How sugar makes me feel now. . .

[WebMistress]

So, since I have cut out sugar almost completely, I wanted to let you all know that today was my bosses birthday, and my friend Maureen made him a cake. It wasn't just any ordinary cake. It's one of my most favorite cakes. It's called a Black Russian cake, and it is a Bundt cake with Vodka and Kahlua. I had to have a piece. I told myself, after 2 months of avoiding sugar very strictly in all foods, that having 1 cheat day to enjoy one small slice of this cake wouldn't kill me.

It was like heaven!

But, I want you all to know, that I am at work, and that I feel higher than a kite. I swear to all of you that after not having sugar like this in so long that this is like being on drugs. I am at work, my head is all kinds of "woah" and I feel like I just smoked a bunch of grass. This is crazy!

So, sugar is definitely mind-altering. I think we just eat so much of it in our lives we have become unaware of it's affects.... it's really made me feel like I ought to go home, but I'm even a bit afraid to drive... since I feel so day-dreamy and high.

Yeah, seriously.... I am in sugar la la land.

I wonder how long until it goes away....? Anyone know?

No more sugar for me, yikes!

I'm going to work out.

[Hidden]

Hi WM, are you sure it wasn't the Vodka and Kahlua that made you feel doolally...LOL 🙃

[Matt2584 in reply to Hidden]

I expect the vodka and kahlua didn’t exactly help with the feelings of doolally-ness but according to some sources sugar has been compared to an addictive drug like cocaine.

I eat far less sugar than I used, not as strict as WebMistress , so in some ways I can understand where she is coming from with the druggyness.

Once I started out giving up sugar I started eating more dates and I would say things like “I would rather eat a bag of dates rather than a bag of Galaxy Minstrels”.

If I ever put anything sugary in my mouth, I could feel the nerves in my gums retract.

[WebMistress IF Star in reply to Matt2584]

I love dates, but I haven't been eating anything sugary at all, so not even dates, at least not until I get my A1C levels down and I lose all my weight, I just don't want any. Plus, ever since I had that piece of cake yesterday I feel like I'm starving constantly now, and I know it's my body going "gimmie more gimmie more!" just like some kind of withdrawl. It's been hard on me today to fast, but I am fasting, because I am trying to get that out of my body, I don't want to deal with cravings and hunger and all that stuff that so immediately seems to return when I have carbs or sugars.

[Matt2584 in reply to WebMistress]

I can picture your stomach as Scrappy-doo “Let me at ‘em, let me at ‘em”

[WebMistress IF Star in reply to Hidden]

Ha ha! I think that's funny. I am pretty sure when Maureen baked it, most of the alcohol was cooked out of it. But, what do I know? Ha ha! You could be right! Although, I only ate one tiny slice, I doubt it would have made me loopy.

[Hidden]

I’ve experienced that too. It happened 3 years ago when I stopped eating sugar for 6 months & then ‘treated’ myself to cake & then felt SO unwell. And now more recently, again an ice cream treat with my family & I wasn’t sure I was safe to drive home I felt so woozy...

[WebMistress IF Star in reply to Hidden]

Woozy is definitely the word that I would use to describe how I felt. It was just like someone injected me with some kind of drug. Funny how when you eat sugar daily or lots of carbs daily you don't feel like that but when you cut those things out, the feelings after eating carbs and sugars are really like intoxication. Seriously weird and scary if you think about it.

[Hidden in reply to WebMistress]

I hear you sister!

[Zest]

Hi WebMistress

That cake sounds interesting - I imagine the Kahlua gives a really interesting taste. Hope you're feeling a bit better now.

Zest

[WebMistress IF Star in reply to Zest]

I'm fasting today, and feel great, just keep getting weird cravings for carbs and sugars and things like that, which I am guessing is just my body going through the normal cravings once it has an injection of "sugar" it goes straight into it - withdrawal - yikes. I swear we need a Sugarholics anonymous.