I Need Sleep!
I’m sorry it has been so many days since I have posted. I’m afraid my brain was on hold.
So tonight I’ll show you some very pretty pictures of the garden outside The National Museum Of Korea and I’ll tell you why my brain was out for lunch.
When I started to clean up my eating habits about three weeks ago I completely quit sugar. I also knocked out all artificial sweeteners, honey, and even fruit.
This was important because I am prediabetic and controlling my blood sugar will help me lose weight and extend my life and hopefully feel better in general.
I knew from past experience than sugar detox can be really hard. But I had never quit fruit before, so this was new territory. I never knew it would hurt as bad as it has. My whole body has been filled with aches and pains. My moods have been even worse than usual too.
Going down this pathway has also brought on severe insomnia. Usually sleep is pretty tough to come by in this house with my husbands’ crazy schedule. Having the kids out of school and staying up way too late also throws my body clock off. It seems that the sun takes forever to go down and I don’t feel sleepy until midnight.
But when the sugar was removed my brain had no way to produce much Seritonan. Self medicating with sugar is what I have done when I have not been on medication. I have always been slightly depressive my whole life and have used antidpressants to get through rough patches before. But who would have thought that adjusting my diet to be healthy would have made me unable to sleep?
Too weird.
So rather than tough it out any longer I got the Doc to put me on Wellbutrin so I could start feeling better. That was three days ago and it is already starting to help. I’m struggling a bit with sleep still, but Tylenol PM is good for that. I hope once the antidepressant gets fully up to speed (two weeks wait), that I’ll feel evened out and wont need the Tylenol PM.
I’m going to keep up the healthy eating. I have lost an amazing 8 pounds in 3 weeks from cutting out sugar. I think I will add fruit back in though. It is too tough to live without summer watermelon and cherries. I miss smoothies too and know that a really healthy breakfast can be made with fruit, tofu and milk all blended together. Yummy.
So here I am again, and life is feeling better.
Tags: sugar detox, Wellbutrin
