Woops!

Holy moley! I've been forgetting to post! There is a really good reason too. And that reason is work! I've been incredibly busy over the past few days. Pretty much to the degree that my day pretty much consisted of me waking up, eating, going to work, coming home, eating, and then going to sleep. I've been dead to the world. But that should be done and over with for a while now and I can concentrate on this for a while.

Now at this time I am finding a few notable changes. First up is I've always had a bit of a strange complexion. Even at 25 I still break out like a 14 year old. Well that's all clearing up nicely. I can't say much for energy until I've has a day or two off simply because I've been pushing myself so hard lately that I have nothing left every day. But I haven't had that heavy lazy feeling that generally plagues me when it gets hot or when I get tired. I can generally keep going without really needing to sit there and tell myself that I need to get moving.

Over the past few days I almost broke down. I craved snack foods like you would not believe. Grocery shopping with my mom has never been so hard! She has to watch her cholesterol and all, but she likes to point out things that look like they might taste amazing. It's like some kind of test of my own will power with her. Let me tell you its been a real test lately. Normally at this point I would lose it and spring for the closest box of cookies or baked goods. Resistance has been a challenge. I'm pretty sure this is how a drug addict feels when they can't get they're fix. In fact according to a lot of the research I've been reading our brains respond to junk food much the same way they respond to a dose of any one of the more addicting drugs like heroin or cocaine. The same pleasure centers of the brain light up like Christmas. It messes with our rewards system, we get cravings, and worst is the denial! We all just clam to like food a lot. No we're a society addicted to food that's bad for us. Did you know that there are over 52 different names for sugar and probably just as many if not more for salt? Next time you pick something up that says it's sugar free look for high fructose corn syrup, glucose something or other, or any kind of artificial sweetener. It's all sugar or turns into sugar in your stomach. I really worry about our futures with such false advertising practices.

Now I just want to put something out there. I'm not trying to be preachy about this. I'm just expressing my horror when I figured out all of this was true. I looked up different names for sugar and I looked through my so called sugar free products and found sugar. I had already started losing faith in the system set up to protect us supposedly and then I found this. I was angry. I'm still angry and if I didn't only rent my place I would have dug up the whole front yard and turned it into a vegetable garden out of spite. But since then I've realized that the rad to ruin is paved with good intentions.

Anyways  I'll try to keep my updates regular again for my whole 10 readers haha.

Here's the link to psychology today on the parallels between food and drug addiction
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-healing/201209/eight-surprising-parallels-between-food-and-drug-addictions