A proper hello

Hi, I'm TheTeaLady and I'm a sugar addict.  I'm a friend of Daisy's, and I've kind of hijacked her blog.  I did ask and she accepted.  The deal is, once my three months are up, I will pass on the reigns to someone else who wants to accept the Three Months Sugar Free challenge. 

Where Daisy goes in life, I tend to follow at some point in the future.  She's what you'd call a good influence on me.  So, enough of singing her praises.  I've been toying with the idea of going sugar free for a while.  I have yeast issues, a family history of diabetes and obesity and a crazy sweet tooth.  I was borderline morbidly obese a couple of years ago, and though I have got down to a much healthier weight (Still slightly over weight, but I'm a mummy with a tummy and a fair amount of muscle too), I'm aware that I'm hideously addicted to sugar and it leads me on binges that can last several weeks.  I want to kick the habit before I lose my leg through diabetes like one family member, or my sight like two family members.  The realities of diabetes are very close to my heart.

So, I’m giving up the white powder.  Cold turkey.  Like Daisy, I’ve read a little on the old internet about what to expect.  I’ve obviously followed her progress and can call on her for advice.  I’m scared.  I’m worried about the hidden sugars in foods that I don’t associate as being ‘sweet’ foods.  I’m scared that, as a perfectionist, I’ll fail because I physically can’t remove all refined white powdery blissfulness from my diet.  I’m a busy mum who works and generally lives in the same manic world you all do.  I just don’t have time to cook every single thing from scratch.  So, I think my basic rules will be – cook what I can from scratch. No sweets, cakes, biscuits and all the obvious stuff.  No artificial sweeteners.  And eat sugar if it is listed as the 5^th ingredient or lower on the ingredients list.  Exciting times J

Oh, and if you caught my first rather brief post, I completed the 26.2 mile Moonwalk sugar free J