What About Sugar?

While I’m new to eating whole foods (and probably should be a bit lenient on this HUUUUUGE change), I have yet to conquer the final frontier: sugar.

I realize cane sugar is still sugar. For that matter, so is honey, which is allowed on “whole” food programs like the paleo or primal diets.

Yet I’m clinging to, “Well…it’s not high-fructose corn syrup, so it’s probably okay for now.”

The problem is, when I eat it, I get hungry.

Hungry.

Like this kind of hungry.

And frankly, I’ve been “that” kind of hungry for 45 years. Something’s causing it…that’s the question I’m trying to solve right here, right now.

But I do know that on my first few whole food days, when I didn’t have any sugar – not coconut sugar, not cane sugar, not any added sugar (except as it comes off the tree or from the ground in fruit) – I felt just “normally” hungry, not Langoliers-hungry.

It’s my kryptonite.

Sugar is my final frontier. I am trying hard to get rid now of all the cane sugar, including in ingredients. Wish me luck!

What’s your own final frontier/kryptonite? Sound off below! I’d love to hear from you.