give up sugar

Yes I can. I can give up sugar. I did it for 2 years. I had sugar free stuff and whole wheat stuff- but didn’t overdo it like I do with sugar. The hard thing is, I was single when I did it, and now I am married with little kids, and it’s so hard to have desserts and snacks at home for my hubbie and kids and not eat it myself. My husband tells me I can get rid of it all whenever I want, so maybe I will. Or at least not buy it anymore, and let the stuff in the house dwindle down till we don’t have any sugary stuff anymore, and then we can just have dessert type stuff when we go out. I don’t want my kids to inherit my overeating sugar habits though, and if I deny them too much…on the other hand, we get so much sugar everywhere. They get stuff at school and church and birthday parties and all that. Also, I think if I’ve given it up for awhile and my cravings go away and I have the habit, I can have sugar around the house again without giving in to it. So, starting tomorrow, no direct sugar…..if there’s small amounts in salad dressing and stuff like that I am not going to worry about it, but all cookies, desserts, candy, sweet breads, etc. I am giving up! My first goal is to do this for 1 week. I will take it day by day. At the end of 1 week I will celebrate by buying myself a pair of earrings!

yup on and off for years i’ve been dipping my toes into the addiction process and now you know what i’ve got to just get on with it – Sugars one of my biggies so here goes. I’ve been looking at what others have to say about it and already finding pointers to info, support etc – so yup all good really.

today is day one without added sugar in my diet!!its going ok.. I resisted a yogurt, a bar, bread etc.. I have stuck to fruit..yay!!!but one thing i did is i ate ketchup with dinner and a potatoe which is high in sugar so wil be extra good tomorrow!!

I really need to give up sugar!!Im on a battle to lose weight. I have lost 7pounds however once i eat one biscuit, bar, yogurt, anything sweet i want the whole packet and il keep eating and eating till I feel sick. So Im guna do it.. Im guna give up sugar…forever!!!!iv already givin up bread which is a start so il updazte my progress every few days to keep myself on track!

I really need to give up sugar!!Im on a battle to lose weight. I have lost 7pounds however once i eat one biscuit, bar, yogurt, anything sweet i want the whole packet and il keep eating and eating till I feel sick. So Im guna do it.. Im guna give up sugar…forever!!!!iv already givin up bread which is a start so il updazte my progress every few days to keep myself on track!

Thanks for the reminder of the anti-sugar books. About 10 years ago in college I read a bunch of them and I was on a hypoglycemia mailing list. I remember the first book on the subject, Sugar Blues, and now I’m finding it inspiring to read the comments on the Amazon page for the book.

The last time I had sugar was yesterday afternoon, so I haven’t had any “detox” yet, but psychologically I feel more free because I decided to not have any sugar this month. Also I like the goal because it’s very manageable. I don’t need to have a perfect diet. I can eat a stick of cream cheese if I wanted to. Just no sugar. And if I want to eat a cup of sugar on June 1st I could.

Usually I don’t eat much sugar, but then I get into periods where I’m eating lots of sugar, often in the late afternoon and then find it hard to break that habit. The times when I’ve given up sugar, I’ve felt so good afterwards. Once I went 2 whole months and then at Thanksgiving my mom made brownies and I felt obligated to eat one when I really didn’t even want anything sweet. But then I caught the sugar bug again.

My sugar bug this time has been mixing sugar and cocoa together in a cup and eating the powder with something - cereal, coconut, yogurt, etc. And I feel kind-of itchy and weird afterwards. Or baking food I don’t need like banana bread and eating too much of it. So I threw out my bag of sugar and plan to go without just for the month of May and then I will see how I feel. I’m also cooking more real protein food like chicken that makes me feel full.

I’ll check in at the end of the weekend to see how the detox is.

i love chocolate too much and those fucking awesome caramel macchaittos. damnit.

i just ate some cake real fast. i feel ok about this slip.

two days so far!