Sugar Makes Me Bitchy

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Danielle’s Confession…

What makes me so bitchy?

Have you ever been surprised at the irrational, even mean, comments that SLIP out of your mouth?

When it happens to me it’s almost an out of body experience.

For years I JUST thought that I was just overly emotional, slightly depressed, very hormonal…

It makes sense, I am a woman…I have PMS…and hypothyroidism; thyroid controls hormones and emotions…that must be it! That must be why I’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster for most of my life, right?!

My very patient husband would claim that I was really “sharp” with him during certain times of the month.

I can’t tell you how many times we would argue about nonsense, I became a nagging wife that I never wanted to be!

I love my husband very much and most of the time we get along wonderfully, but I do have my ups and downs! When I’m in my “sharp” mood, everything he does and says annoys the crap out of me and I need to make it known to the world, how wrong he is!

This is not the person I want to be!

When I feel the inner bitch is sleeping, I am confident and I know that I’m a good person, even a great person, especially people my life that I love. So, what causes me to be SO bitchy!

Could it possibly be what I’m eating?

The breaking point for me…

It was after my post Valentine’s Day bag of M&M when my inner bitch was released…

I wanted to do something special for my husband for Valentine’s Day. I took him to lunch and for a root beer tasting. I’m not that big into root beer, (in fact, I prefer to eat my sweets, not drink them). I tried a few different beers. I probably had a total of 4 oz of root beer at the most. I finished earlier than my husband who, by the way, was having a blast!

At some point in the 20 minutes after my 4oz root beer ingestion, I could feel my inner bitch take over. RAGE. I called his name to ask him how long he would be, and he didn’t turn his head to look at me. I could just feel myself get more and more agitated! I cut the tasting short and made my husband leave sooner than he was ready, and we argued the entire way home! The inner bitch was raging and I had no control over her.

I desperately wanted to crawl out of my skin!

I desperately wanted a lunch date do-over!

After telling a friend about the sweet day I planned and how it went sour, she casually mentioned that root beer contains more sugar in it than other sodas. I’m not really a soda drinker, so this has never occurred to me, but after she said that…it hit me like a ton of bricks!!

IT WAS THE SUGAR!!

The fog of confusion had lifted and it all started to make sense!

Could it possibly be that this emotional roller coaster that I’ve been on my whole life be about my sugar intake??

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