I Crashed the Other Day

Woke up early and ate a breakfast of bread, cheese, watermelon, and fruit. Rode my bike to work and taught a Tai Chi class during which my legs felt weak and shaky. I rode home tired.

A nap began to seem more and more enticing. I felt as if I’d eaten seven bags of M&Ms and fell into a deep sleep. A few hours later I woke up slowly. This hasn’t happened in a long time. It made me really glad I’m off sugar. It’s my ninth month!

Lately I’ve been dreaming about eating sweets. In one dream I ate a bunch of generic cream sandwich cookies before “realizing” what I was doing.

In another dream I made the choice to eat sweets and was rummaging through a kitchen cabinet (not mine) to find candy and Hostess snacks. When I “realized” what that I was eating sugar I told myself things were just too stressful to not do it. Then this website came to mind and the guit hit me because people would know.

Luckily it was just a dream.

Sugar Blogging

Another one bites the good stuff!

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It’s a movement!

Another Unsweet Blogger

Quitting sugar and blogging about it has taken off!

Another Person Stops Being Sweet!

Go Caroline!

Step By Step

I’m starting to create a program that people can follow to eliminate sugar from their diet. One thing I want to tell everyone is that it’s rare that someone completely omits sugar from their lives forever.

I have a friend who has not eaten chocolate in TEN YEARS! She said if she eats it then that’s all she eats. She is rare and she still eats other sweet things. She found chocolate to be her only trigger food and has therefore eliminated it and that works FOR HER.

Completely quitting sugar is darn near impossible, and also very tough. That’s why I have quit for a year. I will eat sweets again, but only as part of my annual sugar binge ritual, and then I’m off for another year. So far it works for me.

Everyone needs to develop their own parameters. There is no one solution for everyone. If you have any suggestions about things that can help you (recipes, things to say, alternative food suggestions, etc.) please let me know.

Good luck and check back.

A New Sugar Blog

Denny from Hobart, Tasmania has started a blog about quitting sugar. It’s called Sweet Survival.

What Is and What Isn’t

FOR ME, eating sweets means eating junk food and foods containing refined sugars. FOR ME, not being sweet means avoiding these types of food for a year. This works FOR ME.

I can eat apples and feel healthy. They don’t make me crash or binge. I will continue to eat fruit. I will continue to eat certain foods that others will say turns directly into sugar, such as a bagel with cream cheese. This works FOR ME.

However, if I were to eat a chocolate chip cookie then it’s just a matter of time before that’s all I’m eating. Everyone is different.

If you are trying to control your sugar intake, you should see a doctor or trained specialist. I’m not a doctor or a nutritionist. This website is a place for you to become inspired by my story and then to go and create your own reality. If you feel you can deal with sugar on your own, then I encourage you to define your own parameters.

Some folks need to quit everything. Others can eat a cookie a month and not go wrong. There is no one solution for everyone.

What I describe in these posts is my experience and the solution that is working for me.

By all means, do what you NEED to do and discover what’s right for YOU!

Living the Simple Life, One Step at a Time

For me, not being sweet has become part of an overall simple and healthy lifestyle.

For instance, my bicycle is my car. My apartment building has a bike garage. Everything is within walking or biking distance and if not, there’s public transportation. The end result is that I bike at least 20 miles a week no matter if I’m in the mood or not. That means increased stamina, more sun and more fresh air. I ride a single speed which is both simple and more physically taxing. It also means a regular cardiovascular workout without paying for a cycling/spin class.

As a Tai Chi instructor I’m part of a community of people that work together to make our lives better by practicing something that makes us healthy. Soon I’ll begin practicing Yoga.

I am telling you this because I couldn’t do have done it eight months ago when I was eating lots of sugar. Eating healthier is one step in an overall approach to living a different kind of life. You have to change one step at a time.

What step could you take today?

No Sugar Momma

Check it out! People are quitting sugar and blogging about it! Yeah!

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