Today I’m celebrating the third anniversary of my 29th birthday. Happy Birthday to me! Today I’m eating my cake, this morning I ate my cake, and tonight I’m eating my cake, and Saturday I’m eating my cake again. Why? Because I can. This is my eighth bariatric birthday, I’ve earned it. But the real reason [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sugar’
23 Sep
A Cookie is a Sometimes Food
“Now what starts with the letter C? Cookie starts with C.” Oh how I remember those joyful lyrics emitted from the crumb encrusted lips of my favorite blue-furred, googly-eyed Muppet, the famous Cookie Monster. His endless refrain of “Me want cookie!”, “Me eat cookie!” still rings in my ears all these many years later. Oh [...]
22 Sep
Alcohol + Sugar = New No No
I’ve always been sensitive to sugar since my Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery; a condition not uncommon among patients with this type of procedure. In fact, I consider it a gift; it’s what keeps me from sucking down milkshakes, soda and other sugar laden substances that are high in calories but low in bulk. This sensitivity [...]
