At first I thought that this blog could rapidly descend into boring-land as I was likely to get drawn into repetitions of "i didn't eat sugar. I feel super energetic." Ya know, it's not screaming "fun!" is it!
So... I planned to read a little. A little pro sugar some anti sugar and report on my findings and thoughts but Holy Crap there is A LOT out there in interwebs land *shudders*. All sincere and all contradicting each other. One thing I found interesting was a sort-of investigation done by identical twins. One gave up all sugars for a month while the other gave up all fats for the same month. Given their identical genetic make-up it should make it a fairly even test.
Their findings were that neither option seemed better than the other and further findings showed that the big issue was with the mix of sugar and fat. Apparently it's the combination that switches off the 'I'm full now' switch in our brain. So chocolate, desserts, cakes all these things that we consider to be treats are what lead us to eat more of them.
For me it's been, what? A couple or three weeks? Something like that and I'm hardly getting cravings. I would still like a big fat slice of carrot cake but that's different from losing sight of everything until I manage to get some.
Although my daughter came home from a trip to Cadbury World today and, in her possession were three bars of chocolate and a bag of chocolate buttons. I must confess that I dove into the larder with a teaspoon and had a mouthful of honey to deal with wanting the chocolate!
All in all, and so far, life without sugar is going well. Of course, I may have pms to deal with - I'll let you know how that goes...
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