I tried to send this earlier

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I'm new and I'm not sure who I was posting this too, but it was someone who

talked about sugar and it was mentioned that breastmilk is sweet too. Anyway,

the reason I didn't send it right away when I was done writing it was because my

computer wouldn't let me. Now I can't find the post. Oh well here it is:

I loved your post and it made think about the sugary sweet world we've

surrounded ourselves in. I guess it's supposed to help us through the

bitterness of life? Or more likely companies have figured it out that it's our

weak spot. I have some denial using sugar to get through the bitterness of

life...but I know I do it and some people might call that emotional eating.

My friends from India eat an amazing amount of sugar and it doesn't seem to have

the same affect on their weight like it does in our culture. When they eat

meals, they eat the balance of tastes: Bitter, sour, hot, pungent, salty, savory

with a huge variety of vegetables and a variety of hi-protein legumes, flat

breads and raita or yogurt salad w/ even more veggies. Perhaps getting that

variety of foods helps to balance their sugar intake. They also talk to each

other and have fun socializing. It's a big part of their culture to relax and

have tea after a meal and chat. Unless you ask for unsweetened tea you can

expect it to be extremely sweet bursting your taste buds with cardamom and

sugar.

When it comes to sweeteners, agave syrup has become a more pratical sweetener

for me and I lovvve maple syrup, but it is expensive and not always available.

Especially in pre-sweetened foods.

Since you mentioned breast milk is a sweet thing, I thought of other natural

things that are sweet, cow's milk, although processed sugar is from a plant,

fruits, nuts even have a sweetness to them. Couldn't we then call sweet stuff a

good thing? The reasons I would put sweet stuff down or beat myself up about it

is because I've over indulged in it myself and am having some sort of negative

reaction....it could be weight gain when it's a period of time that I've been

indulging like the holidays or other times or I feel hyper or I just know my

body is reacting negatively. It's easier for me to be defensive about how bad

it is rather than be responsible for being unresponsive or downright numb about

what my intuition says to me about it. Hopefully I will listen to my intuition

and my own body wisdom when I've had too much or to refrain from eating the

sweets.

Now I'm starting to think about how will-power to not eat sweets and the

intuition could work as friends to avoid sweets. Anyone have any ideas?

Perhaps it's just that tiny taste of chocolate that satisfies (that's what I

read a movie star did) and then she moved on to some other activity training the

mind to do something else and eat to live rather than live to eat or eating

watermelon to get the sweetness and filling up at the same time....What do you

think? This is my first post and happy to be here. Wow it got long. Atma