Sugar

I'm not a sugar-free fan. I need my treats. But the other day I emptied out my system (some sort of flu) and then didn't eat much the whole day long -- but tried to drink plenty and ate a healthy salmon dinner by evening. By the end of that ordeal I felt so empty and clean and flushed, that I wanted to only put healthy things inside of me -- so I did well with my eating all day long. I wasn't even tempted to have a treat. After dinner, since I chose my foods so wisely, I still had a good 13 WW points left so I decided that called for a skookie!

oh how happy that made me, until about 10 minutes after -- the sugar headache. This doesn't always happen to me, but often enough that I really ought to learn from it by now. I took pain reliever before I went to bed, had a neck and head massage and still suffered through most of the night before I deliriously got up to get some second chance medicine around 5 am. It's interesting how lots of people (including me) will gladly ingest something that makes them feel better, but it's much harder to abstain from something of which the abstinence from, makes them feel better. I'm not promising from now on I will ban sugary treats from my life, but it's definitely skookies for thought.