bluegreen17 | sugar and ice

my sugar addiction is getting really really bad. someone on my friends list (forgive me for not remembering who!) had mentioned having great success with julia ross's the mood cure so i took a peek at that book yesterday. part of the program includes taking amino acids,and i was thinking,if i wanted to try this,where would i find the money to buy supplements? which just makes me more depressed. and when i'm depressed,i eat more sugar.and i gain weight and feel more depressed because my clothes aren't comfortable and i have no money to buy more. i just spent $450 on an exhaust system for my car and i had no idea that some people's monthly car payments are sometimes that much. (my car is used and was paid for in cash because i can't afford payments,so i have to save up ahead of time.) so that's depressing too.i wonder if it will ever end. i've been very grouchy,angry and depressed the past couple of days,and i think my pms hells may be returning in addition to the fairly chronic depression i have.

oh,well. for something a little cheerier,here's a little reminiscence i wrote a while back...

(written 12-29-02)

ahahahahaha

'jessie's girl' by rick springfield! i'm listening to an eighties radio show. and this just reminds me of one of my best-ever roommates and how it was so cold where we were living that i wore a hat and mittens to bed! it was so cold if i had thrown water on the floor we could have had a hockey game! i used to put the electric oven on,and sit in front of it with the door open. not exactly energy-efficient. the landlord soon properly 'winterized' the place. yes,i had that rick springfield album but that's the only song i listened to. i used to be a music slut in the sense that in the 80's i had a lot of disposable income (oh how i miss having so much disposable income...my yearly income for 1990 was higher than my income is now,and the rent was cheaper!i just love downward mobility. : (

well,i AM thrilled because even though i can't buy much music these days (and i've just renewed my passion for music lately...it tends to ebb and flow...which hasn't happened since,oh,mid 2001,so a long drought) i've got a brand new somewhat cheapo sony portable cd player/double cassette deck/radio that i got for free...didn't even pay the shipping...which i got with points on my sony visa card. i pay my webtv on that plus i've put my car repairs on there so i racked up the points in the last few years.

i haven't had a radio with reception for AGES,because i never got around to hooking up an antenna to my reciever. plus,one of the cassette decks died so i couldn't tape stuff from my vast collection of tapes and make new tapes from tape collections. the only weird drawback is that you're not supposed to use anything but normal type 1 tapes on this sony and i've got stuff...probably quite a bit...on high bias type 2 tapes. oh,well. i'll have to look around for some other solution.though this new thing doesn't even have one port to patch in another tape deck. oh,well. it DOES have two medium sized speakers that are detachable and that's good because my big old speakers are dying,i think. the bass sound is really getting distorted and too bassy for some reason. i've fiddled around with the equalizers on the receiver and i don't think that's the problem. anyhoo...

i'm also on an insane sugar eating frenzy and it can't be time for pms again unless it's going to last for two weeks. yes,i'm sure you wanted to know the details of my cycle. i'm guessing that it's the bad habits i've picked up during this holiday season where food chases you down and tackles you,what are you gonna do? resist? i think not. though i do sometimes,ha,because i could eat a lot more if i let myself. i guess i will have to pay more attention to what sugary stuff i have in the house and discipline myself as best as i can concerning my consumption.

and i'm having lunch with dad tomorrow and he said he had a box of chocolates for me,which he gave to each of us kids for christmas,but i didn't make it to the party. ahahahaha...

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Amino supplements upset my stomach. Only thing I've kept with use of is opening ginger capsules and putting that in some things I drink, very helpful for everything, and two kids chewables every day. Ginger is an all around tonic. anyhow.

I just cut sugar completely...it's the only way to overcome the addiction. You need to be careful...you can tip your body's blood sugar level over the edge. There is an epidemic of people in the U.S. with developed diabetes. It's not a laughing matter. I went on the Atkins diet to lose weight, but the added benefit from stopping sugar and carb intake was that once you get over the addiction, you feel great!!! It only takes 48 hours for your body to burn it's store of glucose, if you stop feeding your body sugar. That gives your body a break and lets it recover. Sugar means all fruits , too and all forms of sugars added to sauces and dressings and drinks.try Splenda, it's the best sugar substitute made from sugar. Drink Chrystal Light lemonade. I encourage you to help yourself get off the rollercoaster. There are journals that support it, too.

Actually splenda has an ingredient in it that has recieved the *MOST* complaints from any food additive the FDA has ever recieved. It also actually makes you crave carbs which makes you fat and makes your blood sugar go up and down. No sugar supstitutes for me. That stuff allways makes me get a headache and feel weird so I didn't like it even before I read this stuff about it.

Hi! Could you please let me know where you got your information on Splenda? It is the opposite of the research and experience I have heard about. I would like to check it out. I'm sorry nothing I said helped.

Oops you may be right. I think I was thinking of aspartame and lumping all artificial sweetners together. Yet, I have come up with some scary news about splenda as well. Basically I have a bad gut feeling about this substance because it is too much of an artificial substance for me to trust taking all the time. Besides I've found the method that works for me for quiting sugar. Thanks for giving me the feedback. Now I know a little bit more than I did before.

http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/

thanks for the info. i've tried to cut out sugar but haven't had much luck. also,i'd hate to cut out my daily apple,banana,and figs because they give me fiber,vit.c and minerals. at least sugar doesn't impair my driving,but i still think it's out of control,which is why it concerns me.

there are two things in my life that have remained the same eating high protein or lower protein/hardly any meat,and that is depression and sugar cravings. the advantage to me of less protein is that my energy level is a lot higher,and i weigh less. so i need to find something that will work for me.

thanks again!

Personally, my goal is allow myself one sweet and one salty (my main food addiciton) treat a day. If I don't do that, I get craving like crazy and can't make myself stop. But having the one treat a day usually works. Except during my period, when I tend to binge a little bit anyway. heh

Yea that is me that advocates for the Julia Ross diet. I'm still doing it I'm still loosing weight and feeling better than I ever have. I swear it's better for me than anything I've ever tried. That's saying a lot. I used to experiment in my younger days. I wrote a bad check to do it for the first month and then as soon as I got the stuff in my system my brain just woke up and operated and I could amazingly just conjure up new incredible ways to come up with the money for more. I didn't do anything illegal. I started to get people to sign political petitions for cash. Look on craigslist.com or org I forget

thanks for the feedback on that. did the amino acids upset your stomach?

Not at all. Hm, I'm wondering which ones did that to her and what the whole picture is about it. Maybe she has a digestive problem or maybe they just arn't right for her. By the way, rarely some people don't respond positively to them. My ex boyfriends system can't handle DLPA. He's a vegan so it might have something to do with that. Email me if you have more questions.

Now I'm researching different ways I can get into the nutritional health care field and actually make money from telling people what to eat. I do it all the time anyway. I might as well get paid for it. This coming from someone who used to drop all her classes from her add that actually derives from her allergies. I've given up now not just my food addictions but also now I'm starting to loose a lot of my behavior and old ways of thinking addictions as well.

i would like to add that i am currently addicted to chinese food. not a good thing. i think my heart is going to blow any day now!
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