugar, lots of HFCS, lots of refined carbs. Generally, if I go back to a meat-and-veggies existence, I think more clearly and I have more energy.
I haven't been completely successful yet -- the cravings have been hideous this time around (it baffles me that people don't believe me when I say I get withdrawal symptoms from sugar). I've been eating huge amounts of vegetables and other okay things, just eating almost all the time, because the cravings are so fierce and I'm not giving in to them. I'm still trying to kill the urge to go out and buy a tin of cake frosting and eat it straight.
The cravings usually go away within about ten days. In the meantime, I've been feeling much better, like I can actually think and get stuff done rather than lie around the house. This is good.
At least, until this morning, when I realized that my eyes were stinging because caustic skin oil from my face had made its way into them -- I'm in the middle of a detox cycle. I'm listless and fatigued, and too paranoid to leave the house. This is bad.
Summary: cutting sugar out of my diet has shifted my metabolism back to the point that I no longer feel like crap, but it's also shifted my metabolism enough that I've started to lose weight again, and the toxins stored in the fat are making me feel like crap. My usual way of slowing down weight loss is... to eat more HFCS.
Great. Now what?
I haven't been completely successful yet -- the cravings have been hideous this time around (it baffles me that people don't believe me when I say I get withdrawal symptoms from sugar). I've been eating huge amounts of vegetables and other okay things, just eating almost all the time, because the cravings are so fierce and I'm not giving in to them. I'm still trying to kill the urge to go out and buy a tin of cake frosting and eat it straight.
The cravings usually go away within about ten days. In the meantime, I've been feeling much better, like I can actually think and get stuff done rather than lie around the house. This is good.
At least, until this morning, when I realized that my eyes were stinging because caustic skin oil from my face had made its way into them -- I'm in the middle of a detox cycle. I'm listless and fatigued, and too paranoid to leave the house. This is bad.
Summary: cutting sugar out of my diet has shifted my metabolism back to the point that I no longer feel like crap, but it's also shifted my metabolism enough that I've started to lose weight again, and the toxins stored in the fat are making me feel like crap. My usual way of slowing down weight loss is... to eat more HFCS.
Great. Now what?
