🎶 I want candy 🎶 🎶

I always thought that since I've never smoked and drink maybe 2 glasses of champagne per year I'd do pretty well without ailments, but I was wrong. Mismanaging the food and eating candy and drinking soda every day for the past 30 years finally took its toll.

Since last fall, I have known that my sugar intake in the form of sweets and soft drinks affects my dizziness, but it is only now that I am beginning to understand it. I have had headaches and dizziness every day since last summer. The dizziness comes every time I go to bed at night, after 5-10 seconds it goes away.

My dizziness specialist has explained that there are several causes of my dizziness. A migraine attack, for example, can trigger a more persistent and severe dizziness than the dizziness I have and have had for the past year. To overcome this I had to change my lifestyle, something that took a year to accept.

Since Monday, I haven't eaten sweets, drank soft drinks or had sugar in my tea once. The headache got worse every day until this morning when I woke up without a headache. In addition, I have made sure to eat protein at every meal, something I have been bad at. I'm thankful we found the butcher shop with the delicious burgers so I've been eating burgers or chicken every day. My dizziness specialist says my walking of 15,000-20,000 steps per day cannot replace cardio so I will have to replace walking with cardio going forward.

But damn, I didn't know you could miss candy so much!