Yesterday, I was walking while my kids were in taekwondo when I stopped in my tracks. Scattered over the sidewalk in front of me were little pieces of my past. PEZ! When I was a kid I would buy the Pez multi-packs and not even bother putting them in the dispenser. Scandalous. Oh how I [...]
Last week, I was sad. It happens. On my way home from errands I decided to stop here because I was depressed hot and wanted a cool drink. And a distraction from the aching feeling that my life wasn’t enough. (Ultimately, I know I am enough but sometimes it just doesn’t feel like it.) “Candy, [...]
I think I may have overestimated my will power. Maybe I’m not ready for chapter three of The Great Sugar Experiment. Tuesday night, my husband mentioned he had been wanting ice cream all day. We were sitting on the couch and he looked so tired, sweet, and cuddly. I wanted to do something nice for [...]
As some of you know I had a secret affair with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. A serious sugar addiction. On December 31st, 2007, I decided I would not eat candy, cookies, ect. for a year. A year rolled by and I surprisingly kept my promise to myself. So I decided to spend another year [...]
It’s not just me, those other “health nuts”, or dentists who think Americans need to reduce their sugar consumption. The American Heart Association released a statement on Monday saying sugar can contribute to heart attacks. From CNN.com (CNN) – A sweet tooth could lead to a heart attack, the American Heart Association warns. Americans are [...]
The Cabinet is the cabinet above my fridge, It is where we store my gum, back-up coffee, party trays, loads of napkins from Costco, our kid’s income (No allowance in this house…they earn money with chores.) and……The Sugar Saturday Candy. Not long ago, there were some candy corns in a zipplock baggy in The Cabinet. [...]
The other day my family and I went into a little gelato shop after visiting our alma mater Westmont College. Over the past year and a half, I’ve learned to deal with these little occurrences without much grief but for some reason this particular trip was different. The flavors of gelato lined up in the [...]
Over the past few months I’ve received quite a few emails from people who are thinking about giving up refined (or even all) sugar. I think that’s so rad that so many people are even considering it. This past week I got a list of really great questions and I decided to post them in [...]
I bought The Sugar Addict’s Total Recovery Program by Kathleen DesMaisons a few years ago when I was feeling really desperate. While I don’t agree with everything in the book it is a fanatastic resource for those who feel like their dependency on sugar may be related to their depression or getting in the way [...]
I received a very moving email the other day and in it the sender asked me how I cut sugar out of my life and how was I able to fill the void that sugar was filling, with something else? They also wanted to know how I made that final commitment to remove sugar from my [...]
