Breaking up with Sugar - Day 1

Time for a change of gears. I'm not making any progress on my 10/10/20 challenge and I've realized that I need to follow my own advice. Whenever I'm asked about how to lose weight or make changes I say start small do one thing at a time don't try to do too much. For example to get started or back on track pick one thing a day and focus on just doing that so day one, get to the gym. Next, add one thing, so day 2 (or week 2 if that works better for you) is to go to the gym and drink 8 glasses of water. Then day/week 3, add another, go to the gym, drink 8 glasses of water and eat breakfast every day.

I'm realizing out loud that I have a serious problem and I need to take some serious action.

I AM ADDICTED TO SUGAR

Hi, my name is Laurie and I am an addict. I can't go a single day without sugar, be it chocolate, ice cream, cookies whatever. At least once, if not two or three, times a day I eat some sort of total crap.

I will now focus solely, well that's not entirely true, but my main focus will be to accomplish the task of eating no CRAP for the next 33 days. Between now and after my dualthon on June 13th, I will be detoxing. I will be continuing my training, getting ready for my duathlon and, I will not feed myself any CRAP.

Giving up sugar I have learned this morning a totally loaded issue that isn't easily addressed. Do you eat fake sugar? Do you eat basically normal food that happens to have sugar in it? And I have to tell you that I've spent the better half of the last 6 hours trying to figure this all out and I am so overwhelmed that I just want to sit and eat some CHOCOLATE, have a good cry and take a nap.

So obviously I'm making this too complicated and here's what I'm going to do for me, because really it's all about me. For me to be successful over the next 30 days I will refrain from eating any outright crap. Sweets, treats, etc. with real sugar or fake. This means no ice cream, no chocolate, no cake, no cookies, no candy, no cheesecake, no diet soda, no creme brule, and so on.

I will also not weigh myself over the next 33 days. This has nothing to do with weight loss really and I don't want to interpret anything I see on the scale as a positive or negative result of this goal.

Now what happens next do I skip the chocolate part and just go cry and take a nap or do I go workout?