Reduce my sugar intake

i had reduced my caffeine intakes drastically in the past weeks but i’m back again. it feels like the more stress i get the more coffee i take, like an addiction. i gotta get rid of that.

my mom has diabetes so i must be careful with sugar. specially because there’s sugar in things that aren’t necessarily sweet, like bread and pasta. i’ve been eating a lot of bread lately and i think i need more variety in my meals.

and i need more sweet things also, specially fruits. cause some days i just don’t eat sweet things at all and i compensate over the weekend eating a lot f sweet junkies.

there’s a chocolate bar in the fridge that i haven’t touched for 2 days now. it would never usually last there more than an hour. i fear there’s quite a bit of sugar in the chewable vitamin C tablets though that i’m popping like crazy to keep from getting sick.

That’s a VERY long time, okay?
I am aggressive and pissed off all the time, everything just sucks, I hate my life and everyone’s an idiot. Blah.
Sounds like I really AM addicted to sugar/carbs.
My goal is not to eat any sugar and as little carbs as possible while I am here at my parents’, that means, another 17 days. At least. I don’t really crave sweets or pasta or bread or whatever. I just feel like shit.
Like, today I dyed my hair and it looks really good. And I plucked my eyebrows and now I look like a filmstar. And I think I have lost some weight, too. But guess what, I don’t give a shit. So I am really pretty now, huh? Big deal! I’m not happy. I don’t care what I look like. I just want to sleep and hide. ;_;

So…I read that sugar binds to collagen or something and makes your skin wrinkley and saggy. Hopefully I won’t have to worry about that for another 5 years or so!

My strategies are:

1. Eating Whole grains instead of refined
2.Eat sweet vegetables
(yams, sweet potato, carrots, beets, onions etc.)
3.Eat nuts and fresh and dried fruits when craving sugar sweets.
4.When craving sugar, drink water
5.When necessary use raw honey, maple syrup, agave nectar, brown rice syrup, stevia instead of refined sugars.
6.Identify and decide what to cut out and what to cut back

ha…I can’t remember how long that lasted. But I know this much is true: NO more COOKIE DOUGH!

I like my tea really sweet, and I know that the less sugar/sweetener you use, the less you want, but gradual reduction isn’t working for me. So, starting on January 7th, I am going to drink all of my tea unsweetened for one week. No sugar, no Splenda, nothing. And we’ll see how it goes from there.

This probably means I’m going to have to start brewing my tea weaker. Feh.

No more ice cream for me. NO MORE!!!

somewhat working. though the holidays are the worst season for me. my mother makes sweets of all kinds JUST for me. everything is almost gone though and it has taken awhile to do so, but it’s working. i’ve stopped BUYING candy so that is definitely a step.