Sugar Blues

[maevemacaraab]

I’m sure the part of me that likes sugar is wondering what the hell is going on. Last night I dreamed that I stole pudding from ladies on the street, like snatched it right from their hands and started eating it while running away. Later I entered a bus with a fruit and yogurt bar and I just picked up a spoon and started eating. An attendant asked

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[bramblekite]

sounds challenging, but healthy :)

If you like vinaigrette, you can do up your own salad dressings pretty easily. I've made asian peanut dressing and green goddess, too. It's fun.

I gave up sugar for something like a year and a half. You get pretty sensitive to it and anything sweeter than plain fruit is just too much. Restaurant food & frozen dinners become really un tasty. even 'healthy choice' and stuff like that. They sweeten everything, even savory stuff.

[maevemacaraab]

Yeah, I'm noticing that...I had berries and cream today and it was like the sweetest thing I've ever tasted!

[sara_super_id]

My husband and I are cutting out salt. We have been making most of our own food. Now when we go out the salty food stings my lips and all I can taste is salt, not the food!

I suspect the feeling with sugar is the same way.

However, you might want to give it more than a month to see weight loss. A healthy amount of weight to lose a week is between half a pound to two pounds, so in a month you might only lose a few pounds and it might not be noticible if you have any water weight on. I suggest three months to really see if a new nutrition plan is working.

[maevemacaraab]

Nice, thank you. I'm already starting to see results and I feel really good so I think this might be a doable diet plan for me for a while.

Congrats on cutting down on the salt!

[xochitl]

I've been doing the low sugar thing too. I'm also trying to avoid things like aspartame and I actually found a soda sweetened with Stevia so I was ecstatic-- I don't drink coffee (and have cut out caffeine as well-- THAT sucked for about a week, epic headaches and tiredness) but there is something I love about my morning soda. Everything has fucking sugar in it, it's true. I've been avoiding a lot of processed grains and stuff, and the other day I was in Walmart and realized FOUR WHOLE AISLES were nothing but fucking carb and sugar loaded snacks.

[maevemacaraab]

Yeah, No kidding! I feel like I'm retraining my taste buds and the headaches have gone for the most part.

What's the soda?