I'm still here.

I haven't abandoned my blog, far from it, I think about it often and what I should write. There comes my stumbling block - what should I write? The subject does seem to be a little too one dimensional to be able to delve into in depth.

I certainly haven't told many of the general populous that I'm not eating sugar as it seems to result in the same reaction.

Firstly the person looks at me as though I'm mad, they often give a high pitched laugh before launching in with comments regarding how they could never do that, they would but it's the chocolate you know. They couldn't live without the chocolate.

I know someone, online, who's son is an ex heroin addict. I say ex, but no one is ever an ex addict. Once addicted, always addicted. The difference is in the choice made. To keep going or to get help. I remember when she was at her wits end, when she didn't trust him nor believe a word he said. His desire for heroin overrode everything else.

I'm not saying that sugar does this to people but, as an outsider, I see it in a lot of people - it's as though sugar is humanity's shared dirty secret.

In the school I work in there are often cakes and biscuits in the staff room, left by someone who's celebrating their birthday. I no longer have any interest in them but I watch the staff do exactly what I remember doing. They come over, take one and sit down. They keep having little looks towards that packet, they laugh in a self effacing way and say "I'll just have one more!" Everyone laughs with them as they take one more. Then the others take that as their cue to have a cake too - they weren't the first to eat one, after all.

I see kids, my own included, see something sweet and sticky, their eyes get wider and they shout "chocolate!" excitedly. I even see it on kids tv when the presenters' eyes light up at the mention of something sweet, gooey and 'bad'. But they carry on normally, sometimes making negative faces, when taking about something healthy.

Sugar has made, and continues to make, the western population of this world fat. Our obesity issue is not down to our fat intake, it's the sugar or the sugar/fat combo.

My weight is still coming off - although I don't have vast quantities of weight to lose, I had put some on - in two months I have lost 6lbs. In my old fat-cutting days I'd have been horrified at how slowly it was coming off but I'm not trying now. I eat whatever I want, just without the sugar. I'm not suffering,  I'm rarely hungry and hardly think about food between meals.

I also haven't caught a single one of the colds that I've been in contact with during this time. And trust me, I've been sneezed on, coughed on and had bogies handed to me by numerous kids.

I know this entry in my blog seems very lecturey but it truly is just observation.