Live with Shauna Rae - Day 22 of 100 Days

Uh, I've been thinking a lot about something that the...

I got a, a tarot reading on Sunday, and the person doing the reading brought up something about vices.

So, you know, things that are, that are not necessarily good for you, difficult to kick the habit, whatever it is.

Um, I've given up smoking a long time ago.

I want, uh, to give up sugar, and I've also, I, I-- It'll, it'll soon be a year since I gave up alcohol, so I'm looking forward to celebrating that.

But the sugar piece is what I think I've replaced it with, so that has to go.

I want to be really careful too because in the past I've used exercise as a replacement, getting kind of addicted to exercise instead of socializing with people, basically spending every single day at the gym pushing myself until I really hurt.

I don't want to do that either.

I mean, there's positives.

No, you know, there's no positive to an obsession with anything.

But the sugar piece is, it's difficult because both my partner and I have a sweet tooth.

So when we see things at the grocery store when we're shopping together...

Yeah, and it's very difficult for me to be in the house with things that are sweet without eating them.

I try to hide them.

I try to put them away.

It is a vice that I am looking to-- for, for help with.

Um, previously, and it used to be called the Atkins diet, um, mm, it, in later, in, in more modern years, I guess, it was keto.

I think if you can give up sugar and focus on protein more, the cravings go away.

They eventually, if you can kick it for a week, eventually they go away, where you feel so much better.

Your, um, insulin doesn't spike.

Luckily, fortunately, so far, and when I want-- knock on some wood, I, I'm not pre-diabetic.

I've been very, very lucky that way so far.

But my husband is.

He's on medication for it, and still he loves the sugar.

So it's a, it's a, it's a real thing for us.