Giving up Suga, no I mean SUGAR!

I’ve decided I’m giving up Suga.  No, I mean Suga. No, I mean sugar.  Can’t give up Suga – not happening, that’s one addiction I’m taking with me forever.

Anyway – it’s going to be a difficult for a number of reasons, the main one being I’m still working my through the stacks of chocolates and biscuits and sweet things amassed for Christmas.  However, in order to shift the next couple of pounds – as I’m determined to get to my next weight goal at some point in the next few weeks (oh and of course there’s that recent weight gain after Christmas (what the was that all about)).   I’m not going cold turkey, that would be too much!!  And I’m not giving up all the sugar – I would like to, for a while at least give up all the refined sugars.  You know – chocolates, biscuits, cakes, and anything pre-produced that contains masses of unnecessary sugar.  
 

I was thinking about it the other day, and whilst I’m maintaing my good-ish weight at the moment and not going back to the chubster of 2019 – I have a feeling that by giving up even for a few weeks some of the naughtiest elements of my diet, I may drop that weight a lot faster.  There’s also the hope that once I cut out sugar from my diet, I may not want to go back to it; that I will find it all to sweet and simply stay away from it.  Well, we can hope, can’t we?!

My tea and coffee – I’ve been drinking without sugar for years (having reduced it from 6 teaspoons in coffee and 4 in tea.  Yuck, oh the very though of that much sugar in my drinks now, just makes me feel queasy. How on earth did I tolerate it?) And because I have reduced sugar in my diet overall over the last few years, particularly over the last couple of years by eating less chocolate (except for Christmas), I do find that there’s a difference in how I feel between eating 5 pieces of Celebrations and 6.  It just gets too much – too sweet and then I feel a bit nauseous – I’ll still have it though!! Idiot!  I wish that would be the case with any sugar, and that I’d remember before eating it, how easy it makes me feel when I eat too much of it.

My friend’s daughter recently gave up sugar – she decided she was getting too tight for her clothes, and simply cut it out.  I don’t know how she did it, but she did.  So it’s not impossible.  I did try to give up sugar some years ago. Last time I tried giving up sugar and chocolate, I did not last very long.  After about a week I was going stir crazy and ended up going to a supermarket in a middle of the night just to buy some chocolates.  Thinking about it now, I’m wondering whether I was suffering from withdrawal symptoms at the time, and had I worked through it, I’d have been alright. Clearly I wasn’t as smart back then as I am now. LOL.

Anyway, I will give it another try.  I’ve already made a decision to cut out cheese once again.  Not forever, but like in 2020, during the tightest control of my food and exercise I dropped cheese for a couple of weeks as I have such a terrible tendency to eat too much of it (in fact I have a tendency of eating too much of everything, oops). That action alone very quickly made a difference in my weight goals.  So, once I’ve finished off all the boxes of Lindt and Ferrero Roche still dotted around the kitchen – no more chocolates, first for few days, then hopefully couple of weeks, lets see what happens.  Will need to find alternative snacks.  

20.01.2022 update

Still chocolates dotted about.  Pleased to report however, that I’m getting better at my shopping habits. It is definitely a physical activity, having to actively think and stop yourself from going to the snack sections at the supermarket.  I’m getting there.  Only failed once on the chocolate front.  Bought a bar the other day, but it’s one that goes into a store cabinet for emergencies.  Hmm, maybe I should give it to the family instead LOL.