I love to live in constant learning, but being wise has its consequences, strangely consequences in favor of my body and soul, and an example of this is sugar. I am a lover of desserts and a very sweet latte, it has always been my weakness, but I already have all the necessary information to know that sugar is my main enemy, now it is up to me to maintain my discipline or follow my accelerated path to death.
It is strange, because I do not have any disease that prevents me from consuming sugar, but I am at an age where I have made the decision to take care of myself to reverse the effects that a sedentary lifestyle and poor diet have left on me. I may not be able to erase everything, but I will try, first for myself, and then for my family who needs me alive and healthy. This is not an easy road, sugar is an addiction, and in fact I remember that it was in June last year when I started this process, imagine, almost a year ago, and I had several setbacks and relapses in 2024, but since January everything has changed for the better.
I've always been a little fat, but never as fat as I am now. These pictures are from mid 2023, just after my dad died. For some reason I insisted on eating out at pastry shops and drinking very sweet coffees with my girl and my friends. Evidently the mourning accelerated the process of bad habits and my wife supported me because she saw my sadness (and possibly because she loves eating sweets as much as she loves me) 😅 I can say that at the moment this has only affected my weight, but it could have been worse, I may have gotten sick because of sugar consumption, and if I learned something with my dad's events is that health is a great treasure, and you have to take care of it with dedication.
For a few months now I have been practicing discipline in several aspects of my life, and one of them has been regarding sugar consumption. I am not going to lie to you, yes I have continued consuming it, but I have lowered about 80% of my sugar consumption, maybe even more. I think my main challenge is my own wife, for example on Monday I told her that I didn't want any candy sold by my colleagues in the coral, not to buy me anything, that I wasn't going to do it either, and in fact it was a good week, and just yesterday when I read the topics you propose Galenkp my wife arrived in the afternoon with some sweet breads and coffee (without sugar), and I accepted it because I was hungry, but I was weak, I had no trouble telling her no and stay sober 🤣
Could I give up sugar for good?... Well, if I set it as a goal I know I could give up sugar for good, however I am not looking for it, since I don't have a disease that prevents me from doing so and I am not looking for a visual goal in my body. I have the ability to give up sugar, as well as many other things I have erased from my life, but at the moment I prefer sugar to be an eventual thing. If I arrive at a friend's house and they offer me a coffee that already has sugar in it I have no problem drinking it, but if they ask me if I want sugar I'll say no.
Currently my average sugar free day is about two weeks, but it is not something planned. Last Saturday I had rehearsal in the morning and concert in the afternoon/evening, so my music institution provided lunch and snack and we got a sweet juice, before that I had two weeks without consuming sugar and I didn't sin until yesterday when my wife gave me bread. I know it still seems like a lot, but a year ago when I just started thinking about sugar consumption in my life I practically ate breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner with high doses of sugar, it was so much that even I realized it was killing me.
It has been hard for me to get unaccustomed to sugar, but I'm getting there. I've grown a little fond of sugar-free coffee and that's saying a lot because I hated it, but it's helped me to combat my sedentary lifestyle as well. Every day I watch something on TV and work at Hive, but now I'm hiking, I'm learning another language and I'm very inspired by my opera singing lessons. All these activities that I had stopped doing with the death of my dad are keeping me healthily busy, unlike the late afternoons and evenings of TV and many hours at Hive with my constant cups of sweet coffee last year.
Spending my time in the company of people with good habits has also helped me, and that was not planned. A few weeks ago I told you in this same community about my best friends, The Victims, one of them will participate in two weeks in a bodybuilding contest and every day he is stricter with his discipline, and the other one is so busy in his life as a dad that he has no time to exercise, but he has given up flours and has lowered his sugar intake as much as I have, I think also that juice they gave us on Saturday was his last time, and even so, we both had the option of not drinking that juice (like the bodybuilder did), so it all depends on ourselves and our main goals, but leaning on wise people like ourselves is a great help.
I hope to improve on this road to quit sugar, and possibly as I continue to build a discipline I can quit sugar completely, in fact I would like to inspire my own wife to quit; she does worry me more about sugar, but life has taught me that everyone has their own time and personal process, so I will have to inspire her through my example Actions are worth a thousand words... Yes it is bad to be wise, the more I learn the more I detach myself from things I love, but there are loves that kill, and the consumption of sugar is a great example of that.
