Sugar Shock

So the one thing in my 30 day plan that I have been really, really good about (except for blogging every day, of course) is not eating any sugar. I didn’t think of myself as having a serious sweet tooth before this little experiment. I don’t drink soda or any other sweetened drinks, I stopped putting sugar in my coffee about three years ago, and I never buy candy unless it is for Halloween or a birthday party.

What I did realize during these thirty days is that I often have a cookie or two or three or four after lunch, or a little Nutella, or some leftover piece of Halloween candy. Not being allowed to have it made me realize how often I reach for some little sweet. It was also pretty easy to give up. Again, I seem to be a lot better at not doing something than doing something. I need to figure out how to use that to my advantage. Anyway, I don’t know if all this sugarlessness has led to any weight loss, since the other thing I have been good about is not weighing myself.

My daughter’s birthday party was today and I made her a homemade cake with homemade cream cheese/buttercream frosting (which she thought was gross, but was really good) and a whole bunch of cupcakes for the kids to decorate. After all the decorating and singing and candle blowing and wish making I ate a whole piece of cake. I have felt really disgusting ever since. My heart was racing for a while and now my stomach is all flippy and I feel kind of spacy and headachy. After one piece of cake. Yuck.

This will probably seal the deal on giving up sugar almost completely. I know it is unrealistic to think I will give it up all together, but even a little seems to do some pretty unpleasant things to me. I also think it makes me moody and grumpy. No one needs that. This proves that at least one piece of my plan to get rid of some of my bad habits over these thirty days has been an absolute success. Yay!