Still Working on My Sugar Dependency

After getting a diagnosis last year of prediabetes, I cut all sweets from my regular diet, out of pure fear. I didn’t know it wouldn’t last. I thought finally — at the age of 56 and after 28 years of trying to kick the sugar habit — I’d found the motivation I needed to never buy another snack cake or cookie. I was completely wrong.

With drastically reduced sugar intake, I gained energy, reduced hunger and lost weight. But life stress had me back on the sweet stuff by Halloween. After reading a book about reversing cognitive decline in December, I went back off the…