Sugar Turned On Me

To eat, or not to eat? That was the question.  Whether it was better for the blood to suffer the fats and sugars of outrageous Burger King sausage or to kick in the willpower versus a sea of easy choices?

Not wishing to futher murder the Bard’s eloquent words, I’ll clarify the situation I’m talking about above. I was taking my wife to an appointment and we stopped in a Burger King drive through to get her an orange juice. She offered to get me something if I wished. When the garbled voice started pouring out of the drive through speaker, I suddenly feltI had a decision to make.

As I drew out the syllables of “orange juice” to a grammatically improbable length, I considered my options. There had to be something on the menu I could trust. The only thing that popped into my head though as I tried with bleary morning eyes to make sense of the jumble of letters and prices that was their menu, the only thing I could think about was their obnoxious commercials for 69 cent sausage biscuits.

I don’t even like their sausage biscuits.

In the grand scheme of things, many of  the breakfast sandwiches I partake of without reservation are likely no healthier for me that what I could get from the King. My blood sugar was over 110 fasting this morning and I briefly considered not eating all, but by the time I cleared the “g” in orange, I recognized this as a cop out.

“So why am I opposed,” I asked myself and then added  “Why am I considering it at all?”

The answer was it was there, it was cheap and I was hungry. And “because it’s there” is not a good reason to eat something I might  regret shortly thereafter. Not because one biscuit would kill me, but because it was letting myself make a snap decision and letting them give me no other option than ones that might send me to the bathroom in an hour and to the hospital in a few years.

So in the end I decided to skip it and go about my business. In the long run I think I’m happier with decision. When it comes to my health and food that needs to work with my diabetes instead of against it, I don’t need to take the easy way out.

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