[Pure Bliss] 1/16/2013 10:29:00 AM

[Lauren]

Happy Wednesday!  Today is the day I update you about my quest to break my sugar addiction.  If you haven't read my first post about this, feel free to catch up here.  I gave myself the monthly challenge of going three days with NO sugar.  I had some worries about what I would eat, and put in my coffee.  I intended to write down everything I ate to share with you, but I didn't...oops.

Anyways here's an overview:

Day 1:

I had decided I was going to put coconut milk in my coffee.  That way it was sweetened, but only from naturally occurring sugars. Unfortunately, I had assumed there was coconut milk in the house, and there was not. Warm almond milk tastes like trees to me, and I've been straying away cows milk, so I was like "I'm just gonna try this black....this isn't so bad."  I have been drinking my coffee black ever since.  My only regret is that for years I have been drinking my coffee like Lesley Knope, when I could have just been drinking it black.

Anyways, I know I ate some scrambled eggs with veggies and almond milk for breakfast, and probably something Danielle made for lunch, I have no idea what I had for dinner.  I remember eating lunch and thinking to myself "I am doing good, no sugar and no withdrawal symptoms," then I woke up from a four hour nap at 6:00 pm.  So, I am thinkin there were some symptoms.

Oh yea, I started the day with a green juice, too!

Day 2:

This day had a bit of a fail to it.  I started off by making southwest scrambled eggs for Ria and I, and ate them with salsa.  This was a pretty fabulous breakfast.  After I finished it all, I found out the salsa I used had added sugar!  Serves me right for not reading ingredients!  I didn't get discouraged though.  I ate some delicious quinoa and kale salad the Dani made for lunch.  More doom came around dinner time.  My mother made this delicious pasta, cabbage, and bacon stuff.  It smelled so good, you can't just turn something like that down.  While it didn't have sugar, I also cut wheat out of this challenge, something to do with the glycemic index (blah blah blah.) So I was faced with a choice...to eat noodles or not to eat noodles.  I at noodles, and they were SOO good.


Day 3:

I honestly remember nothing about day 3, but I do know that I didn't have any fails like on day 2.

So, while it wasn't successfully a strictly no sugar three days, I reduced my cravings immensely.  I've allowed myself sugar here and there, but my sugar cravings can usually be satiated with a banana or carrots (green smoothies do it best though! yum yum)  Something else interesting about all of this...I lost no weight, and that's fine because the goal was to get healthy not lose weight, but I DO feel a lot skinnier.  I am girl that has some chubby cheeks, and they seriously have been looking smaller over the past couple weeks.  Also, my stomach seems to be a tidbit flatter too.  Did my sugar consumption have  my cheeks and stomach bloated?

So, I'd like to hear from you now?  Did you give yourself a health challenge for the month?  What was it, and where do you stand with it now that we are half way through January?

Have a lovely week!

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Posted By Lauren to Pure Bliss at 1/16/2013 10:29:00 AM