You get excitable after doing it, then you crash.

You always regret it.

Sometimes it infuences bad decisions, and affects friendships. Worst of all it’s terrible for your health, especially your teeth.

It’s everywhere.

No matter what town you live in, it’s a problem.

There’s even been songs written about it.

It’s..sugar.

Don’t read this and get the wrong impression thinking that the habit has been completely kicked.

I’m still in recovery, having only reduced it in the last month or so by quite a bit, with a goal of staying under 10 grams of processed sugar per day. It’s been easier than expected, and the only time it’s gone over 10 grams (give or take 5 likely) was around Christmas time, but not by much. I don’t plan on cutting it out completely.

Though it doesn’t happen immediately, once you reduce your sugar intake it, you’ll be surprised how much you don’t miss it:

The goal in the past two years or so has been to keep the daily processed sugar intake under 25 grams, which has improved from the goal of staying under 45 grams per day a few years before that. Before these sugar goals were set, in all the years previous no goals existed at all for sugar reduction.

That’s of course not counting sugar from fruit consumption, which is still limited to a few servings a day, going veggie heavy instead (which also usually has sugar to varying degrees, but less so than fruit. The fiber in both fruit and vegetables though greatly slows down the absorption process

I’m not going to say it’s completely changed the life for the better; that I can levitate now, or that I don’t still crave it at certain times, but the cravings are much less, and there are some very noticeable, very positive differences as a result of greatly reducing the white stuff.

The first very noticeable thing noted was that that a few of the teeth, which were starting to bother, have been completely pain free in the past month or so, which has been an extremely happy bonus.

Now, though you may have looked at the title of this post, and gotten a different impression than it was actually about, possibly feeling swindled. I can totally relate, as that’s exactly how I felt when I started reading nutrition labels and realizing how much sugar was in just about every boxed and processed food at the grocer.

There’s more to it than that.

Would you believe that rats, when hooked on sugar and cocaine, the large majority of time chose sugar over cocaine when given the choice.

It has even been speculated lately that “Alzheimer’s disease could be a third form of diabetes.”

On the levitation mention; though levitation hasn’t occured (yet) the feet are feeling noticeable lighter in the waking world.

When fortunate enough to achieve flight in a dream, the wings don’t have to be flapped about so much.

Instead of flopping around a few feet above the ground in an attempt to achieve fight (and not gaining much height,) sometimes it feels like if the wings are just spread, the wind picks me right up, and the only energy needing to be spent is riding the changing currents.

Try giving sugar a case of the “Bye bye’s” for a week and see how much better you feel!