Saturday, February 1, 2014

Why Vegan? Why Quitting Sugar?

Why am I trying out being a vegan?

I'm sick of being fat.  I'm sick of being fat.  I'm sick of being fat.  I'll be 40 in just over a year.  I've spent the first half of my life fat, do I want to continue this way?  NO NO NO NO -- No, I don't thank you very much.

Why am I trying to overcome my addiction to sugar?

I'm an abstainer, not a moderator - give me a box of cookies and those suckers are gone!.  I'm also a compulsive overeater.  If I tried to have just one of the cookies -- well it doesn't work.  Why?  Because I become obsessive.  I'll walk away...for a while, but I will likely return...and then return again and again until they are all gone.  And let's not talk about the time I spend thinking about the cookie and trying not to go get them.  I have more important things to do.

So what?

So, this means for me to eat healthily it would be best to completely eliminate certain foods from my diet.  I was vegetarian once before and was surprised at how easy it was.  I remember eating out and looking at the menu -- anything with meat was "NOT AN OPTION" -- I'm just going back to that and expanding my No Options component.

With sugar I've noticed that when I eat something delicious and sweet and wonderful I feel like shit for a while afterward.  Why would I knowingly feel like shit when to avoid that feeling all I have to do is avoid this crappy food anyway?

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