Saturday, September 27, 2014

Me Minus You, I mean, Sugar

On August 25, I promised myself that I would stay away from sugar. I don't have too many bad habits. I barely drink alcohol. I don't smoke. Barely drink soda. So my one vice was sugar. I could eat a whole bag of M&Ms (the BIG one) all by myself... and probably in one or two sittings. I can go shop at Sam's club (and we all know those are not small packages) and buy cupcakes and cakes and I would eat it all within the week. So, with all the working out and starting to eat healthier, I decided to also try cutting out sugar from my diet. So far, I do miss eating it. But, since August 25, I have lost 164.4 - 158.7 = 5.7 lbs!

I'm excited. I haven't been in the 150 range in a very long time. All the working out and the eating better wasn't allowing me to lose weight quick enough. Friends are saying that they are seeing the weight loss. But, I wasn't seeing it. You are your harshest critic. But, waking up and seeing that scale below 160 lbs has been a really good feeling. Unbelievable, almost.

After October 14, I will allow myself to have some sugar back into my diet. But, I do not want to allow myself to believe that it is ok for me to take in as much sugar as I did before.The more educated I become about what I am putting into my body... the more I realize that sugar really is not good for me. Cancer feeds off of the sugars in our body... and if I can help it, I want to not help that mutation start. (We have a family history of cancer.) I remember seeing a video on Facebook about how sugar makes your brain behave like it's on drugs. I'm sure a little sugar is needed in our bodies to function daily, but we are a generation of excess and we are abusing the sugar available to our bodies. Mine... I know I abused sugar.

Nowadays, I find my sugars in fruits. Grapes are so sweet tasting lately. And I drink water infused with various water flavors such as the Crystal Light water drops. These little droplets are sweet even though I don't put a lot in my water. I usually have a 32 oz water bottle at my desk and I squeeze some into the water to give it a boost. Not so boring going down. Because I do this, my mouth always has a sweet taste to it. This seems to be enough of a taste to squash my sugar cravings for now.

I am hoping to lose a little more weight this year. I am hoping that if I can stay away from the sugars I can reach my mid-point goal by the end of this year.

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