Breaking the sugar addiction

I want to talk today about what not to eat if you want to break the sugar addiction.

I know what you are thinking, "What is that?" and "why would I even think of eating that anyway?"

Well you may not think to decorate your daughter's birthday cake with a Pokemon character. You may not have a daughter. You may not know Pokemon (that's a good thing). But you do know cake. If you are American and alive you know cake.
And cake knows you.

But if you want to break the sugar addiction, cake is not the way to do it. Let me briefly tell you why. (And I speak from personal experience having just eaten three pieces - it was my daughter's birthday after all).

When you eat cake or bread or pasta or any carbohydrate for that matter, the food breaks down into sugar in your body. When you eat a lot of it, you get a lot of sugar. That is when you are feeling happy and life is going your way. Until the sugar gets cleared, quickly, from your bloodstream and now, just a mere hour or two later, you are cranky, tired, hungry and damn, life just took a turn for the worse.

Your brain and body are crying out for more sugar because they need it: to function, to thrive. And so what do you do? Do you reach for the kale stew and baked tofu. Don't think so. "Oh look, there is still some leftover cake. Think I'll have a piece of that. Or maybe two." And the cycle starts all over again. Cake has now become the dark side. And the sugar battle wages on.