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A LITTLE BIT OF SUGAR

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/15/2014 • ( 20 )

Daily Prompt: Pour Some Sugar on Me

I’m not a big sweet eater anymore. It has nothing to do with discipline or self-control. It just happened. Especially chocolate. I was a fanatic about chocolate, but these days, other flavors have more appeal.

I can’t eat a lot of sugar anyhow. My blood sugar and I made a deal. I lay off the heavy sugar fixes and it won’t make me sick. It’s pretty basic. I know if I eat more than a little of anything sugary, I will pay and I won’t like the terms. It’s enough to make me think twice.

I can eat a little, more in the morning. It sits better early (rather than late) in the day. I’m sure there’s a reason for that, but don’t know what it might be. In compensation, I spend an inordinate amount of time planning to bake. But I don’t. I also plan to buy sweeties but inevitably forget to put them in the cart. If I bake or buy, I eat and grow fat. Which brings me to the next issue.

I’m watching my weight. Mainly, I’m watching it rise. I know for a fact (popular diet mythology notwithstanding) plans and intentions don’t make one fat. You have to really eat the stuff. Sniffing it, being near it, looking at and longing for it — all free. Despite my best efforts, I’ve been putting on weight slowly but steadily for a few years, ever since the drugs I took following breast cancer killed my metabolism. After the surgery and the drugs, my body changed. I eat the same — same stuff, same amounts — as I did before. It kept me thin for a long time, but now, not.

I made peace with my rounded self. I can’t eat much less. The injustice of it keeps hitting me. If I’m going to grow round anyhow, shouldn’t I get to have an orgiastic eating experience?

In lieu of other sweets, I eat fruit. With or without Splenda, depending on season and fruit. This time of year, the only good fruit we get is citrus. Grapefruit and oranges. I eat a lot of them. Fortunately, I love fruit. And vegetables.

My non-standard digestive system doesn’t like this stuff nearly as much as my mouth does, so I have to be careful. Moderation. I keep it down to two pieces of citrus and one order of veggies per day. That same picky system also doesn’t care much for carbs. It’s okay with modest quantities of rice and potatoes, is intolerant of pasta and bread. I can eat some. One slice of bread. A few forks of pasta. More gets dodgy.

Beverages? Nothing with sugar. Make me sick. Fast.

In self-defense, I’ve learned to enjoy a little bit of whatever I want. A tiny amount of jam on an English muffin. A dribble of syrup on a waffle. A half a cookie. A bite of cake. If I ate more, it wouldn’t taste better, right? And — I eat desserts ever so slowly. When everyone else has washed the dishes and gone off to watch TV or whatever, I’m still working my way through a dollop of pudding.

Our bodies are forever changing. This is Truth today, but who knows what it will be in a few weeks? Everything changes. If we aren’t dead, we are changing, metamorphosing into whatever we will be. I can handle it.

Well, I think I can. I am definitely going to try.

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20 replies

Rose
03/15/2014 • 15:56

Pink grapefruit with sugar is my favorite, but it is just never around the grocery stores here.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/15/2014 • 16:16
  
  We get citrus from Florida since we are on the east coast and so far, so good. The bad weather has too badly affected the crops. You’re in the middle, so you must get a lot of stuff from Texas, Mexico some from both Florida and California. The good thing about this area is seafood. Seafood is not cheap, but it’s plentiful 🙂 We are dependent on other states for produce — anything we can’t grow ourselves … which is almost everything except apples and potatoes. At least you get great corn. We used to, but most of the farmers who grew it sold their farms to developers and moved to Kansas and Iowa where they could buy better land cheaper.
  
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  - Rose
    03/15/2014 • 16:32
    
    Yes, the corn here is amazing. And the tomatoes…oh the tomatoes! Now I’m hungry for a BLT with corn on the cob. 😀
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      03/15/2014 • 18:09
      
      There’s always a trade off. I’d go with the corn and tomatoes!
      
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ranu802
03/15/2014 • 15:50

I think you have a lot of self control. I stay away from cookies once I eat one I want more so I try not to eat it. But if I try one I end up having more than two.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/15/2014 • 15:52
  
  I swear it isn’t self control. Sugar makes me sick. Very sick. The amount of misery eating sweets creates isn’t worth the brief pleasure of eating!
  
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  - ranu802
    03/15/2014 • 19:21
    
    Oh I get it. I didn’t know you get sick. It’s a good reason to stay away from sweets.
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      03/15/2014 • 19:58
      
      Yes. Very motivating 🙂
      
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angloswiss
03/15/2014 • 13:36

Am very much with you on the subject of changing bodies. things I used to be able to eat and drink I have to be careful with today. My recycling process does its own thing now and again. I can no longer drink coffee and avoid thick soup. Perhaps it has to do with various pills, I never thought of that. I grow round, but Mr. Swiss is always a step ahead, so I don’t mind.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  03/15/2014 • 13:38
  
  In the insult to injury department, as I grow rounder, Garry gets skinnier. I keep offering to give him a few pounds … maybe more than a few … but so far, no luck 🙂
  
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