[forthetrees]

If you can go a week without sugar, you will have broken the addiction. Check out the Sunday times from early April- the magazine section was all about sugar as a toxin. It promotes inflammation. B/c my body is in uber inflammation state in the nervous system, I had the will power to avoid sugar and have had hardly any since mid April. When I did break down and have a cup of cocoa, I immediately wanted more sweet. Knowing the addiction piece, I was able to resist, but oh, our bodies crave it.


Protein with a bit of fat will satiate you. My new breakfast of champions is a whole wheat English muffin and a fried egg- no butter on the muffin, just the melted butter from cooking the egg. It holds me til lunch.

Love coffee and am not willing to give it up. Have given up eating chocolate in the afternoon and later- keeps me up.

Take the self-care measure of good nutrition.

[Mermaid]

I've heard of sugar as a toxin before. People with food intoleances and allergies (like me) have to be especially careful, because of the inflammatory effect, the effect on unbalancing intestinal flora, among other things.

I'm a sugar addict and a comfort eater, and I know that sugar, chocolate and coffee are bad for me. But now I realise that they worsen the feelings of devastation and betrayal. It's bad enough on its own.

I refuse to give up coffee, but I have reduced it, avoided chocolate and sugar most of the week, and gone running. I feel much better, but I still feel sad. I suppose no amount of good food or bad food can stop that feeling.

[LearningIamOk]

I do not indulge in a lot of sugar so I didn't look at this post until today.  I have been craving chocolate and that is highly unusual for me.  So I have been feeling really miserable and the chocolate has been adding to it.  I do drink coffee but only with half and half.  I don't touch any kind of soda, especially diet, which I read somewhere is like ingesting enbalming fluid.

Also, for anyone who has cysts or cancer or pretty much any other type of ailment, look up the cottage cheese and flaxseed oil diet.  It cured my ovarian cysts and the cyst my daughter had on her breast.  It has a whole diet regimen included, but I only ate the flaxseed oil mixed with organic yogurt(i don't like cottage cheese) and fruit, nuts and honey. Also, it tells you to avoid sugar.

So no more chocolate for me.  Hopefully my dark cloud will lift now.