Cutting Out the Sugar

Well, so much for chocolate syrup. I must have had 20 tablespoons of it today. And with the honey on toast and chocolate banana sundae, I just started becoming irritable and cranky again.

So I guess it's time to cut it out for a while. I had a veggie burger with ketchup for dinner followed by some nuts and seeds, and that seemed to calm me down.

As much as I like to think how wonderful raw chocolate syrup is, it's still a form of sugar, so I'll have to stay away from it for a day or so.

Two Days Off Triphala

This week has been rather less than stellar week for me. I started getting cramps and I was out of triphala. The cramps I seemed to be able to handle with raspberry juice and goji berries, and an easy-to-digest diet of juices and nuts. I even have some of my raw chocolate syrup left, although the taste gets a little boring if eaten every day. I found out that the honey I was having seemed to make me break out, so I'm not having that for a while. So between that and the chocolate and the triphala, I'm sort of running out of natural highs. I suppose drinking raspberry juice is nice enough, as is taking evening primrose oil, but it doesn't seem to be the same.

I'll see if I can find some more triphala here. Not that I'm hooked on it, but it seems to give me more vitamins in 3 pills than I can get drinking 3 glasses of fruit juice.

An hour later: Woohoo! I actually found more of this stuff. (The company that sells it is running out in Canada, so it's been rather hard to find.) I found this health food store that I've never gone to before, and they had 4 bottles left (not that I bought all 4, I just bought the one-they were $30 Canadian each.)

As soon as I took it I could feel an instant lift. And then I decided to have some toast with honey and peanut butter (I figured there was a chance the breakouts I had were due to something else and not the honey after all :) )

Life is good again :D