Week 3 Results

Week three was a good week for me. I started my low-sugar diet, which, so far, has astounded me. More on that in a second. In week three, I lost 1.55%. Yeah!

Side note: I am wondering more and more why I decided to go with 22.3%. It seems like a totally arbitrary number. I should have rounded it to 22.5%.

About the low sugar diet. If you have never tried one, I highly recommend it. I have been amazed this week at how easy it was to forget about food. I am now much more aware of the hold that sugar can have over me. When I consumed a lot of 'white' foods (sugar, pasta, flour, etc), I never felt full and I felt hungry all the time. These are over-generalizations that don't quite convey how much I thought about food. Even as I'd eat lunch I would be thinking about what I would snack on in the afternoon and what I would pick up for supper. This week in particular was incredibly stressful at work, which, for me, always leads to more snacking and 'gimmes'. For some reason, when I am stressed out, I feel more entitled to eat. Like I deserve it because I'm having a bad day. Every single day was bad this week, so I find it remarkable that it was so easy to stay on track.

I've always known that sugar is addictive and creates a vicious cycle of wanting to eat more and more, but I also believed that it was just a matter of will power to overcome those urges. If you are currently wrestling with a diet that seems to be getting the best of you, try reducing your sugar and flour intake. If there's a way to avoid the constant fight with cravings all day, it's worth a try!

Just to further emphasize my point, I did not exercise once this week. I put in a lot of overtime at work, and by the time I got home at night I was so exhausted I couldn't possibly imagine facing Jillian Michaels. So the 2.5 lbs that came off this week were due entirely to cutting out sugar.

In this next week, exercise will be a priority. I'm anxious to see how well it works to combine this new way of eating with exercise.

Until next time! and please, if you read this portion of my blog, I would love to hear from you. Post what you're doing that works. Post your tricks. Post what motivates you. Post what you would recommend for me. I want to know more!