I’ve got a sugar hangover…
I know what you’re thinking, this is a natural-ish blog, why is she talking about eating junk food? Uh, because I love junk food? :)
As a major sugar addict who’s trying her hardest not to raise kids who follow in her footsteps, I can honestly tell you that I secretly look forward to Halloween and Easter when we have an excuse to keep a ton of candy in the house…for the kids sake of course!
For Easter, we don’t go totally overboard, but we do put some candy in their baskets and in the eggs that we hide. The problem, grandparents also buy our kids candy AND it’s my daughter’s birthday so we do cake and more junk food for that. I anticipate the sugar for about a week prior. I want to resist but deep down I totally don’t plan to. I mean, can anyone actually resist Cadbury Mini Eggs?
I got up Easter morning hopeful that I’d be able to be strong. I ran on the treadmill and was off to a great start. But then I began to feel entitled and deserving of the candy, like I’d earned it.
Way too much chocolate and some birthday cake later I felt gross and disappointed in myself. I even went to bed early. Tomorrow is a new day I thought.
Chocolate for breakfast?
Today I got up still feeling kind of gross, like a candy hangover, and I reflected on my lesson while I drank my coffee. Then I looked down and realized there was a pile of Hershey’s Kisses wrappers from a pile of chocolate I had just eaten! I am THAT bad. It’s sort how you look at someone who drank too much alcohol, they wake up sick and fix it by drinking more? I’ve never understood it but it’s precisely how I act when I overdose on junk.
Easter is over and done now and soon the candy will be gone, thanks to me, so I have time to recover from my sugar high. Thank goodness Halloween and Easter are six months apart!
Am I the only one? Do any of you overindulge in sugar because you’ve just GOT to have Cadburry Mini Eggs? I mean it just wouldn’t be Easter without it, am I right?
I’m Julie, a former cloth diaper retailer who discovered a passion for the industry. Now, instead of selling cloth diapers, I advocate them and promote small businesses I love who sell and manufacture them.
I’m the wife of a fireman and mother of three. I have a daughter and identical twin sons.
