I would have pounced on the cookies and eaten 3 or 4.
I remember, after I had been doing the program for about a year, I came home and my housemate was baking chocolate chip cookies. There was a plate piled high with them on the kitchen table. I remember enjoying the aroma, but not being tempted to eat them. I didn't find myself needing to leave the room to get away from them or anything. Before doing the program, I never would have believed that such a thing would be possible.
Actually, I never realized I had a problem with sugar because I didn't binge and I didn't have a weight problem, but I definitely liked it a lot, at least in certain forms. My major issue was depression and crazy thought patterns. Because my sugar consumption was pretty stable in terms of amounts and times, I never had a clue that the sugar and the depression were connected. I am so glad I read about Potatoes not Prozac in Christiane Northrup's newsletter and realized that it sounded like me, or I might never have figured it out.
Allison
: I'm somewhat nostalgically having a
: read through. Join me with your
: thought?
: this is page 22, chapter 2 ARE YOU
: SUGAR SENSITIVE?
:
By now, you are probably wondering
: if you too are sugar sensitive.
: And if so, how sugar sensitive are
: you ?
: there are two ways to determine this,
: both of which I use with my
: clients. Some people prefer the
: informal approach, others like
: using the checklist in this
: chapter. Lets start with an
: informal way to diagnose sugar
: sensitivity. When a client comes
: to se me about compulsive eating,
: I start by asking a simple
: question: Imagine you come home and go into the
: kitchen A plate of warm chocolate
: chip cookies just out of the oven
: sits on the counter. The smell
: hits you as you walk in. You do
: not feel hungry . No one else is
: around. What would you do ?
: I remember reading this and feeling
: astounded. I could not possibly be
: sugar sensitive. Because if that
: was me, I would ignore them
: completely, I wouldn't give in to
: the tumultuous assault on my
: senses that would be compelling me
: like a magnet 
: but I had to admit, that vision was
: replaying in my video - brain and
: I was having the most awful time
: with it. Now I wanted some. And
: what if you had replaced that with
: garlic bread ? LOL, no chance
: so I had to reluctantly accept that
: that was me really. And I was
: surrounded by people who were not
: a bit bothered. I wanted to also
: get mad at people in weight
: watchers who said it was easy. It
: wasn't easy . Hundred percent of
: my effort was going on it, I was
: exhausted and felt on a see saw.
: so it was such a relief to read this.
: It sounds odd but I don't even
: "like" sugar. But it
: does compel me. Starting the book
: with that description was
: convincing .............. I was
: left feeling it was worth reading
: on to see what else was me