Over43 wrote:I don't know if detox is the right word (I am personally not a big believer in "detox") but your body may just not like sugary foods anymore.
That could be part of it. I was "without" for a while and I think it rebelled.
I was at the mall yesterday and I got really humbled by a woman I saw. She HAD to be a really loose size 4 jeans (for the guys who don't know, that's an acceptable supermodel size if they have muscle). She looked lean and good. She also had three little kids with her including an infant. The two older boys looked to be about 4 and 3 years old, while the infant looked like she was about 6 months or so and not yet sitting up.
So here I am, watching this lady, thinking "wow, she has three kids and looks really good and yet she doesn't seem to have a snack on her, even with three kids". And then....I saw it. This thing clipped to her belt. "That's a weird looking phone" I thought, with a square readout screen and large up and down buttons. It had a tube sticking out of the side. Yep. It was....
an insulin pump.
So here's this lady, three small children, size 4 (maybe even smaller) with a 24/7 insulin pump! My Dad had a kidney transplant and is Type II and insulin dependent. I had always heard that insulin makes you gain weight, especially if you have to take it on a regular basis and you don't produce it. So here she was, three children (they were hers, I could tell by the way she stood with them) and bikini lean.
I have nothing to complain about.
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Even if I get a little "ill"
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on certain days, I will just live with it. I have no children. None of those body changes. I have no medical problems and I"m really healthy and NOT required to "eat" if my blood sugar gets too low. I just need to stop eating crap, start eating good stuff, and not too much of it. Treats only occasionally. I sometimes wonder if these goofy diets really gave me the ultimate goal in disguise: the ability to eat junk as long as I play around "rules". Nope. no more. I'm done. And I'm going to stop whining. IF I have a tough day again, I will deal and move on. Boy, was that woman a humbling example!