One aspect of PCOS (the thing I described yesterday that now I've got) apparently has something to do with insulin resistance.
That fact, and the fact that when I got home this summer, I started eating sugar in large, large amounts (including drinking more soda than I have in two years) because Mom makes cake, brownies, truffles, and God knows what else all the time, and a couple of months of this simple sugar binge proceeded to throw everything off.
When I was at school, I ate very little sugar compared to what I snack on here. The temptation is much, much worse-at school I could just walk away, but here it's right in front of my nose and it's difficult to avoid.
This is what I believe-if I go off sugar for a month, it might put everything back on track.
So, I choose to do this just before the annual church picnic...where Lutherans dope up on sugar, sugar, and more sugar. They love their snackies and their sweets. I'm also going camping with the family this year. No s'mores. No fruity pie things. No chocolate.
The chocolate ban might kill me.
29 days until I hopefully see results from this test; otherwise I wind up on birth control pills. No sugar or taking pills every day? I'll take the no sugar.
Maybe.
This might be the only way to control my newest disease, and if it is, it can't hurt to stop consuming so much sugar.
By the way, I've been meaning to list these small problems of mine out again, with the new one added in...bear with me...
Fibromyalgia
A dormant arthritis
PCOS
Math/spatial disability
Hm. Less than last year. I must be improving someplace or I'm running out of illnesses to run THROUGH.
So, I'll report back how the Sweet Ban of Hell: Summer 2009 is going. Hopefully I don't crack and start stuffing cupcakes in my mug.
Ta,
Bec
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