What finally made you give up sugar?

[u/travelnmusic]

Bonus points if you tried more than once.

[u/General_Dragonfly881]

I’m allergic and I also have a genetic disease that could cause strokes if I eat too much sugar and processed food

[u/iAMTinman_Dealwithit → u/General_Dragonfly881]

It’s interesting to hear about different allergies in people. How did you find it out initially?

[u/General_Dragonfly881 → u/iAMTinman_Dealwithit]

I didn’t find out until my senior year of high school a few years ago. I grew up wondering why other kids liked candy so much, because it burned to me and was almost like eating extremely spicy food, I still ate it though because it still tasted good and other people were estatic about sweet stuff . To me it’s like eating anything sweet but also it leaving a painful burning sensation. Sometimes my eyes water, I get itchy and sometimes hard to breathe even just by being around it. It’s still a work in progress to what I’m allergic to exactly but for now it’s narrowed down too “sweetners and chocolate”. Fruits don’t harm me. But candy, most chocolates, cake, cookies, some milkshakes, some smoothies even does it for me. Vanilla ice cream doesn’t though. I found out by just expressing the feeling I got more around the end of Highschool because the whole time I shoved it off because I thought it was supposed to be like that, “spicy” in a way.

[u/iAMTinman_Dealwithit → u/General_Dragonfly881]

Appreciate you for sharing this. You added substance and perspective for me.