I Ate Bagels!

January 20, 2007

Wow. This is really air headed of me, but I never thought of bagels as containing refined sugar until Gabriel from Long Island mentioned it on this site!

When I first quit, I avoided things like cookies, cakes, and candy and replaced them with complex carbohydrates like pasta, fruit, and bagels. It helped me to get off the refined sugars and lower my cravings. After several months into it, I found myself eating too much bread and cut it down. With the super sweets out of my life, it was easier to manage my diet because I wasn’t so ravenously hungry.

I have a friend who hasn’t eaten chocolate in over ten years. She eats other sweets, just not chocolate. When I asked her why she said, “Because it would be all I eat.” That’s what works for her.

I still eat bagels–not all the time–but I do. I also eat Ketchup. And I eat Honey. For me it was a matter of cutting out what I call “trigger foods.” My trigger foods were chocolate chip cookies, Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked ice cream, and Flipz chocolate covered pretzels. I’d eat that stuff ritualistically.

This blog has been read by many types of people. Initially I was writing for those who were just like me—people who ate sugar compulsively. But over time I have heard from people who don’t (want to) eat sugar due to all kinds of health considerations.

Remember, there is no one solution. You can stop being sweet and still have a mint after dinner once in a while. It all really depends on you.

All in all I hope to inspire you to become your own health guru. Learn how to cook healthy meals. Understand how YOUR body works. Discover what you can and can’t eat. Experiment.

Be yourself and be healthy!

PS - The Sugar Challenge is just that, so try to be as strict as possible for the purpose of self discovery!

Gabriel
Jan 21, 2007

David, I think we’re exactly on the same boat. I used to eat sugar compulsively—especially candy!—but I just decided that I wasn’t going to do that anymore. Although I was completely clean from processed sugar for about 5 months, I now have my occasional mint or anything with some sugar… but to be honest after those 5 months, stuff loaded with sugar grosses me out. I feel like I don’t have to try to not eat sugary stuff, it now comes natural to me. I would have cake or candy a few times a year, just not daily or even weekly. Why? I don’t NEED this stuff.

I’m a bagel lover myself, so I can imagine it was dissapointing for you to find out they had sugar in them, it sure was for me. Rock on with the site man!

susan
Jan 22, 2007

David, Thank you for creating this site. When I read through your blog I knew I could do it again. See, like you I’ve “quit sugar” many times, only to go back, and back, and back. I started to think I just couldn’t do it again. But now I know I can. It’s been five days!

David
Jan 22, 2007

Yeah! Quitting sugar is personal health—nobody will do it for us!

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