After @guyfawkes4-20 posted about his addiction to sugar, @macchiata joined in and I couldn't just sit back and watch.
I've had a serious sugar addiction for most of my life. When I was a kid I would down those bags of Chips Ahoy like they were nothing. I'm not talking about the mini-packs with 4 cookies, I'm talking about the big bags with 2 or 4 rows of cookies, each row with maybe 20 cookies inside. I might go through a pack in 2 days. I distinctly remember eating a full bag in one day before. I would drink a cup of milk with each 4 cookies and somehow my poor first world education and warped mind led me to believe I was being healthy ("Sweets are bad for you....behold, the school vending machine").
As I got older I cut back a bit, but my addiction diversified. I spent some time into Sour Patch Kids in middle school and Dark Chocolate in high school. In university there was all-you-can-eat ice cream at the dining hall, and cake.....CAKE! I miraculously never became fat. After university it became ultra sweet coffee and milk tea.
Over the past 3 years I've quit coffee and soda, and I've stopped buying my daily chocolate bar, but I still get my fix at least 6 days a week most of the time, even if I do eat more fruit, nuts, and yogurt than before. But I'd like to completely rid this terrible stuffs hold on me once and for all.
I will always love chocolate, but I don't want to NEED it. Not even a little.
So I'm happy to be joining these friends in a 30 day no sweets challenge. I'm going to break it one day because I'm traveling somewhere that has an amazing cake store, but other than that one day, NO SWEETS. This won't apply to fruits obviously, but all other high sugar foods will be out of my diet.
When I quit soda, I started feeling more awake and energetic. I'm looking forward to seeing to how my body feels after it's detoxed from all the sweets. I will try not to compensate with too much beer or fried food either!
Let's see how it goes.
Day 1 felt easy at first but after I finished dinner, I found myself thinking about chocolate. I suppose it will really start to get better after 4 or 5 days.
Wish us luck!
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