Eat zero refined sugar for a month

Re-set this as a goal two days ago. Promptly wolfed down all sorts of office-sugar-crap. Will re-set today as the start date. June 16th, for 30 days…

Did this once a few months back. I’m gonna do it again. Eating way too much sugary crap at the office…

In some ways it’s just a stunt, as it’s not a permanent change. But, having read that sugar is the single worst thing you can eat aside from broken glass, I’m glad to not have put it in my body for a month.

Now, if I could just kick that broken glass habit…

Funny, eating habits. At once so difficult and easy to change. I’m not having too hard of a time with this. It’s all habitual. It seems to me that there’s a 5 second period of impulse, and this probably applies to so many things in life, in which you might act on your more base desires, defying the path that the higher version of yourself has laid out and knows is ‘skillful’, as the Buddhists say…but if you just sit still for a moment and really look at what’s going on, you realize it’s not that big a deal and suddenly you move on. That’s the easy expression of it. Now having said that, the flesh is weak. But for simpler challenges, like sugar (for me), it’s quite easy to overcome if you just stop and recollect for a moment.

Let’s see if I’m so sanguine a few days from now. Maybe I’ll collapse like a house of cards.

Physically….not much of a difference…probably splitting hairs…but maybe a little less physical agitation/tremulity…less up and down…

I got a feeling this is going to be an easy one.

Too much sugar in the office at work. Too much mindless grazing. I’m convinced refined sugar compromises my immune system (only illnesses in the last 2 years have come immediately on the heels of heavy sugar intake). I’ve also noticed that it gives me a sort of subtle but uncomfortable ‘spike’ in body energy. An unwelcome, tremulous ‘buzz’. Followed of course by the subsequent crash.

So, an experiment, 30 days without…see how the body feels…

Actually, for fourteen years.

It’s funny, the less sugar you eat the less you want it after awhile. I feel much better for trying this.

This was actually not as difficult as I thought it would be. I had great support though. I am making a new goal with a new twist, because I feel much better…

I feel lighter, slimmer somehow. I haven’t lost any weight, but I just feel leaner…

Going strong. Resisted truffles after diner last night. They were on the table! White and dark. And I resisted.