So it’s my bday!! and my dear friend hands me a most delicious looking lemon raspberry cupcake with white chocolate shavings. Looking at it, I am touched by his generosity, thank him and wonder what I was going to do with it. Well getting home 20 minutes later after Yoga, I bring the cupcake inside and decide to take a small bite, trying to remember the last time I had eaten cake or even white flour products (must be at least 3 years). The first bite was delicious, the second bite even better, and this cupcake became dinner. Well I did enjoy each bite, thinking to eat a few pepper strips and some plain yogurt to add some nutrient density to my “dinner.” I drank a big glass of water and fell into bed about 90 minutes later. This “dinner” was a far cry from my usual tempeh and fresh broccoli stir fries made with cumin, coconut oil. ginger and garlic.

The next morning I woke up 2 minutes before my alarm 5:58am, jumped out of bed and thought it was Tuesday (in fact, it was Thursday morning). I got out of bed, peeled my egg and grabbed a piece of sourdough toast (w 1Tbsp sunflower seed butter) along with a few carrot sticks, grabbed a large glass of water and felt like going back to bed. Needing to leave the house by 7am, I made a cup of 1/2 caff coffee and headed out. 7:30am rolls around and I am foggy and mentally lethargic. Did I drink a bottle of wine last night? Whatever this was, felt three times as worse. An hour later, still feeling “loopy” and lethargic and wanting to go back to bed, I decided to make my kale/spinach, banana, berry protein smoothie. It took that smoothie plus lunch of a homemade bean and veggie burger and handful of raw almonds plus lots of water before I started to feel any energy come back. I will admit to taking a 20 minute power nap right after lunch too.

This is the most unusual low energy day I have had in a very long time and all I can contribute it to is the sugar. Sugar is a powerful “drug” that so many of us do not realize our own addiction. Cutting sugar out of your diet will improve your energy levels at least 3 times greater!! Imagine the possibilities:)