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.

3 Ways to Avoid Cake in the Community Room

August 23, 2010

Cake

I’m away at a college residency. The program director turned 40 and they gave her a cake. It was a big chocolate production with icing and chocolate covered strawberries around the outside. Now there’s a bunch of left over pieces sitting out in the community room waiting to be eaten.

The cake looked really good when it was served. People who had some said it is really rich, which is just how I like my chocolate cake! Still, it’s easy to resist. Why?

You’re Sick of the Roller Coaster

When you first go off sugar for a while you’ll find that you have good and bad times. That is, you’ll last for months without sugar only to fall off the wagon and start eating sweets again. Do that enough times and you’ll start to associate a little taste of sugar with falling out of control in a not fun way.

Exercise Your No Thank You Muscle

If you’ve just started to avoid sugar, expect that it’s not easy. In the Stop Being Sweet eBook I explain that saying no (with your words or actions) is like exercising a muscle—you have to build it up by repetitively using it. The only way to get good at avoiding sweets it to keep avoiding them. My “NO” muscle is strong enough to deal with most any typical situation where sweets tempt me.

Don’t Be Around It

If you are still having trouble with the stuff, stay away from the stuff. Sugar is tempting. If it’s not within your reach it’s easier to avoid eating it. I’m in the same room as the cake but not at the same table!

It’s Not the End of the World

If you make a mistake then just move on. You don’t stop talking just because you mispronounce a word. Keep going, little by little. eventually a little becomes a lot and one slip up doesn’t ruin your unsweet lifestyle. (See yesterday’s post.)

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Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 23, 2010

August 23, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: drink only water.

glass-of-water

That’s it. No coffee. No tea. No soda. No milk. No fruit juice. No vitamin water. Nothing but pure water.

Water. That’s it.

From now until the next sugar challenge which starts next Monday, August 30th.

One week with nothing but water. You’ll be surprised at the revelations you will have if you follow this challenge.

Good luck!

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Carob Covered Almonds: Sweet?

August 22, 2010

I’m away at school for a week long residency. While here, I like to go to the food co-op and purchase some unsweetened carob covered almonds. Yesterday I did just that.

When I got back to my room, I began to eat a few. They were even sweeter than I remembered so I ate a few more. And then I ate some more. Before I knew it, the whole bag was gone. Had being away from carob covered almonds for so long made them taste sweeter?

Today I was back at the co-op and noticed that the carob almonds are in the bin directly next to the grain sweetened almonds. I must have gotten the wrong ones. No wonder I was peeing all night long. Today I’ll eat the carob covered almonds and see how they make me feel.

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Sugar Video

August 20, 2010

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Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 16, 2010

August 16, 2010

This week’s challenge: every time you eat sweets, take a walk equal to the amount of grams of sugar you consumed.

label If you ate one serving size of cookies, look at the package and see how many grams of sugar those few cookies contain. Chances are they contain about 8 to 12 grams of sugar. That would mean an 8 - 12 minute walk.

If you ate the whole box of cookies, you have to multiply the serving size times the amount of servings in each package. This will give the amount of sugar in grams that you ate and the appropriate amount of minutes to walk.

For example, the label to the left shows that there are 18 grams of sugar per serving. It says that there are 15 servings per container. If you ate the whole box, then you must multiply 18 (grams of sugar) x 15 (servings). The total amount of sugars would be 270 grams of sugar. That’s a lot of sugar! And that’s how long of a walk you’d do in exchange for eating that much sugar during this week’s challenge.

Hopefully you’ll be inspired to eat less grams of sugar. Hopefully you’ll keep your word to yourself if you decide to accept this week’s challenge.

Good luck!

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