Addicted to sugar- free gum!!!
Ok, I am TOTALLY sick of my addiction to sugar-free gum, now! I am fearful that I will give myself cancer, at this rate, from those artificial sweeteners that they use! I swear, you would be astounded at how I have been chewing gum for months, now! I am such a GOOD addict! Now I am up to two pieces at a time, and quite chain-chewing - - piece after piece after piece. I buy my gum at the dollar store but leave with $6 worth at a time and that is chewed up in only a couple of days! That is 15 sticks to a pack! So, this morning, I am gathering up all of my leftover gum to give to my mom when she passes through town on Wednesday! (I hate throwing anything away!) I don’t want to die of cancer or have tongue cancer, all from my stupid gum addiction! I eat SO clean and healthy and work out, so I SHOULD be healthy for a long, long time! This has been the only unhealthy thing I have put in my body for a long time!
Perhaps this might even help with my weight moving downwards a bit, again…. by stopping the gum chewing.
Can anyone out there relate? When I embarked on losing weight again, I embarked on my gum addiction again, too. So, I am SICK of it now and worried about my health, so I am hoping that TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF MY LIFE WITHOUT GUM!
A few years ago, I did the same thing, and had to go cold turkey and DID break my addiction, thank god. So, I KNOW I can do it again! I just can’t start with one stick, because my mouth says "Oh yes! We love to chew! We love food and taste in our mouth! Let’s keep at it!" So no, this is it!
You all can keep me accountable!
Had a good workout this morning. Actually made it through my personal trainer’s workout. Not as bad as I had feared - and believe me, I fear her workouts come every Monday when I know I am going to have to embark on them! I am now taking Sundays off, so that always gives me a good start for Monday, too.
Hope you all are well! I look forward to hearing from you!
October 13, 2008 at 5:36 am
Haha. I love how you say you’re afraid of getting cancer from the gum and then you say you’ll give the leftovers to your mom.
I don’t think you’ll get mouth cancer from that. There’s no evidence of it ever happening.
Just don’t buy it anymore. You do have control over yourself and your actions. And there’s nothing wrong with throwing something out that you have no intentions of using anymore.
October 13, 2008 at 5:41 am
Yeah, no - chewing as much gum as I have been for months now, and I mean SO MUCH every day - there IS a possibility, I think. You would be amazed how much I have been chewing in a day! Uggggh!
I know my mom would only chew one piece at a time, once in a while! Not like me!
You are right about throwing things out. I just have a really hard time with that - I don’t like to waste food! People are starving!
Thanks so much for writing! I hope you are doing well!
October 13, 2008 at 7:49 am
WOW, to me it seems like you have some really deep seeded issues and fears here. None that seem normal, my suggestion would be to see someone, maybe a Psychotherapist or something.
These fears seem a wee bit abnormal if you ask me.
October 13, 2008 at 7:51 am
No - REALLY! You would NOT BELIEVE how much gum I have been chewing ! Like PACKS AND PACKS a day! It has got to be not good for a person, for months and months on end, with these artificial sweeteners and all! You should see the havoc it already reeks on my digestive system!!! So no, I am not overreacting. I can chew packs and packs of gum just in a couple of hours. It is not good! So I am proud of myself for going cold turkey, starting today!!! : )
October 13, 2008 at 9:47 am
part of my reply was into your problem of gum chewing, and the obsessive disorder you seem to be displaying in chewing so much