How Sez Sees It

This not having added sugar lark is getting easier by the day. Once you get into it and find out what you can actually eat it is quite good fun and I am feeling the benefits already. All this week I have been eating wholegrain rice cakes with low fat cheese spread and lettuce for lunch and fruit or shredded wheat for breakfast. Dinner has mostly consisted of salads or chicken and vegetables. By only having natural sugars (and only small amounts at that) I have been feeling more energised and my head is clearing up. I have felt fuzzy before when I have a sugar crash. I also find that I don't tend to crash and I am not so hungry and looking to snack to top up my sugar level. I am drinking more water (though that is not uncommon for me, it is my drink of choice anyway and it might be down to the hot weather). I am also changing other things I drink such as coffee. I have been having my coffee black and no sugar and it tastes really good that way. I don't know about how much ...

I am attempting to live without too much sugar. There are sugars that are naturally occurring in fruit and as fruit has fibre you can't really cut this out. I also cannot drink tea without sugar as it is gross otherwise. Then there is the question of what to do with birthdays. So far I am failing spectacularly. Monday 29 June:  start of the no or low sugar week. Did well. Ate some wheatabix and had a salad. Not too shabby. No biscuits either. Tuesday 30 June:  the meeting I was in had biscuits and I ate some. Otherwise I was living off fruit and salad type things. Wednesday 1 July:  another good day really, except it was the hottest day of the year so far and my manager bought us all ice-cream. Thursday 2 July:  a good day finally. I was very well behaved today and only ate my breakfast and lunch without adding sugar. Even avoided biscuits in the evening. Friday 3 July:  good in the sense that I didn't really add sugar until the evening...when Dave g...