no sugar: day 4
This hasn't been too hard so far, although it was hard to turn down peanut m&ms yesterday. At least the free food on Thursday was cheese, crackers, chips and guacamole, instead of cookies. And pineapple. Fruit doesn't count as sugar, right? I think I will be eating a lot of fruit.
Today I went grocery shopping planning to get some non-sugary snacks*. I thought I was doing well by choosing mini-bagels and wheat crackers, instead of tortilla chips and artificially cheese-flavoured things, but apparently sugar is lurking everywhere. I was going to be super-good and get whole wheat bagels, but they had four times the sugar of the plain ones, and twice the sugar of the cinnamon raisin ones! You'd think that after that, I would have checked the label on the wheat thins, but I didn't notice that they contain 12.9% sugar, until after I'd eaten a few. Yay for high fructose corn syrup, once again... Does this mean I have to start over?
* I'm fairly sure I won't be seeing the same results as Styleygeek in terms of "wanting to eat only when hungry" or "loss of junk food cravings", or even "unexpected weight loss", since I'm happy to substitute salty, high-fat snacks for sweet ones.
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posted by Lucy @ 6:12 PM
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Okay, so I'm totally cheating on my no-internet this weekend thing. In my defense, I hate my thesis. No, wait, that isn't a good excuse, is it?
The eating something savoury then discovering it was 20% sugar thing happened to me a lot at first too. I didn't restart my days counted for that, but I didn't eat the rest of the packet when I noticed it, either :)
I also ate a lot more savoury junk food at first as well, but I find that I can eat half a pack of something savoury/fatty and save the rest for later, which I could never do with chocolate and sweets, so I think I wasn't eating as much savoury junk food as I formerly had in sweet junk food. I know it doesn't work like that for everyone, though. Geekman can only eat half a piece of cake, or a few pieces of chocolate in one sitting, but once he opens a bag of corn chips, there's no stopping him :)
Oh, and fruit definitely doesn't count as sugar. I have probably quadrupled the amount of fruit I eat and it tastes so great, since it's probably the sweetest thing I eat (I have found in the last couple of weeks that pineapple, lychees, grapes etc are a little TOO sickly, but mangoes, nectarines and peaches are AWESOME).
Good luck with this sugar thing. I will feel totally responsible if you end up hating it :)
I did put the rest of the Wheat Thins out for my housemates to use. I'm glad I don't have to start over.
I bought some cheese-flavoured crackers today, instead. At least they have no sugar, and are made with whole grains, apparently.
I think, sadly, that I can just keep eating unhealthy snacks of either kind.
I have been enjoying pineapple and I wish I could get lychees here; I hope I don't end up disliking them!
And don't worry, I won't blame you :)
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