I mentioned in a previous post that I'm in the process of quitting sugar. Seeing that todays #BEDM prompt was Healthy Living it seemed a grand idea to give a bit of an update.
I FEEL AMAZING!!!!!
Getting here has been less that fun. Headaches, stomach cramps, killer drooth* and irritability. By irritability think of an insomniac, pmt-ing grizzly bear with a hangover and you still aren't close to what my poor husband has had to endure. Then all of a sudden I felt ok, actually not just ok, amazing.
I'm able to get out of bed in the morning without hitting snooze 7 times. I have more energy, I'm not actually doing anything with it but it's nice to have. My tummy has shrunk. I've lost 3lb. So I already look better. Of course that feeling has me standing up just a little bit straighter too.
The odd thing is that my appetite has shrunk so that I'm having to remember to eat. Now being as that I have used this sentence to mock people horribly in the past I don't make this confession without feeling like a bit of a tit.
Last night when I shared a packet of maltesers with g I did it knowing what I was doing. Fully conscious that this was a treat. I'm not planning to never eat sugar again. I just don't want my entire day dominated by my need to work out where my next fix is coming from.
I even resisted lovely looking cake today. I wonder how long I'll remember that I like the way I feel more than I like cake?
*Drooth - a dry thirsty mouth - we Scots got all the best words!
Well done you! It's never easy making a change to your diet - we're such creatures of habit. Since Xmas I've been eating more healthily which has involved giving up all my favourite carbs - bread, crisps & pasta! It's been tough but I certainly feel much better fro it (but don't tell my PT that!)
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