In the past year, friends around me think that I have become hypocritical because I quit sugar. I don’t eat fruits, desserts, and dairy products. In addition to the food selection rules, I basically become Without the insulator of delicious food, it is very difficult to make an appointment for a meal or a HIGH TEA. I really don’t know what to eat!
How could I, a foodie made of pure gold, achieve the feat of giving up sugar? It’s not just for skin care, it’s mainly for physical problems. In early May last year, my fingers and toes were suddenly covered with dense blisters. I didn’t care about it at first, they didn’t itch or hurt, and I could just pinch the blisters to pass the time when I was bored. As time goes by, the blisters grow and become more numerous, and the worst part is: after the blisters disappear on their own, the skin starts to peel off on the fingers, which makes me sick to death!
I was frightened, thinking I had some serious skin disease, so I quickly made an appointment with a familiar Chinese medicine doctor to check my pulse. Unexpectedly, the doctor said: "Sweat herpes, it's okay!" and dismissed me. Don't you even prescribe me any medicine? ! Unwilling to give in, I began to consult other Chinese medicine practitioners, and finally found out what "sweat herpes" was.
Sweat herpes: "Small blisters deep in the epidermis, the size of rice grains, hemispherical, slightly higher than the skin surface, no inflammatory reaction, scattered or clustered on the palms, sides and tips of the fingers, rarely seen on the back of the hands, The blisters are often symmetrically distributed on the soles of the feet and contain clear serous fluid. In short, they are small translucent blisters on the fingers and palms. As for Western medicine, there is no other solution except hormone drugs, so most people endure it.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, sweat herpes is caused by dampness. When it comes out of the pores, the pores are blocked, and stagnation of heat occurs in the blocked areas. However, the pores do not open, and there is no way to advance or retreat. It is iron-locked. Hengjiang. To put it simply, moisture cannot be discharged from the body through pores normally, because moisture is characterized by stickiness, which is as sticky as jelly. Pores and organs are easily wrapped and blocked by dampness, which can easily cause various diseases in the body. .
Traditional Chinese medicine has a very profound understanding of dampness. Theoretically, "dampness" is divided into two types: exogenous dampness and endogenous dampness. "External dampness" is mostly caused by the humid living environment, working in water, not drying your hair in time after bathing and washing your hair, etc. Dampness invades the human body from the outside. "Internal dampness" is mostly caused by a preference for eating cold drinks and a gluttony for cold foods such as raw and cold fruits and vegetables, which damages the human body's yang energy, leads to a deficiency of spleen yang and the accumulation of water and dampness in the body.
Based on my own situation, when I was a child, I lived in the rainy Guizhou Province, and internal dampness accompanied me growing up. On the other hand, I have always been a loyal fan of desserts, fruits, yogurt and other moist food, and I can’t stop eating them. Under the double attack of external dampness and internal dampness, the body finally cannot bear it and begins to resist. Don't ignore this resistance. This must be a signal sent by the body to us. The top priority is: remove dampness.
Exogenous dampness stays on the surface of the body and can be removed through moxibustion, medicinal baths, exercise and other methods, which is relatively easy to solve; while internal dampness must rely on willpower to cut off the "intimate contact with food" "In order to achieve this, I resolutely joined the army of quitting sugar. When I made up my mind, I discovered that sugar is everywhere in life: in addition to fructose in natural fruits, lactose in milk, starch in staple foods, natural honey, and sucrose (white sugar, Rock sugar, brown sugar), glucose, including starch syrup, maltose syrup, glucose syrup, fructose syrup, etc. commonly used in the food industry. Of course, I choose the most sugary foods: dairy products, cakes, desserts, and fruits.
For a foodie, the process of quitting sugar is painful. There are temptations around you all the time, such as the office tea time every day, the coffee that refreshes you every day, the endless seasonal fruits that emerge season after season, and weekends. Tea parties between friends...are dominated by sugar and are hardest hit by humidification. Every time temptation appeared, I was not unmoved, but I knew very well that a cup of milk tea or a piece of cake would make all my previous efforts in vain, so I gave up the idea silently.
At the beginning, quitting sugar was not only a test of willpower, but also a test of hunger resistance.
Every day around four o'clock in the afternoon, my stomach starts to growl, and I feel so hungry that my heart and lungs are scratched. This is also the time when it is easiest to break the gong. I open the takeout over and over again, and all kinds of delicious food are passed one by one. Really Very painful. Later, I prepared beef jerky, dried vegetables, sesame paste and other small snacks in the office. I would eat a few bites when I was hungry, and after a while I no longer felt hungry. Then I discovered that this feeling of hunger was actually caused by "sugar addiction". Long-term wrong eating habits have made the body extremely dependent on sugar. When the body started to eat without added sugar, it sent out wrong messages and confused people. us.
After quitting sugar for half a month, I began to feel changes in my body. First, the sweat blisters on my hands and feet disappeared one after another, and no new ones stopped growing. The skin on my hands gradually became smoother, that is, It said that the moisture in the body began to decrease; the second was that the legs were swollen and deflated. I sat for a long time at work and maintained the same posture for a long time. My legs would feel swollen every afternoon, and my shoes and pants would feel obviously tighter than in the morning. These two changes also strengthened my confidence in quitting sugar and eliminating dampness. After quitting sugar for a month, I happened to go back to my hometown in Guizhou. When everyone saw me, they exclaimed at the first sight: You have lost a lot of weight. In fact, in the first month, when I was not used to a sugar-free life, I ate a lot more and gained a few pounds. But after the moisture wrapped in the surface of the body was discharged, I no longer looked bloated, and I looked slim and slender.
After that, I started to observe the changes after quitting sugar, and I made many surprising discoveries:
Skin: Facial skin is no longer greasy, pores become smaller, blackheads reduce, and no longer grow. The pimples close up and become smooth and delicate. The skin on my calves is no longer prone to flaking and roughness, and even without moisturizing body lotion, it looks shiny;
Hair: The scalp becomes less oily and hair loss decreases. I don’t like washing my hair. Even if you wash your hair once every five days, there will be no odor;
Body shape: The body shape becomes firm and slender, and it is not easy to gain weight and edema. My waist, abdomen, back, and neck have all become thinner. My clothes have become one size smaller. Even my fingers, which are the most difficult to lose weight, have become thinner. All my rings have become 1-1.5 sizes too big.
Defecation: Defecation is normal and smooth, no more constipation or diarrhea, and stool no longer sticks to the toilet
Body odor: In the middle of summer, no matter how much you sweat, you don’t feel uncomfortable It's sticky, there's no smell of sweat at all, and even the mosquitoes don't bother me anymore.
Spirit: My spirit has improved, I have more energy every day, I am no longer easily sleepy, and I am no longer in the dizzy state of being unable to wake up. My memory has also improved unconsciously.
After observing these physical changes, I became more determined to quit sugar, and before I knew it, more than half a year had passed. Of course, there will be occasional violations during this period, but the body becomes extremely sensitive. Every time you eat the illegal food, you will be "punished". Either there will be more phlegm, or you will develop acne and closed mouth, or you will develop eczema. What I am most often "punished" for is having my forehead and chin closed, which is not only a physical problem, but also a face problem. Over time, I got used to a sugar-free life. Of course, my body told me: Sugar-free makes me feel relaxed, and that’s why I will go further and further on the road of quitting sugar and getting rid of dampness!
After reading my journey of quitting sugar, are you also very excited? I will give you a moisture self-test chart. If one or two of them fall into the trap, it means that you have been affected by "dampness evil". "In case of invasion, dehumidification should also be put on the agenda. Add csr_angela to join the big family of quitting sugar and removing dampness~