give up sugar for a week

I’m worried that I’m eating a LOT more sugar than I used to (I’m only going to include processed sugar in this as there’s no way I could give up fresh fruit, and I’ll just try to cut down on dired fruit intake) I want to prove to myself I can live without it.

I sometimes need a a little sugar to stop me fainting (so carry a small bar of chocolate or simialr around with me) but I’m hoping that if I pay more attention to the other foods I eat and how often I eat them I wont have to.

Just realised that I ate “weetabix” this morning, which I’m sure would have sugar in, and bread for lunch (but as the yeast “eats” all the sugar would this count? I think I’m going to keep eating bread.)
Will have to start my week from midday today.

I made many attempts, but I can’t stick to it.
I think I’m addicted and I really get nervous when I didn’t get enough sugar. The problem is not the sugar itself as sweetener for coffee or tea. I switched completly to artificial sweeteners, but I can’t live without chocolate or other sweets….
I will give it another try from tomorrow one, because I completed my goal to quit drinking for one month today and this gives me some motivation to keep clear of sugar for at last one week. Can’t be that difficult, can it?

I’m marking this as done. I think 160/168 hours counts as a week really, and I can’t see anything radical happening in the last 8 hours that would change how I felt about the experiment as a whole.

So, thoughts…

I found this surprisingly difficult. I’m not sure how much of this was down to a genuine (if slight) psychological/physiological addiction to sugar or if I craved sugary foods more than I normally would purely because I knew I couldn’t have them.

One thing I learned from what at times felt like an ordeal was the prevalence of sugar in everyday foods one wouldn’t normally expect. Pasta sauce and shop-bought veggie burgers spring to mind. I doubt it has any real effect in such minute quantities, but then that leads on to the question of: why include it in the first place? I certainly don’t know.

While this wee experiment hasn’t prompted me to give up sugar entirely, as I see nothing inherently wrong with it, it’s certainly opened my eyes a bit. Them rotten capitalists sticking sugar in everyfink man. :P

I crashed and burned with eight hours left to go. ‘What happened?’ I hear you ask, ‘you were doing so well.’

I got the days mixed up.

Yes, I managed to last six and a half days without so much as a biscuit and fell flat on my face at the last hurdle because I can’t remember what bloody day of the week it is.

_sobs

I tried to make sugarless vegan ice cream to satisy my craving.

It went a bit wrong. :/

Today has been a lot easier than the previous Day 3, strangely. Perhaps because my mood was a lot worse last week so I felt as if I needed something sweet to make me feel better. I’ve gone out to eat at my favourite restaurant a few times, which I suppose has emphasized the fact that something doesn’t have to be loaded with sugar for me to enjoy it. I also switched to a different brand of unsweetened soya milk which makes my porridge taste awful. :(

I’m optimistic though – I’m going to do my best to get through this week, if only to avoid prolonging this experience. :/

I went out with some people last night and had a coffee with soya milk and some of that awful Splenda stuff. And then today, falling off the wagon rather spectacularly, I had a piece of apple sponge with toffee sauce from a great vegan restaurant. It was positively orgasmic.

Humph.

I’m starting again tomorrow, I’ve got enough unsweetened soya milk to last me a while and I’m going food shopping so I’ll be sure to get lots of lovely fruit and veg.

It’s getting surprisingly hard now, more so than I had anticipated. I’ve found myself having fruit in some form with every meal but it doesn’t seem enough. Hmm, four more days.

Uggghhh vegan doughnuts!!!

Throughout the day I’ve had this sort of insidious craving for something sugary. It’s not just that it tastes nice, but I feel as though it’ll somehow make me feel better. Along with my dinner tonight I made a big glassful of fruit smoothie but I still feel as though I need something more. Ugh.