i'm cutting back on sugar and just last week or the week before i went seven days without any significant added sugar. i'd have a teaspoon of jam with eggs in the morning and a small amount of maple syrup in my coffee and that's about it. well, also dried and canned fruit but with no added sugar. it was great! i did miss a few low-glycemic treats like these scones i make or banana bread but i wasn't desperately fighting back a binge.
since then i have made a few apple crumbles and stuff like that but kept the sugar relatively low. a couple of days ago i made the (i want to say 'mistake' but i did do it on purpose) choice to bake my favourite chocolate chip cookies. my intention was to devour the cookies (i mean, that's why i made them), but not to take the opportunity to completely pig out on everything else at the same time (which is what happened). i'm pretty sure it was the sugar that sent me spiraling out of control.
it's interesting to me that my desire to eat for enjoyment almost completely disappeared when i'd finished the cookies and returned to my low sugar eating. when i finished them, i was still 'nicking' for some sugar fix for several hours after my last cookie. since i just didn't have anything sweet in the house besides those cookies, i didn't feed that craving. it feels like as soon as my blood sugar went back to normal, i was satiated and just didn't have the urge to eat. it's a great lesson! i don't think it's that unhealthy to have periods of excessive eating like 'cheat days', because i mean, christmas right? but i definitely do not want to be trapped in old cycles of bad behaviour. it's nice to know how to stop and i really think this has been a key experience to learning how to regain my self control after a binge or feast.
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