Are you a sugar addict? I am. In 2005 I vowed to quit sweets and have been blogging about it ever since. This website contains product reviews, personal journal entries, the weekly Sugar Challenge, and an ebook for people who want to Stop Being Sweet.

Not Eating Sugar on the Road

August 31, 2010

I’m writing this post from Longview, Washington after having bicycled 75 miles on the BP protest ride. Tonight I stopped at a local restaurant and it wasn’t much better than the last place.

The salad was better but only by a bit. The veggie burger was nicer (everything else on the menu was meat). However, I don’t think I’ll ever choose to replace french fries with potato salad again.

The small health food cafe was closed but it will be the place to eat at in the morning.

Only one more day and then it’s back to my own food in my own home!

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Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 30, 2010

August 30, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: Spy on someone and track how much sugar they eat. Don’t tell them.

Watch your kids, your spouse, your boss, your employee, your partner, your enemy, your mother, your father, you get it.

Notice how much junk food they eat. Do they eat a lot? Do you eat like them? Are you influenced by their diet? Are they influenced by yours?

That’s it. Keep your eye on someone close to you and see what you notice.

Good luck!

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Eating Sugar on the Road

August 28, 2010

It’s hard to stay on the wagon when you’re wagon goes off your usual trail.

I’m on my way home after a week-long college residency. While away, students eat in the cafeteria located on campus. The food isn’t terrible, but eating three square meals a day in that place gets difficult, especially for someone who’s off sugar.

The dessert table is located right by the doorway of the serving area so everyone has to pass it on the way to the dining hall. I always noticed when they had chocolate snacks such as ice cream or brownies.

Dessert, eat all you want.

While it’s easy for me to avoid dessert, and thus the sugars in the desserts, what’s not easy is avoiding added sweeteners in the actual meal. Based on how I felt, and judging from the labels on the foods for sale in the restaurant supply store near my home, there’s most likely added sugar in everything the cafeteria served.

Bread of course has sugar (I still eat dinner rolls). Soups often have added sugars as lots of restaurant soups are purchased pre-made. Salad dressing (I opt for oil and vinegar if there’s any question), yogurt, granola, cereal, waffles, pancakes, soy milk and any number of flavored cooking sauces contain corn syrup and/or added sugars of various kinds.

But that’s all behind me now. This past week was my last full residency and so I’ll never have to spend a week eating that food again. Yeah!

Now I’m on my ride home. If you don’t know, I’m bicycling from Port Townsend, Washington to Portland, Oregon. This means I’m still at the mercy of restaurant food for two more days.

Last night I stopped in a local restaurant and got a Garden Burger with a side salad. The salad was weak. The waitress handed me a tray of salad dressings all of which contained sugar.

Salad?

The Garden Burger was terrible! The french fries were so salty I used Ketchup on them. That’s sugar or corn syrup in my system. The fries are basically poison. I was hungry though and so I ate everything. The meal was so salty it made me thirsty for the rest of the night.

All gone.

No more!

Today I ate fruit and vegetables. I also eat Subway because they sell the Veggie Delight sandwich, which is just assorted vegetables. The ingredients are always pretty fresh, the bread does not cause me any trouble and I never feel bad after eating one of those sandwiches.

At this point I can’t wait to get home and eat the foods that I know and love. It’s just a matter of days now.

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Loud Sugar Video

August 27, 2010

Turn your speaker volume down!

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Crashed Today

August 23, 2010

I’m away at school for the week and students have three square meals per day provided by the local eatery. The food has something in it that kicks my butt. Also, not being able to eat for hours at a time and then dropping a big breakfast, lunch, or dinner is not my style. I’m an eat-a-little-all-day kind of guy and might be hypoglycemic.

For the first time in a long time, I crashed and napped for two hours this afternoon. It’s not hard to tell when food is effecting me after having been sugar-free for so long. I felt irritable, groggy, distant and got a headache in the back of my head. That was before I ate. After eating I couldn’t focus and grew tired and lay down. Two hours later I was up and it was time for dinner.

I want to get off the roller coaster. I’m going to try eating nothing but whole foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That means only fruit and veggies that haven’t been cooked in whatever it is they use.

Sorry eatery chef, I know you’re just doing your job. But it’s killing me!

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