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Tripling My Protein Intake Flattened My Sugar Cravings
Low protein intake my have been driving my sugar addiction
I don’t know the first thing about nutrition but what I do know is that a Monster creeps into my room around 8 PM every night and waves Peanut M&M’s in front of my face.
Seriously, it’s a problem. So much of a problem, in fact, that it’s my second-most discussed problem in therapy, right after the impostor syndrome of trying to write articles like this. Not the war, not my childhood, not my sobriety. Peanut M&M’s.
I once bought a family-sized bag of Peanut M&M’s, the one that’s the size of a lady’s purse that she wears to a nice dinner, thinking I’ll just keep them in the end table next to my TV chair and have a handful or two when the mood strikes. Before I knew what happened, the bag lifted out of the drawer with my hand and I realized I was holding the last two Peanut M&M’s. I had heart palpations and sweat through my sheets that night. And the next day, I bought another bag. I tried everything: Iron-fisted abstinence, moderation, eating no sugar throughout the week and then as much as I could on Sundays, sickening myself to gear up for the next week of abstinence.
And then, I met a girl who chugs hard-boiled eggs from Costco. Seriously, she ate like six of them right out of…
