This is difficult to quantify, since there’s sugar hiding in everything and I don’t keep track. But just to give a general ballpark idea, I’d say my sugar intake, left unchecked, ranges from “relatively high” to “if you cut me, I would literally bleed chocolate syrup.”
State how you usually feel about eating sugar
According to AncestryDNA, I have a variant form of one of the three genes associated with taste perception which makes me especially sensitive to sweet flavors as well as bitter. I can attest to the latter but not the former. For example, I think green juices made from kale taste like ass sweat squeezed out of old hemp underwear, but I do not experience anything similar with regard to sweets. I love sweets.
In fact, I love sweets so much that it has become an active threat to my health. Consequently, I often feel guilty for eating them. Lately, I have been replacing sweets with more nutritional options.
Change your habits today
Check; however, please note that I have not attempted to track or eliminate the “hidden sugars” in, say, sandwich bread, ketchup, etc.
Report on how that influenced your feelings?
Well, because I have been swapping out sweets for healthier snacks that actually offer some nutritional benefit, I have noticed a marked improvement in my mood overall. I’m more patient. My skin looks better. I sleep better. I think more clearly and can concentrate for longer. I’m less “jittery” and far more motivated to do things that are constructive.
I don’t know if these improvements are all caused by the dietary changes, but I don’t know what else to attribute them to. Probably to some degree it’s simply placebo effect and positive feedback loops. I have noticed on days when I am overly indulgent in sugar, I end up feeling like crap, sometimes for a couple days, but I suspect this is at least partly because that is what I’m expecting.
Sometimes after a healthy meal I feel euphoria similar to the “high” one gets from exercising. It is very different from the “high” one gets from eating “bad” foods.
And yet...I find that I still WANT to eat sugar, which at this point I’m beginning to think should be a schedule 1 controlled substance.
State how much sugar you usually take daily
This is difficult to quantify, since there’s sugar hiding in everything and I don’t keep track. But just to give a general ballpark idea, I’d say my sugar intake, left unchecked, ranges from “relatively high” to “if you cut me, I would literally bleed chocolate syrup.”
State how you usually feel about eating sugar
According to AncestryDNA, I have a variant form of one of the three genes associated with taste perception which makes me especially sensitive to sweet flavors as well as bitter. I can attest to the latter but not the former. For example, I think green juices made from kale taste like ass sweat squeezed out of old hemp underwear, but I do not experience anything similar with regard to sweets. I love sweets.
In fact, I love sweets so much that it has become an active threat to my health. Consequently, I often feel guilty for eating them. Lately, I have been replacing sweets with more nutritional options.
Change your habits today
Check; however, please note that I have not attempted to track or eliminate the “hidden sugars” in, say, sandwich bread, ketchup, etc.
Report on how that influenced your feelings?
Well, because I have been swapping out sweets for healthier snacks that actually offer some nutritional benefit, I have noticed a marked improvement in my mood overall. I’m more patient. My skin looks better. I sleep better. I think more clearly and can concentrate for longer. I’m less “jittery” and far more motivated to do things that are constructive.
I don’t know if these improvements are all caused by the dietary changes, but I don’t know what else to attribute them to. Probably to some degree it’s simply placebo effect and positive feedback loops. I have noticed on days when I am overly indulgent in sugar, I end up feeling like crap, sometimes for a couple days, but I suspect this is at least partly because that is what I’m expecting.
Sometimes after a healthy meal I feel euphoria similar to the “high” one gets from exercising. It is very different from the “high” one gets from eating “bad” foods.
And yet...I find that I still WANT to eat sugar, which at this point I’m beginning to think should be a schedule 1 controlled substance.