One week off sugar.

[darxus]

I'm still very exited about this, and I think I can keep it up.

I'm currently eating a couple fresh sweet potatoes that I boiled for roughly an hour. Nothing else.

This morning I cooked a pile of chicken by throwing it into a pan, waiting for it to get crispy, flipping it, and waiting for it to get done. I still need to work on the options of adding water and a lid. Only the one ingredient.

A bunch of my meals have been a large can of chicken, drained, with the heads of a thing of fresh broccoli, mixed and microwaved for three minutes, followed by a sliced apple.

I'm sure a couple weeks ago this would have sounded gross to me, and not worth living through. It's nice how quickly taste recovers when you stop eating garbage - this stuff tastes great.

Comments

Re: Sugar and associated evils.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I'm actually having a pretty easy time of it. I attribute that mostly to serious terror of continuing my addiction. And also to completely cutting out anything that could be similar enough to the refined garbage that it might trigger uncontrollable craving. Those Myoplex shakes... I wouldn't drink at this point. I won't even eat brown rice because it's GI is above apples. Thanks for the vegetable ideas, I've been needing them. Definitely try sweet potatoes if you haven't. Yummy and very nutritious.

Oh, if you're still consuming any sugar, I highly recommend going cold turkey. My first three days were miserable. The rest of the first week was kind of hard. But after that it's been easy. I got through the first three days by realizing I wasn't interested in eating healthy food, so it wasn't actually hunger I was feeling, it was craving what I'm addicted to. And substantial fear of continuing that life of addiction.

I have been extremely happy with going very strictly to only water, lean meat (~60% of calories), vegetables (~20%, no white potatoes), and fruits (20%) - no juice, as it's too addictively refined for me. And I do highly recommend it for a sugar addict. I really think I'm getting more enjoyment out of apples and sweet potatoes now than I was out of candy bars a couple weeks ago. Well, most candy bars :/
Stupid addiction.

I've been meaning to go to MMA (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay-Thai) classes for a while now. I just can't bring myself to pay to be drilled on jumping rope, since I still need so much work on that. So my long standing plan has been to start going after I'm able to do the jump-roping first - same as Muay Thai matches: five rounds of three minutes each, with a two-minute rest between rounds. Although my primary exercise goal, and plan for the rest of my life, is to maintain optimal heart rate in any way for half an hour three times a week (on non-sequential days), since that seems to be a pretty good definition of healthy.