52 Small Changes - Week 28

[NightWanderer]

Week 28 - Beware the Beverage

Reduce your overall sugar consumption by eliminating sweetened beverages from your diet.

If giving up sweetened beverages seems painful, realize it will get easier after the first few days. The more we feed our addiction to sugar, the more we crave it. When you break the cycle, however, your body begins to crave sugar less; and in a few weeks, you won't miss it so much.

It especially mentions eliminating soft drinks, energy drinks, fruit juice and putting sugar in your tea/coffee

Last week's challenge

[margaritasbythesea]

Nightwanderer - I wasn't being sarcastic I promise! I just found the last thread.

Thanks for this one. Lchf takes care of Thi too. At the moment, a high sugar drink for me is a tea with milk in.

Still not really shifting the pounds dramatically btw but too busy to try anything else now I am into all the rules.

[margaritasbythesea]

this not Thi

[8FencingWire]

Fab, thank you!

[NightWanderer]

That's alright. I didn't think that at all. I don't drink a lot of sugar, just the odd soda or odd cup of juice. I do eat too much sugar though. I come from a family of sugar addicts who are also a family of diabetics. It worries me.

[DrDiva]

Oh I like this one too. I am gradually moving over to water - I am at about 2l water and 1 of squash now. I hate sweetener anyway, I lost the taste of it in pregnancy and never regained it!

[margaritasbythesea]

I do feel better for not eating sugar in that I get hungry much less often and have very few cravings. I didn't lc for that reason but I do now believe there is something addictive there.

I also notice that I used to get a very sore stomach after drinking any alcohol and I don't any more. I think this might be due to sugar overload too. Not that healthy though I don't drink much.

[NightWanderer]

Drinking lots of water is definitely helping. I don't eat a lot of processed food so I think that helps too. Things like ready made pasta sauces have a lot of sugar. I rarely drink these days either.

[BewitchedBotheredandBewildered]

I never drink fizzy pop or squash.

There will be sugar in the dry wine that I drink but I won't be giving that up!

[quirkychick]

Bewitched. I'm sure that doesn't count...

Yy, lc means that sugary drinks are just a no. NightWanderer Dp's family are similar, such sweet teeth (?).

[Stellar67]

Oh now I like this one. I struggle with sugary drinks. I have been working on it but will throw myself in for the next seven days and see how it goes.
Agree, water intake has saved me a bit with this one already.

Thank you.

[NightWanderer]

I've added the next challenge here

[BewitchedBotheredandBewildered]

Oooh, ominous, you don't say you like it, eek!

Here goes...

[NightWanderer]

It's not so bad

It's true though that you just don't know what to expect, from taking a multivitamin every day to finding a purpose to your life.