A Month Without Sugar
Around the age of 13, the lazy side of me figured out that in life you can actually gain something by not doing something else. This was the day when I decided I wouldn&#x27;t touch the alcohol or cigarettes (not to mention soft and hard drugs). Ever. I&#x27;ve tried alcohol since then maybe two times actually and I&#x27;ve never been drunk, never tried to smoke, I don&#x27;t even drink coffee (just don&#x27;t like the taste of it).<p>Anyway, it took me 27 years to realise I&#x27;ve been addicted to sugar the whole time. I dropped refined sugar from my diet last February, I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m quite strict here as I&#x27;ve ate sugar only two times in these 11 months (one traditional Christmas Eve dish and one for Easter). Maybe a few times more when I wasn&#x27;t sure what I was eating (eating out).<p>My sugar problems became really obvious when I was super strict about my oral hygiene yet I was spending thousands of dollars yearly on dentists. I was getting a few cavities filled yearly for the last 10 years or so. It seemed normal to me but the red flag was a cavity between my incisors, it was tiny, I couldn&#x27;t even see it but every time I ate something with refined sugar I felt this particular type of pain you got when you have a cavity in your teeth. I could barely feel it with any other food, but sugars - hell yea, it was just simply painful. And then I got scared and thinking &quot;damn, I&#x27;m 27 and I&#x27;ve already had root canal treatment once - and now this?&quot;. I&#x27;ve been reading a lot about people who have super healthy teeth because they don&#x27;t eat that much sugar (or no refined sugars at all) and somehow without sugar tooth decay is processing very slowly if at all.<p>During the last 11 months I&#x27;ve seen my dentist twice and looks like if I will keep sugar out of my diet I&#x27;d just have to replace my fillings every few years or so. No new cavities, no signs of teeth decay, I feel like a new man.<p>What&#x27;s even better I&#x27;m reading ALL the product labels before I eat anything now and I&#x27;m generally MUCH better because I&#x27;ve dropped refined&#x2F;palm oils too. I&#x27;m living in Poland and our food is dirt cheap and of superb quality, anyway it really opened my eyes in many cases, when I was for example looking for sausages and about 50% had sugar in them, when and why the heck we decided to put sugar in our meat?! :( Same goes for bread and so much processed food you&#x27;d be surprised.<p>(if you&#x27;re planning of dropping sugar it won&#x27;t be easy - the first 3 weeks were nightmare for me, but I got by eating sweets sweetened with sorbitol, aspartam etc. - after that it was just like a walk in the park - I don&#x27;t even miss Nutella sandwiches I used to eat every morning - try oatmeal with nuts and honey or in the worst case - mascarpone sandwiches with some honey on top of it - delicious :D)