Potato Chips Are Sugarfree

Note to self: Just because I stop eating sugar does not mean I can eat a bag of potato chips at night and expect to lost weight.

Is this really just about losing weight? Really, for me, it is much more about regaining a sense of confidence in myself. I want to prove to myself that I can be a disciplined person, that a substance, any substance, does not have power over me. This my body!! I am stronger than that, and I intend to prove that to myself, once again in this middle of my life, when I could go very soft, but instead I am going to get very strong.

Sugar is not food; it is a substance that has been unnaturally added to many foods, and many things can be made from it, but that does not mean it is meant to be eaten. People make sculptures from sugar and white flour; doesn't it strike you that the same cannot be done with bananas, or lettuce, or meat, or even whole wheat flour?These things sustain life; they get moldy if left in the open air, as they begin to feed the spores and bacteria. A sculpture made from white flour and sugar can stand indefinitely; lifeless. The little pastries that I buy at the French Pastry shop here in town are miniature sculptures of sugar and white flour, and I have been putting them into my body for years. Today what I think about that is: ugh.

Last night I did go out and buy "Coconut Bliss", an icecream sweetened only with agave and made with coconut milk. It is outrageously good. I am not going to try and do this without good food, or treats once in awhile. They will just have to not have sugar in them.