I've been following Sarah Wilson and Jules Clancy's blogs SarahWilson and The Stone Soup and learnt a lot about the joys of quitting sugar.
Recently I've been doing a lot of baking for various birthdays and using a lot of sugar. This means I eat ridiculous amounts as I taste test while I'm going and I noticed how awful I felt afterwards. Headaches and mood swings and general unwellness. I identified these feelings as sugar drops, and recalled my doctor suggesting I be careful with my diet after I confided my sudden 3-o'clock drops, particularly when I'm in the kitchen.
I know sugar is bad. We all do, really. So today after a week of feeling rubbish I declared myself sugar-free.
I don't know how long it will last. I don't know if I'll decide to keep at it, or become lazy and throw it in the too-hard-basket for next week or next year etc. But for now, lets have a crack.
Day 1: horrid headache, withdrawals I think. And moody. Doesn't help that I'm babysitting a screaming 1 year old. Nor that I had too much sugar yesterday.
DAY 1
Breakfast: oats cooked with water, seed mix added inc. chia, and a dollop of coconut cream. Not bad.
Lunch: lettuce, tomato and cucumber salad with a tin of lemon-pepper tuna (<1g sugar per 100g).
Afternoon: tin of 4-bean mix.
Evening: 4 sundried tomato corn thins and a handful of almonds.
Dinner: 2 celery sticks with hummus and peanut butter.
Drinks: 800mL bottle and 3-5 glasses of water + 1 black tea + 1 green tea
Breakfast: oats cooked with water, seed mix added inc. chia, and a dollop of coconut cream. Not bad.
Lunch: lettuce, tomato and cucumber salad with a tin of lemon-pepper tuna (<1g sugar per 100g).
Afternoon: tin of 4-bean mix.
Evening: 4 sundried tomato corn thins and a handful of almonds.
Dinner: 2 celery sticks with hummus and peanut butter.
Drinks: 800mL bottle and 3-5 glasses of water + 1 black tea + 1 green tea
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