I Was a Sugar Addict – Now Happy to say I am a Recovered Addict

I was a sugar and a chocolate addict! I am now happy to say I am a recovered addict.

How Did I Become a Sugar Addict?

Becoming an addict began in my mother’s womb. Sugar and chocolate were already my mother’s addictions.  At a date with my father, she invited him for hot chocolate filled with sugar. He was not impressed!  My father was an alcoholic!  It truly was good luck that I did not become an alcoholic. (but that is another story).

There is no blame towards my mother at all. She was innocent in her love of sugar and chocolate and gave it to me every chance she could.  There wasn’t the same level of nutritional awareness at that time as there is now.

Sugar As A Cure For Dietary Deficiencies!?

Mom used sugar and chocolate to get me to consume foods she was told were good for me.  One of those foods was milk. As a little girl, I did not like it, so she bought me chocolate milk filled with sugar. This reinforced my growing sugar addiction.

Another ‘good’  food I didn’t like was eggs. To solve this problem she made me a sweet egg nog. This had both milk and eggs AND sugar.

Yuk! I remember not liking it at all.  Now I feel nauseous just thinking of it.

Mom did not know that milk and eggs do not agree with everyone.  They certainly did not agree with me!   Right after that first and only egg nog I got very sick with a cold and was in bed for a week coughing up mucous.  No one realized the link and only much later in my life did I realize that my body did not do well with dairy and eggs.

Sugar and Junk Food for Fun

My mom was a fun lover.  Once a month she would organize a fun supper.

Here is what my sister April says:

“My mother would sometimes give us money to go to the nearby store to buy supper. We were of course overjoyed as this meant that we would be able to choose anything we wanted to eat.  These suppers usually consisted of a pop, a chocolate bar, and either a bag of chips or a Fudgesicle.  We loved those junk food dinners then, however, in retrospect, they certainly were not the healthiest of dinners.”

Lots of sugar to feed the growing addict in me!  The bonus for me was that as the eldest, there were no dishes to do.

Sick As a Child

My childhood was full of flues and colds – caused by three factors.

1. Sugar weakened my immune system.
2. Dairy products clogged my respiratory system.
3.  My tonsils being removed.  Doctors did that for children with recurrent sore throats back in the 50’s.  Now health experts know that is detrimental to the immune system.  It is not surprising that a few years after having my tonsils out, I was in the hospital

How I Became a Sugar Addict 

I did not realize I was a sugar addict and how much this habit was ruining my health.  All through my teens and beyond, I was sick with colds and flues and eventually Fibromyalgia and Severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

I was a ‘health nut’ eating lots of whole grains, nuts,  herbs, fresh vegetables, and fruit,  but I continued to eat chocolate bars, cookies, and cakes. That kept me being a sugar addict.

I justified it by eating sweets made with ‘healthy’ ingredients like whole grains, sucanat, honey, maple syrup, etc.  I still had my addictions to Coffee Crisp chocolate bars or maple cookies from the supermarket. It was easy to eat a whole package in the afternoon while sitting at my desk.

When walking by a bakery I would stop and passionately look at all those sweets, wondering which one would be the tastiest.  I knew that eating sugar was not good for me; on good days I would just look and get filled by them visually.  I tried ever so hard not to give in to eating anything with sugar but it would only last a short time then I would binge.

How I Gained Control Over Being a Sugar Addict

There was no quick fix in an addiction center for this one.  It took years for my addictions to end.
It was all about becoming aware and taking steps towards my addictions.

1. First I had to take practical steps to limit my exposure to sugar and chocolate.  You can read these 7 steps here: 7 Tips

2.  I become fully aware!

Even though I knew intellectually that sugar was not good for me, it was not till the last three years that I could watch it play out in my body.   I would feel tired for five days after eating a single health food store brownie made with brown sugar.

That in itself was motivation to totally stop eating anything ever with sugar in it!  Once I did that, after a few months I noticed that I was no longer addicted to sugar or chocolate made with sugar.

This is such good news for me! Now when I see bakeries there is simply no interest at all in what they are offering; in fact, it has no yummy factor for me at all.  Even the health food store bakery has no pull in me to buy their treats because I know that they use brown sugar.

If I can do it so can you. Join me and be a success and no longer be controlled by a sugar addiction. I was a sugar addict, note the word WAS.

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