Sunday, October 26, 2008

Discovering the world

without sugar is very interesting. As I'm adjusting to my diagnosis as a diabetic type 2, I have all these conversations going on in my head about SUGAR. We celebrate with sugar, we reward with sugar, we rot our teeth with sugar, we entertain with sugar, we get fat eating sugar, we drink sugar in our pop...the world revolves around sugar. At least you are so much more aware of it when you are limited in eating sugar. 

















Take IHOP-International House of Pancakes where we went for a family birthday breakfast. (See family photo above.) Try having a pancake without maple syrup. Well I was very good at IHOP, I had hash browns, fried eggs, bacon and toast with just butter. No hot chocolate for me, I drank cold milk.

I am exploring the world of fake sugar...splenda, here I come. There's always diet drinks and pepsi one so instead of sugar you can have chemicals...water here I come, but then they say our water is filled with drugs from people dumping their extra prescription pills down the toilet. It's quite the world we live in and food that we choose to buy, cook or eat out is a daily struggle or challenge. Oh yes, I'm joining weight watchers to encourage me to eat less. Wish me luck! Check out a new blog buddy Sylvia over the hill. Love that name!