Ok so in one of my previous posts I said that I quit processed sugar for 6 days which enabled me to overcome sugar addiction. Some of you warned that sugar was sneaky and that it might slip back into my habits without even noticing.
And you were right.
My memory is a bit hazy but I remember wanting to make this post a few times for transparency.
I think I went processed sugar free until about.... July 2020. In August 2020 we went to Germany with my family and they have... A lot of delicious cakes haha. And on top of that my family generally has a lot of sweet snacks available and I just like baking cakes so all those factors combined made and soon I was indulging in sugary stuff again.
But ! I do wanna say that right now, my relationship with sugar and with food in general seems to me the best it has ever been.
In October 2020 I moved out from my parents house again, and when I'm alone, I don't really buy processed sugars (apart from dark chocolate). I just have a lot of fruit lying around (especially sugar) so I would eat those if I wanted something sweet. One time I bought one square of Pastry on accident but it was so sweet that I took me one whole week to finish it. Sometimes I would over indulge in chocolate, but after that, I wouldn't buy it for the next week and so on. To fight that I now buy higher percentage dark chocolate and it's waaaay easier to just take whatever amount I want and stop there. I also baked a butter free chocolate cake once, and shared with the people I was living with. When a friend came to visit, we bought Ice cream, I enjoyed it, maybe overindulged, but did not crave it again afterwards. Right now I'm in quarantine and can't choose the food that I'm eating, and I do get some sweet snacks along with meals. I keep them all in a drawer and actually have no desire to eat them all at once, which would have been unfanthomable one year ago.
My point is : I wanted to make this post to not leave the impression that "oh I quit sugar for 6 days and now everything is easy peasy !" (As that was indeed kind of my mindset in the last one haha).
Yes I did "fall off track". But like imagine if it was brushing your teeth like, just because you don't brush your teeth one day, you're not gonna be like "whelp I didn't brush my teeth one day, might as well never brush my teeth again". Sounds stupid right ?
When something is a habit you can diverge from that habit, and pick it right up the next day. It does take time though, and nothing can guarantee that I won't stray away again, but I'm feeling pretty confident rn. Also please ! If you're someone who read my previous post, did try cutting it out, and then somehow went back to it again, don't beat yourself up too much. As you can see, it's not that simple. If you didn't already have a good relationship with food, you're going to have ups and downs. What matters is that you keep. Trying. I hope we all get there :)
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