Sugar is Evil, In a Fantastic Sort of Way

Sugar is evil. In a fantastic sort of way. I could live on sugar. Not straight sugar of course, that might be over the top. Add a little butter and maybe some nuts though and I could hold up in a bomb shelter for months. You would think I’d weigh 500 lbs, but I don’t. Not yet anyway. Why is it that everything that is really yummy is bad for you? Your doctors will tell you not to eat all the yummy things and so will your scale. But, if I am having a bad day, a coke and Snickers will always make it better. There is probably some deep psychological issue there. However, finding out what it is and curing it would require hiring and listening to quite a few “don’t eat the yummy things” speeches from probably numerous psychiatrists who charge exorbitant prices per hour. I would rather spend that money on milk duds and tootsie rolls.

Last year I joined weight watchers and while I had a good experience there overall I had to change meetings a couple of times to get a good speaker. If you’ve never experienced a weight watchers meeting, the speakers rely on the members to keep the meeting going. They ask questions designed to motivate you and they expect the members to respond voluntarily. Every Tuesday at 10:00 am I would go to a meeting that was supposed to motivate me to lose the extra pounds and make healthy choices that would allow me to keep the weight off and live a longer life. Instead, I would leave the meeting armed with a list of ideas for sweets that I had never even considered. One week a woman explained how she missed melting chocolate candy bars over Oreo’s. I had never thought of doing that. Another time I learned how you can turn a simple can of condensed sweetened milk into a solid can of caramel. Which happens to be fantastic. After a few weeks I realized I was increasing the amount of weight I needed to watch.