Tomorrow I quit sugar

[OuchBollocks]

I am OuchBollocks and I am a sugar addict. Not for me one square a day or a frozen curly wurly to take the edge off, no. I have it, I eat it, I want it more.

Last year I quit sugar for New Year, and stayed off minus one or two teeny slips until I got pregnant with DS, then being off alcohol and caffeine combined with the summer heat made the lure of a cold Fanta too hard to resist. Then I broke my leg and was bed bound and in pain and people brought chocolate to the hospital, and the meals all came with dessert, and then I had DS and more chocolate, then Easter and more chocolate, and although I've managed to drop a dress size so far with the 5:2 diet I need to jack in the white stuff. I am going to Ibiza in September '18 and I want to feel confident.

God help me,it's going to be hard. The rules are:
No sweet drinks, including artificial sweeteners
No chocolate, sweets, icecream, cake, sorbets, pastries, jam, marmalade etc etc
No crisps
Read labels of sauces carefully to check sugar levels.

I will update this thread for my own personal records. I am going to kiss sugar goodbye with the slice of cheesecake that is waiting for me after dinner. Goodbye sugar, it's been fun :(

B: Greek yoghurt, berocca
L: mussels to start and then half a chicken with garlic butter and a green salad.
D: nothing as full from lunch but I do have a massive sugar craving which am fighting hard!

Oh no- I got all excited that we'd attracted a newbie but just a spammer. Ah well . That lunch sounds delicious Totty. Hope you managed to ignore the cravings.

B: Protein shake. Really looking forward to finishing this bag so I can buy a different one.
L: 2 hard boiled eggs, carrot, cucumber, pepper and celery sticks with humous, blackberries and a kiwi
D: chickpea, spinach and broccoli curry- vegan recipe. It was delicious.

I have a dinner tonight so I accept that I will eat dessert, but at least it will be a delicious one and not just mindless hoovering of Oreos.

Ha - so did I! I shall carry on posting as it makes me look at what I am eating. Hopefully we’ll have some pre xmas joiners!

Good luck with dinner. I actually think getting to a place where you can have dessert but not then spiral to an entire pack of biscuits is a good thing!

B: Greek yog
L: leek soup
S: too much Brie
D: meatballs

B: Protein shake (again)
L: Rest of the vegetable and chickpea curry
D: 4 course French tasting menu with paired wines. The dessert was an apple poached in mulled wine with a frangipan mousse and pistachio ice-cream and then crumble bits. It was really delicious but not a massive portion, so I just really enjoyed it.

Your dessert sounds amazing. Am drooling!

B: nothing
L: scrambled egg, ham, Brie
D: haddock and pesto, sprouts, cauliflower

Have cold and feel achy. Need to find something that is not honey and lemon or sugar based to soothe throat

I find lemon tea on it's own not too bad, or with a bit of fresh ginger in it. Otherwise, squeeze a blood orange into it. Yum!

Yesterdays scores on the doors

B: Soy Latte
L: 2 hard boiled eggs with crudities (pepper, cucumber, carrot, celery), hummous pineapple and a kiwi.
S: Protein shake
D: Tomato, mozzerella and avocado salad

Wow, I didn't realise this thread was still limping on! I have managed to stay sugar free, more or less, since starting it. I did have a teeny slice of cake at my son's christening, but it didn't open the floodgates like it did Before. Nice to see other people are still at it.

I have been too tired to eat this morning. Got DD off to nursery then napped with the baby. For lunch I will have a bacon sarnie then a bit of ff Greek yoghurt, and DH is treating me to takeaway for dinner. Veg dumplings and chicken pho. Yum.

hi ouch. Glad it’s going well for you. Yeah, I’ve decided to go down with the ship! Trying to get to 1000 posts by new year so I can start a new thread and attract the new year resolution bids .

B: protein shake
L: usual boiled eggs and crudités/ fruit
D: baked salmon, salad, glass wine

I'll join you! Let's push this ship forward

Hurrah!

B: Greek yog
L: scrambled egg, ham, Brie
D: chicken tikka masala OR roast chicken with veg. Undecided.

Cold is making me want sugar.

I hear you there totty, I was out yesterday and cold, and suddenly the idea of a hot chocolate was almost irresistible. But I held strong. Go for the spice.

Have bought some peppermint and liquorice tea and some 3 cinnamon tea both of which are quite sweet to fool myself!

I'm going to go back onto green tea. I reckon I do 100+ calories a day on milk in black tea.

So do I but it’s totes worth it. I love tea.

B: protein shake
L: eggs and veg and fruit again. Bored of it but it’s low cal and filling
S: soy latte
D: Tuna and salmon with sushi rice, courgetti and Korean fire sauce. Glass of wine.

B: protein shake
S: latte
L: salmon tikka, crudités
D: went out for Italian. Shared- Burrata, calamari, stuffed zucchini flowers, pizza. Way too much prosecco. No regrets .

The best I can say about Sunday was that it was sugar free

B: cup of tea and 2 paracetamol
L: shared plate of nachos with 2 friends, iced tea.
D: chicken tostada salad (basically mexican chicken salad served in a taco bowl.

Went to bed at 8pm

B: sausage, bacon , egg and mushrooms
L: scallops with salad and bacon
D: roast chicken and veg

Monday

B: protein shake- I can see the bottom of the bag- yay!!
L: 2 babybel, veg sticks and hummus, pineapple
D: broccoli, chickpea and spinach curry with rice, glass of wine.

Today

B: protein shake
S: soy latte
L: salmon tikka and salad
D: mozzarella and avocado salad, glass wine

B: Greek yog, garlic sausage, cheese
L: cheeseburger from mcd’s 🙄
D: sausage casserole with veg

Stinking cold so lemsip’d up. Appear to be plenty of sugar in them!

B. Sausage sandwich
L. Cheese ham and pickle sandwich
D. Chips and beans
I'll probably have some crisps in a bit too. Today has not been a model of healthy eating. The DC are exhausting me and tbh I was sorely tempted to neck a can of coke. But I didn't.

Half term definitely danger zone for me. Hence McDonald’s

My DC are 3 years and 7 months. I really can't blame half term! I did manage to avoid the millionaire shortbread at a friend's house today though.

Oh god I found that time even worse. Tired = sugar for me. Like constant half term