The First Day!

On Monday Jan 10th I made the decision that I needed to cut out the sugar from my life and that I was going to start the very next day. As an old friend to dieting I'm very familiar with the "I'm going to start tomorrow" statement. But this time I was serious, and it wasn't exactly a diet I was starting either. I have no plans to count calories or restrict how much I eat, simply change what I am eating. Well maybe that is not so simple, but nevertheless I'm going to do it.

I realize I may not be able to cut my sugar intake 100%, because sugar is in almost everything we eat nowadays, but I'm going to cut out absolutely as much as I can. Natural sugar found in milk, fruit, honey etc will be ok in moderation. Also I want to try and avoid artificial sweeteners, I read these only make sugar cravings worse.

Come Tuesday morning I did start. Looking through my cupboard at boxes of cereal I found only one that had low enough sugar content to be acceptable, plain Cheerios. This is generally a cereal I give to the kids and baby to munch on, but never myself. I tend to try and feed my kids healthier then I take care of myself. So I poured the bowl of cereal with milk and started munching away. Wow, this stuff taste like wood I thought, and I managed to make it through the whole bowl. The rest of the day I struggle to find things in the house that have low enough sugar content or none at all to be acceptable for my plan. And somehow I did it, I made it through the whole day sticking to my commitment. The whole day I had massive cravings for something sweet and it was harder then I thought it would be. It did not help that my pantry is a virtual smorgasbord of sweets and goodies. By the end of the day I had a horrible headache and went to bed feeling slightly hungry.