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 :(

Well done ouch. I remember those days well.

B: soy latte
L: chickpea and spinach curry
D: chickpea & spinach curry again ( DH out and I CBA to cook anything) and a big fruit platter- blackberries, raspberries, orange and pineapple.

B: nothing
L: tomato, mozzarella and avocado salad
D: chicken Kiev with salad

B. Veggie sausage sandwich
L. Jacket spud, tuna mayo, salad
D. Wholewheat wrap, spicy chicken thigh pieces, avocado, tomato and onion

I had lunch at a soft play place. There were cakes on the counter. I could seriously smell the sugar wafting off the cakes!

B: soy latte
L: 2 hard boiled eggs, veg crudités, hummus, pineapple, raspberries, blackberries
D: roast chicken salad, 2 glasses of wine

Next week’s challenge: Halloween candy and how to stop myself eating it.

Plan 1: don’t bother rationing it. Just let the dc scoff the lot in one go. If they vomit, treat it as aversion therapy

Plan 2: throw most of it away and hope they don’t notice. But then I feel bad about food waste and Western consumerist excess.

Telling them they can’t TorT is unfortunately not an option. It’s such a big thing here.

Where are you roughly cantsee? Could you sneak half of it away to a food bank and let them scoff the rest?

I’m in HK..I think the food bank would judge me to hell, especially as Asian people don’t really eat candy . I think I might just get DH to put it up super high where I can’t get it with my crutches.

Hi ladies, I'm still reading this regularly, but not posted as my menus haven't been fit to post!! I've had a massively hectic couple of months. My mum is still v poorly and needing a lot of looking after. So there's been a lot of rushing around, and I've missed a few meals and eaten some crap instead. After 9 months of being sugar free (mostly) I've fallen back into it. Strangely I've not put any weight on, and have gone down a belt hole! But I do need to rein in again and pull myself together again.

Hi honey . Sorry your Mum is not too good. Agree that searching out sugar free foods is rightly not your priority right now. Be kind to yourself.

Yesterday:

B: soy latte
L: bloody eggs, veg and fruit again.
D: 6 course tasting menu: 3 oysters, prawn ceviche, crab bisque, bit of food gras( guilt), monkfish in clam broth, poached pear. Too much wine but at least not too bad sugar-wise. The pear definitely needed more sugar

Yesterday:
L: fish pie. Resisted crumble.

Then was very full so didn’t have anything else.

Tasting menu sounds amazing!

Sorry about your mum honey, do take care of yourself.

cantsee that menu sounds delicious.

Yesterday I felt awful, all I had was a cup a soup. Today I've eaten toast and peanut butter (the one that is just peanuts) but doubt I'll eat much more.

Hello all. Am thinking of quitting sugar (and alcohol!) and just found this thread. Have you all lost weight by quitting sugar? I became a real sugar addict when I had to eat very low fat due to gallbladder issues, so sugar was my only treat. Since I had the gallbladder out I can eat fat again, but never cut back down on the sugar. Hence: weight gain!

Hi Eolian i’ve lost a stone in 4 weeks. I do have a lot to lose though but I was addicted to sugar.
I’ve cut down majorly on all carbs too

There's chocolate in the house.

I want it :(

Wow a stone in 4 weeks is amazing - well done! Right, I'm starting tomorrow!

Yay! I definitely recommend it. I have less brain fog, more energy too. I was eating vast quantities though!

B: sausage, egg, bacon, mushrooms

L: nothing

D: pitta bread, hummus, olives. Salami, mozzarella

Do you eat fruit? I'm assuming dried fruit is definitely off the menu! In which case I shall miss my morning muesli. Maybe I could have it without the raisins though... (I make my own).

I guess one thing that will make it easier is that I'm not having to battle a fizzy drinks habit. I already don't drink sweet drinks or juice and don't have sugar in tea or coffee. I'm going to give up the booze too though - not because I drink loads, but because it messes with my digestion and my sleep, even if I only have a couple of glasses. Should help with the weightloss too though!

Totty you eat next to nothing now, I don't know how you do it, I couldn't survive! It obviously works well for you though.

I've lost just under two stones, took about five months, but I've levelled off lately and fallen off the waggon a couple of months ago, and need to pick it up. I only lost a lb a week, but it was steady and constant, plus I lost two dress sizes and inches all over, particularly my waist and legs!

I followed the JERF theory, I just ate food, homemade food. Fruit is fine in its natural form, but not juiced or dried. I ate tons of fruit. I put fresh berries and grapes in muesli or granola now instead. If you're on Facebook have a look at the I Quit Sugar page. I didn't pay to join, but their questions and answers section gives a lot of tips.

I like 'JERF'! Today I've had:
1 slice wholemeal toast and marmite and an apple
Homemade celery and fennel soup with a slice of wholemeal and a bit of ham and salad.

Tonight will be chicken, new potatoes and veg.

I don't want to do low carb (been there, done that, found it unsustainable long-term) but I think I should cut down on bread a bit and go for smaller portions when I'm having rice, pasta etc.

Hi Eolian. I’ve lost a few kg despite being immobilised due to an operation but for me that was less important than getting on a more even keel with food and not having such bad cravings. Reducing sugar has been revolutionary in that regard.

B: soy latte
L: green papaya and soft shelled crab salad, latte
D: baked salmon with a mixed salad.

Weekend was a bit crazy. Out Saturday night. No dessert but had sangria. Yesterday was my friend’s Dd’s First birthday so champagne and cake.

I've combined quitting sugar with a relaxed approach to 5:2 and I've been losing an average of 1.5lbs a week since i started this thread. I'm 23lbs down in total so far and it has been very very easy.

Can I join?

I've tried low carb and Harcombe but found them a bit too restricted so I thought I'd try just cutting out sugar and bread, hoping that I'll still lose weight.

Course you can chillaxing. It's not the fastest moving thread but a few of us are still here, taking different approaches to reducing sugar

Right, so yesterday was my Waterloo because the H word. Dh took the DC T&T and they came back with ridiculous amounts of candy which I will encourage them to eat over the next few days to get rid of it. I stayed at home and dished out our candy (we have a very organised system in our apartment block where T&T is strictly 5:30 to 7:30 and you have to sign up. The kids are only allowed to go to those houses).

On the plus side, I got rid of all our candy bar 3 mini bags of gummy bears. On the downside I ate those 3 packs of gummy bears plus 2 jelly burgers and 2 mini chocolate bars that MIL sent over from the UK in a giant multipack (DH can eat that).

So, not great, but could have been worse. Rest of the day was good.

• B: Soy latter

-L: 2 hard boiled eggs, crudites, hummous, blackberries and pineapple -D: Thai chicken and vegetable curry and rice.

My mobility has improved slightly. I can now walk indoors without crutches but still need them for outdoors, so in terms of actual energy burn, it's still comparable to a hibernating sloth.

Not too bad under the circumstances cantsee. I didn't bother with TorT this year, DD is too little and i waw putting the baby to bed when people were going round our estate.

Hello Justchillaxing, and good luck! The thread is still limping along slowly :)

Well I astonished myself by managing to eat no sugar on Monday and felt great actually. Slept well etc. Yesterday was a bit of a fail - it was my birthday so not that surprising! I hadn't planned to fail but dh unexpectedly made a pumpkin pie and a friend turned up with a bottle of prosecco!

If anything though, it's only made me even more keen to quit booze and sugar. I only had 2 small glasses of prosecco and a (large!) slice of pie and I feel rubbish this morning. Puffy-faced, unrested, dry mouth and a bit jangly.

Onwards and upwards!