A new wave of craziness in the form of health is sweeping through America and I just have to step up and stand up for what I think is right (and sane). Although I applaud the folks out there who are detoxing their bodies by eliminating sugar (gasp!) from their diets, I'm only being honest when I say I SERIOUSLY can't imagine a day without ANY sugar in it. Perhaps there's a little bone of jealousy when I witness those perfect bodies sipping their 6th (!) bottle of water that day, abs so cleanly sculpted I wonder how babies ever came from that body. Okay, yes, I would love to be the kind of person who never has a coke, a cookie, or a Cherry Lifesaver, but I know myself too well, and that's just NOT gonna happen, y'all!
So for today, just for fun, I'm going to play devil's advocate and ponder just what might happen when one (specifically me) completely eliminates sugar from her daily activities. Here goes:
1. Baby Tate decided not to sleep much last night and Mom (me) has several classes to teach this morning. A Coke would really get her going, but no, she's given up sugar and must survive on Water???? to get motivated to run 6 girls 8 miles on a treadmill. Not much hope in that one and my runner girls leave the Y with hardly a drop of sweat on their Nike t's.
2. I've regrouped and later in the day I head out for a run in the Georgia heat. I make it, feeling great, and round the corner to my house. This time the sweat IS dripping and nothing would be better than to cool off with a popsicle on the back porch with my boys. But, no, this mom gave up sugar, so that popsicle has to be replaced with um, um, I still don't know, while I watch Popsicle juice drip from their sticky little fingers.
3. Homemade Ice cream-- how in the world am I going to teach my boys how to truly be Southern if I can't share with them in the timeless tradition of peaches drowning in sugar and cream, dipped from an aged to perfection ice cream maker. I can't stand the thought of my handsome boys headed to a fraternity party at the Ole Miss KA house and tasting their first-ever porch-churned ice cream. Fraternity brothers would gasp, little sisters would whisper, and they might get black-balled. And why? Because years ago their mom gave up sugar! Not on my watch. And while I'm on the subject of food, let me just throw out two more uber-important words: banana pudding.
4. I've already mentioned how much I love weddings (as long as I'm not a member of the party), but really WHY on earth would I get all dolled up on a hot Southern Saturday and not plan on ending it with a big sugary slice of wedding cake? What am i trying to prove? Along those same lines, can I add tail-gating, baby showers, retirement receptions, and church picnics where the dessert table literally calls my name? I might as well stay home in sweat pants and do laundry if I'm going to forgo the goods on the table.
5. Finally, I have to end where I stared, because really, I think numbers 2,3, and 4 could (with some help from Dr. Phil) be erased from my day, but I absolutely COULD NOT give up my Coca-Cola. At the end of a marathon, my awesome husband waits for me with a cold coke; same with child birth-- I had an iced down Coke in my hand within minutes of delivering my Tate. And if I won the Superbowl, I WOULD NOT be going to Disney world; I'd be going to the World of Coke.
So there, just a sample of why this world (and my little family) is a high functioning, happy, and all-around better place because of sugar.
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