Sugar-free

Day three of no sugar and no white flour.
At all.
No fructose, sucrose, cane sugar, or date sugar. No sugar in bagels or crackers or yogurt...which hardly counts as sugar at all, right? In my mind, sugar is licorice or a cupcake or a big sugar cookie or Twerpz or Kissables.....

It is very sneaky all the foods that have sugar in them. Who knew dry roasted peanuts had sugar in them? I bought a gluten, wheat and sugar free bar at the health food store. It tasted like banana flavored bark AND it had 230 calories. I could have had a bag of Kissables for that calorie content. It certainly was not worth the calories! Artificial sweeteners mimic sugar in your body, so no diet drinks with splenda or aspartame.

It is all very complicated, so why am I punishing myself? Supposedly if you do not eat sugar or white flour (low glycemic index foods), you will remain fuller longer and will not eat as much overall. You are supposed to have more energy, clearer skin, reduced body fat, and a healthier heart. I am waiting for this phenomenon to take over my body, waiting for the benefit to be greater than the feeling of deprivation. I am also waiting to button my jeans comfortably again.

And now, as I was looking longingly at the Frosted Flakes in the cupboard, my sons came home with chocolate chip cookie dough, which they are now consuming, raw, in front of me at the kitchen table. It's is just too cruel.....Almost as cruel as eating dried soybeans at the football game instead of french fries.