Well.....the week got off to a pretty good start. I felt that I did pretty well to avoid sugar. Although I was still having some fruit each day and the granola that I made has rice malt syryp in it (though no fructose), I didn't really consume any other sugar. Oh, and sometimes in the evening I have a few pieces of a very good quality dark chocolate, using coconut sugar to sweeten. Then I caved last night :(
My husband and I went on a date last night and we got pasta and galato to take away. The pasta, not a horibble choice of food but the galato, not such a good idea. See the problem with sugar, is once you start, you can't stop. And fructose especially, makes it so you can't tell if you're full or not. So you just keep eating. Which is what I did. So I had a lot of galato. And another thing that fructose does is you get a very short high, and then you crash. Which is what I did. Not long after having way to much galato, I crashed. I felt so tired and yuck.
Come today, I had a big headache and stomach cramps. So what does this tell me? I really can't and don't want, to have sugar. For the moment anyway. Starting Monday, and for 6 weeks after that, I won't having sugar at all, including fruit. This will hopefully reset my body and mind so that I will be able to know much sugar I can cope with. After this 8 week challenge, I'm not sure what will happen as I haven't made any hard fast rules about that. All I wanted to do was to do this challenge and see how I feel after that. I'm pretty sure though that I will want to keep eating this way. Throw in an occasinal treat once in a while, and maybe limit myself to 1 piece of fruit a day. We'll see!
One thing I am learning is to really be in tune with my body, to what it is saying. To listen when it's telling me to stop.
Thanks for reading :)
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