Oh, why am I cursed to never eat refined sugar?! It's not that I want to put that substance in my body, but it's just too hard to avoid altogether. If I can't have ANY refined sugar, I can't have any sauces at restaurants, or really anything (like ketchup) that just enhances your food (read: fries).
It was getting annoying to always have to ask waiters/waitresses "is there any refined sugar in that sauce/dressing/marinade?" The answer was usually yes, even if the rest of the restaurant was gluten-free-vegan-saving-the-world. So this week I decided to reintroduce just a small amount of refined sugar, assuming that being able to tolerate a small amount of sugar would re-open the tempting and convenient world of sauces/dressings/marinades.
Day 1: I ate a yummy dinner of sushi and miso soup (both of which have small amounts of refined sugar).
Day 2: I wrote in my food log, "almost-headachey all day."
Day 5: I added one teaspoon of refined sugar to my oatmeal in the morning. About 9 hours later I felt a "small pressure behind my eyes and on my temples" which lasted until I went to sleep.(Days 3, 4, and 6 were normal and I felt fine.)
In conclusion, a subtle amount of refined sugar leaves me with subtle headaches. I'm going to continue to avoid refined sugar, mostly because I don't want to screw up the results of anything else I reintroduce. In a couple of months I will try refined sugar again. People keep telling me that after staying away from a substance, you can eventually become tolerant of it again. Here's hoping.
PS- If you own a restaurant, would you just make it a policy to only use unrefined sugar? It's just better for everyone. Ok, thanks, you're nice.
On her journey to cure migraines, Julie learns to cook.
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