Giving up sugar on New Year’s day was pretty ideal. The high-sugar holidays, Halloween and Christmas, were behind me and I was feeling pretty polluted. I’d forgotten that Valentine’s Day was fast approaching. The blunt force of this chocolatey lover’s holiday hit me when I entered my version of the Amish devil’s playground: Piece, Love & […]
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Two Weeks Without Sugar: One Woman’s Harrowing Ordeal
It has been a little more than two weeks without sugar and people keep asking me how I feel. The answer is … normal. I think. How do you know what normal is if you’ve never really been off the stuff? Like many Americans born in the 1960s, I was a formula-fed. If that formula […]
But I’m A Whole Foods Mommy!
Turns out that I’m more smug than a Prius driver. I assumed that my pantry wouldn’t be filled with too much crap because, hey, I shop at Whole Foods! I’m a kombucha drinker! I meditate! You know exactly where this is going. The bigger they are, the harder they fall and I’m bleeding from the […]
Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?
Answer: Yes, and potentially droolingly incompetent. Let me explain by also explaining why I’m trying to go without refined sugar for an entire year. I’m not going sugar-free because I’m fat. Well, I’m sort of fat for Boulder. Boulder is home to low-BMI uber-athletes and juice-fasters of every stripe who look like this: Whereas I’m […]
Why Winnie the Pooh Can’t Wear Pants
No. He’s not a pervert. I’ll give you a hint: His sticky paws are on the smoking gun. Yeah, you got it. Honey. He’s addicted to it. Honey is high in fructose, which Pooh’s poor over-burdened liver is taking out of his blood and storing as fat. Not just any fat, though. Pooh’s big belly […]