matthewken4722
Trick or Treat
This is a very disturbing image for me, and most likely for everyone viewing it. I recently been convicted about my personal sugar intake, and been inspired to create an image that captures sugar as an addiction. This is a sobering image to me. I’m not saying that sugar is evil, but it is a substance that can be abused like a drug. Ingesting sugar literally causes pleasure by releasing oxytocin (the pleasure hormone) in the brain.
I still like and enjoy sugar. A couple of months ago, I almost completely dropped sugar from my diet (excluding natural sugars like fruit.) As a result, I dropped 15 lbs within a month, and I felt great and had more energy. All because of sugar! (Or lack thereof.) I’m currently trying to find a healthy median between enjoy sweet treats (I LOVE pastries,) but doing so in a godly way. My wife bought me scones and chocolates last week for my birthday, and I binged… so this week I’ve been detoxing… Or trying. Yesterday I created this image, then promptly left for an event where I ate too much funnel cake. By another’s standards it may not have really been “a lot,” it was barely ¼ of plate. But it’s obvious my tolerance for it has lowered, because it was too much for me. I definitely felt it afterward: physically by way of headache and general grossness, and the sugar shakes. I’m not sure what a healthy “dosage” of sugar looks like for me, but it is something I’m praying through. I think the funnel cake hit me so hard because it was more processed sugar than I have been eating. Meanwhile natural honey, for whatever reason, is something I can eat without feeling a stomach ache, headache, or sugar shakes. For this upcoming week I’m going to keep detoxing, and perhaps next week I can pray through eating one sweet treat a day, or something similar… HMM!
Tomorrow I’m going to post a picture of the shoot for this image, and the process of creating it. I wanted to post them at the same time, but I just ran out of time.
To plant a seed that sugar is an addictive substance, and to share my story with sugar recently
Trick or Treat
This is a very disturbing image for me, and most likely for everyone viewing it. I recently been convicted about my personal sugar intake, and been inspired to create an image that captures sugar as an addiction. This is a sobering image to me. I’m not saying that sugar is evil, but it is a substance that can be abused like a drug. Ingesting sugar literally causes pleasure by releasing oxytocin (the pleasure hormone) in the brain.
I still like and enjoy sugar. A couple of months ago, I almost completely dropped sugar from my diet (excluding natural sugars like fruit.) As a result, I dropped 15 lbs within a month, and I felt great and had more energy. All because of sugar! (Or lack thereof.) I’m currently trying to find a healthy median between enjoy sweet treats (I LOVE pastries,) but doing so in a godly way. My wife bought me scones and chocolates last week for my birthday, and I binged… so this week I’ve been detoxing… Or trying. Yesterday I created this image, then promptly left for an event where I ate too much funnel cake. By another’s standards it may not have really been “a lot,” it was barely ¼ of plate. But it’s obvious my tolerance for it has lowered, because it was too much for me. I definitely felt it afterward: physically by way of headache and general grossness, and the sugar shakes. I’m not sure what a healthy “dosage” of sugar looks like for me, but it is something I’m praying through. I think the funnel cake hit me so hard because it was more processed sugar than I have been eating. Meanwhile natural honey, for whatever reason, is something I can eat without feeling a stomach ache, headache, or sugar shakes. For this upcoming week I’m going to keep detoxing, and perhaps next week I can pray through eating one sweet treat a day, or something similar… HMM!
Tomorrow I’m going to post a picture of the shoot for this image, and the process of creating it. I wanted to post them at the same time, but I just ran out of time.
To plant a seed that sugar is an addictive substance, and to share my story with sugar recently