WIAW and Going Sugar Free - Weeks 3 & 4

Here I am halfway through week four of being sugar-free. I am nearing my cycle and so I am having some cravings, low moments and the random, "Ah, the heck with it, lemme have some cookies," moments. Then I tell myself to hold strong, they will pass- and they do.

 

Breakfast smoothie...Loads more, though not strictly sugar free, on my other blog.

 

 

I've found, especially courtesy of Super Bowl Sunday, that I'm eating more salt than I'd like or than I am accustomed to. Baked goods with sugar are fairly obvious, and my usual suspects: cookies, cakes, ice cream, pie, the things I expect to have sugar- because they do/I would bake them and add the sugar are being replaced with their salty counterparts.

I am finding there is sugar in sooooo much. (Yes, all those o's were totally necessary. and so is this:)

Gratuitous puffy cat tail. He does this when he purrs.

So instead of just dealing with the sugar in low amounts in certain foods, I'm foregoing them completely.

Examples: Balsamic vinegar (I love tomatoes and other veggies roasted this way, but a couple nights ago I ate this and it nearly did me in afterward. Not worth it to me.) Same goes for ketchup, breads and more. Sugar is known by many names including: corn sweetener, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, fruit juice concentrates, malt syrup, molasses, cane juice, and cane syrup. An ingredient ending in "-ose" often indicates sugar. I'm label reading like never before.

Here's lunch. Going sugar free? You bettah check yo' bread, before you wreck yo' bread. Or something like that. This is veg. ham, cheese, romaine and mustard.

 

Snack of the week. These were so good. I totally dumped the crumbs from the bag into my mouth, old-school Dorito style. Don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about!

 

I think almost as much as quitting sugar itself, this experience is teaching me to restructure my entire diet/approach to eating. When I want a snack, I have to ask myself, "Why? Am I truly hungry? Or am I bored, being social, responding to something emotional with food?" When I'm not actually hungry I'm often eating due to emotional stress. No biggie really, I'm only human and I'm not beating myself up over it, but if I don't want to feel the way I do when I eat sugar, I have to navigate this strange territory of new, different tastes, foods and what to do when I'm finding myself downing corn chips like M&M's.

Dinner: This amazing recipe for NOT meatballs from goop a couple weeks ago. Here's the link. I could seriously eat ten of these. I roasted some tomaters in evoo and salt, tossed in some basil and served over spaghetti, with side salad. So yum!

 

The biggest and most amazing resource I've found as I go sugar free is Sarah Wilson's I Quit Sugar. It is phenomenal, accessible to all readers, health-questers and the curious. She offers step-by-step tips to get started and stay motivated, facts to help you stick to your guns and deal with resistance. I don't know that I'd have made it this far without this ebook.  

 

 

 

 

 

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I am now an I Quit Sugar Affiliate, because I wish I had this book years ago when I tried and failed to ditch sugar for good and found myself presently in a desperate position to do so. There are also loads of recipes to move you through making the transition. Oh and the best part there's no quitting cold turkey in this program, so if you think, "I could never do it," Sarah will hold your hand and show you, you can.

 

 

 

Also check out Sarah's blog here. Please share your sugar-free journey or any food modification you've had to or chosen to make. I'd love to hear your story.

Living the Sweet Life, Sugar Free.
 



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