DRUMMER CAFE

blegh.

i came down with a cold/allergy/asthma/bronchial thing again, which always bums me out, coz you never know how deep into the chest it'll go.

in any event, i'm really tired of getting these things, and ready for something different. i have tried a range of holistic stuff over the years, like acupuncture and what-not, but the effects have been fleeting.

yesterday i was reading up on some traditional chinese medicine stuff, and they repeatedly point to sugar being a big culprit in most allergic and/or respiratory ailments. supposedly, sugar weakens your spleen, liver and ultimately, lungs.

i am a huuuuuge sugar fiend [7 packets in my 'joe], so i figured i should try it. gotta say, i feel a degree of relief, though i also took a ton of meds yesterday, so it's hard to say what really worked. but i am making a real effort to detox on the sweets and white flour front, in hopes it'll afford me some benefit. it's really hard, though, man. i live across the street from a little bread shoppe, and can easily wuff down an entire cinnamon raisin loaf in one sitting. bad, bad, bad!

we'll see how long it lasts...sugar is not something i'm really ready to part ways with, but i also have to think long term, coz for the past 35 years, i've been put on stronger meds at higher dosages. i just don't want to live my life like that.

have any of you successfully curtailed your sugar intake? do you miss it?

Unfortunately, I do like my sweets.  Sitting at a computer all day doesn't help, either.  We have a convenience store right next to our office, and I slip over there way too often (at least once a day... sometimes two) to get something sweet.  My downfall is chocolate, but I will go for a sweetroll or cookies just as easily.  On the bright side, I just got a full blood work-up, and the results look good.  total cholesterol numbers were a bit high, but overall I'm in good shape. I try to stay active, so I'm not just a big blob.  I know that I would be SO much healthier if I cut sugar and processed flour out of my diet, but they make it far too easy.  At home we use artificial sweetners, but who knows what those things are doing to us, long term

I am a chocoholic, big time! I recently have gotten tired of being 10# larger than I was 10 yrs ago, and finally have gotten motivated to get rid of it, with GREAT success! I'm now down 9# from about 3 mos ago, just by cutting out most of the sweets and getting my activity level up. It's staying off and it hasn't been hard. Notice that I said most sweets--I still indulge, but not as often (ie, 1-2 times a day instead of 4-5--but not this "1 time a week you can have a bite of chocolate" nonsense), and not as big of a piece. And the best part is, I really don't miss it, and I don't crave it like I used to!
 So yes, I think you can beat it. I feel better, and am motivated by how much better I look, since the weight's come off everywhere, and not just in my butt.
 Stock up on fruits that you like, and eat less--get the smaller cinnamon roll instead of the big one, or eat half and put the other half in the freezer where you're less likely to see it and eat it. Eat enough protein, cause this keeps you fuller longer. And don't eat when you're not hungry--I've found as I pay attention to this, I'm really eating much less.

robyn

Good luck.
 You're better off drinking regular soda than diet soda--nasty stuff. Try drinking water instead, and stop going to 7-11! Take a jug of water w/ you, and you'll save 79 cents every day. That's over $288 per year. You can buy yourself a pretty nice cymbal for that!

robyn (aka "mom")

sugar isn't the really bad part, it's more the caffeine. It's mostly the thing that wreaks havoc. And while I am a sugar demon I don't get hyper like everyone else, rather, I slow down like I was on Depressents or something. But I am VERY active and I have a freakishly high metabolism which means it's never in my system for more then an hour or so.
Then again, that metabolism is also why I'm so skinny...In one end out the other....

Americans have a love! affair with sugar and im right there. Im hypoglycemic also and sugar is something to stay away from but its like going off heroin to me. This thread is going to inspire me to cut the sugar again. Read Adelle Davis's book sugar blues, it will show you the bad side of eating sweets and the list is endless. This little group therepy is good for me, its comforting in a way to know that im not alone.

mmm, yummie ...    sounds good ...

I like to blend tomato juice, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, and a dash of cayanne pepper    that will curl your socks!

The most success I had with this was also the absolute roughest way to go about it.

Backstory: A year and a half ago I was in a really, really high-stress startup. As in, I think the bomb squad would probably have been more relaxing. The work wasn't important in the cosmic sense, but I had a real perfectionist/slave-driver boss.

This was also in a pretty tumultuous period in my personal life. So not surprisingly, my blood pressure skyrocketed. Add to that LONG days chained to a desk and eating crap (but free) food, it was a bad picture and I gained some weight, got a wicked caffeine and sugar addiction.

I went to my doctor in January because I was having a hell of a time shaking a cold. He put me on an insanely restrictive diet. The bottom line: Virtually no caffeine (like, one glass of tea total all day), no sugar added to anything, and mostly vegetables with a little fruit.

The first two weeks, I will not lie: It was hell and I was a complete jerk. I don't know how my wife put up with me those two weeks.
But after that, after the body kind of adapted itself to the new nutrition, my energy and overall well-being really skyrocketed.

The human body's an amazingly adaptable thing. Unfortunately it adapts equally well to bad habits as good, and our society's generally more streamlined for bad habits. But I count that little ordeal as one of the better things I've done.

OMG!!!!!!!!!

a post about sugar and i havent posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sugar is amazing!!!!!


i love sugar!

my friends give me like 3 lbs of candy before every performance cuz they know i will go crazy on my drum solo if i eat it all!!!


the only downside is that sometimes you crash later................

who cares! i <3 sugar!!!!!!

i ate 8 cookies at lunch today.

refined food/ not just sugar trick the pancreas into a false sense of well being. the pancreas is responsible for assisting in the the control of insulin, which affects glucose which makes us think.... nuerons to functon at a very basic level require a consitant glucose supply/

hey pardon the pun... but .... just a thought.....