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.

Sugar Challenge: June 2007

June 04, 2007

Try this:

For the rest of June only eat sweets on Sunday.

During the other days of the week—when you get super hungry—eat replacement foods.

Be prepared for extreme hunger! Eat complex carbs like orange juice, healthy (not white) breads, and lots of fruits and veggies.

Eat until you are satisfied. You might find yourself eating a little too much, but know it won’t last forever. When you want sweets, tell yourself it’s just a matter of days.

Try that for June.

It’ll show you a whole lot about yourself and let you see if you really want to stop being sweet for real.

Posted in Weekly Sugar Challenge on June 04, 2007

Sugar Challenge: May 2007

May 24, 2007

Try this:

For the rest of June only eat sweets on Sunday.

During the other days of the week—when you get super hungry—eat replacement foods.

Be prepared for extreme hunger! Eat complex carbs like orange juice, healthy (not white) breads, and lots of fruits and veggies.

Eat until you are satisfied. You might find yourself eating a little too much, but know it won’t last forever. When you want sweets, tell yourself it’s just a matter of days.

Try that for June.

It’ll show you a whole lot about yourself and let you see if you really want to stop being sweet for real.

Posted in Weekly Sugar Challenge on May 24, 2007

Quitting Sugar All Over Again

May 24, 2007

No too long ago I performed an experiment. It started with sugar free Oreo Cookies. I hadn’t eaten chocolate in a long time and sampled the new product. Well, sugar free Oreos are fine if you want to feel miserable, so I moved on and returned back to snacking on natural treats. Until recently.

While in the Wild Oats health food store, I spotted some chocolate chip cookies that had no added sugars (other than what was naturally in there) and the sugar content was low. I purchased one and ate it. I meant to write about it. You know, I was experimenting with eating some chocolate and figured it would make for something interesting to say on my quiet blog.

The cookie had no ill effects. I felt fine. It tasted fine. It was sweet, but not too sweet. The following week I was at the store and again got a cookie, well actually I got two. It wasn’t everyday that I got near the store and so I figured two would be fine. And they were just fine. I got a little used to the idea of eating chocolate.

So…

While in a health food store near my house I noticed grain sweetened chocolate chips. No added sugar! Riding high (possibly literally) on the low sugar cookies, I opted to try the grain sweetened chocolate morsels. Low and behold, they’re not half bad. They were so good, in fact, that I went back the next day and got some more. The second bag was as good as the first and so I got another. Maybe even another.

That’s when I tried the carob chips. They taste just like sweet chocolate. Well, they are sweet. Not too sweet, mind you, but sweet. But the grain sweetened were enough sweet for me. Until I went to Whole Foods.

(Warning: avoid the bulk food aisle!)

There in the bulk food aisle at Whole Foods was my dream-come-true. Grain sweetened chocolate covered pretzels! I just had to try them. And let me tell you, they are delicious! They have 4 grams of sugar per 8 pretzels. That means I could eat 24 pretzels and only be consuming 16 grams of sugar. That’s not bad. And it wasn’t bad. I felt fine after eating 24 of them. So fine, in fact, that I went and got 24 more the next day. I’m sure you can see where this is going.

Two nights ago I went into Whole Foods and filled a paper bag with pretzels. I lost count as I tong-shoveled them into my bag like a construction crew. 24, 34? I am not sure. Then I wrote 5438 on the bag, by rote. When I got to the cashier she looked at the bag and said, “Chocolate covered pretzels!” How did she know?

When it came time for me to go to bed that night I just couldn’t sleep. I lay awake until after 1:30 am worrying. I worried about my life. I worried about my income. I worried about my health. I worried about my work. What was I doing with my life? What have I done with my life? Things like that ran through my head while I promised myself that I’d quit sugar all over again. No more chocolate covered pretzels. I finally drifted off. In the morning I woke up feeling sluggish and half-dead. I promised to quit all over again.

Last night, after a day of eating well, I couldn’t sleep. I lay awake until 2:30 am worrying. I worried about my life. I worried about my income. I worried about my health. I worried about my work. What was I doing with my life? What have I done with my life? Then it hit me. Maybe it’s not the sugar. Finally I drifted off.

So, as I write this, I am high on about 30 Chocolate Covered Pretzels. I figured I should really see if it’s the pretzels. But as soon as I ate them I could feel a difference in my body. And you know, no matter if I sleep tonight or not, I’m quitting all over again.

Won’t you join me?

Posted in My Personal Journal on May 24, 2007 : Comments (10)

Spam Alert!

May 07, 2007

There’s a strange robot-program sending spam which looks like it’s coming from my website. As far as I can tell it’s originating in Germany. If you are receiving strange email from this domain please know it’s not actually coming from me!

Posted in Tips, Tricks, Info & News on May 07, 2007