Are you a little bit nervous about the upcoming holidays? Did Halloween throw your “cut back on sugar” plans off a little?
The holidays are tough.
One of the things we work on constantly here at SugarAddiction.com is the decoupling of sugar and love.
Seriously.
Sugar’s circuitous path into our lives over the last 300 or 400 years has evolved, through both marketing and simply not knowing, into a kind of “love drug”.
It’s not a surprise as we’ve learned recently. Sugar affects the same regions of the brain that love does – these tests are very conclusive.
We give it to kids under one year of age and smile at their enjoyment of it.
“Oh, that’s so cute”
The candy to kids thing is pretty well documented. Lots of candy and sugar marketing is towards kids.
We give it as a literal token of our love to our wives, girlfriends, and mothers in the form of heart-shaped boxes stuffed with chocolate.
Entire holidays have been co-opted into sugar and candy holidays. Valentine’s Day, Easter and Halloween.
It gets even stickier when Thanksgiving and Christmas roll around.
Then there is, in addition to all the candies, cookies and other baked goods you can buy to give and eat, the baked goods made at home with love and the traditions shared around doing just that.
Different folks have their Gingerbread houses and their Christmas cookies.
Heck, my mother never baked anything but oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and those terrible tasting Christmas cookies. The taste of the Christmas cookies was bad but the hanging with my mom and doing all the patterns was awesome. (The chocolate chip cookies were good BTW.)
It’s a real intertwined mess.
People think I have some vendetta against sugar, the sugar companies and the love that is sharing sugary things with loved ones.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
If this were 300 years ago when these traditions first developed we would have no problems.
Why?
Because that was about our allotment of sugar for the YEAR!
That’s right, the year.
We had this special treat during the holidays and we rarely saw sugar till next Christmas. It’s true.
But today!
Do I have to even spell it out?
Today we just zigged when we should have zagged.
I’m not going to spell out the whole story of fat vs sugar that went the wrong way thirty years ago. You can check it out here.
Suffice it to say we are now overrun by sugar everywhere, from our food supply to our beverages and it’s causing some of us some health and weight problems.
The “special treats” a few times a year have evolved into a daily habit and it happened so slowly that no one even noticed. Well, a few people noticed but they were effectively silenced.
What you have to decide is what your commitment to changing your personal habits around sugar are going to be.
My father used to say, when I would say: “but everybody is doing it”, – “If everybody was jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge would you jump too?”
This commitment does take some “separating from the herd.” Some “choosing the path less taken”. LOL, OK, enough sayings for one post.
But seriously, if you’ve done your research and you’ve decided that you want to at least know what a life of sugar freedom looks like then we can help.
We can’t shout louder than all those guys who do sugar detoxes as a side gig. Those fitness types who think that’s what you want to hear.
We’re here for the folks for whom quitting sugar has become a necessity, a life necessity. Possibly a diabetes diagnosis, a serious weight issue or some other health problem.
Don’t get me wrong we can help anyone with a sugar issue and many of our clients just want to lose a few pounds. But by and large, our clients tend to be people at the end of their rope, metaphorically speaking.
They’ve tried all the other guys and it’s time to get serious.
If that’s you then let’s get started. Quit Sugar Now.
Don’t make the commitment to me.
Make the commitment to yourself.
If you start now you’ll be nice and stable through the holidays and you won’t have that ever present New Year’s resolution to quit sugar or to lose weight.
See you on the inside: Quit Sugar Now.
