Over the weekend several people have joined the 10,000 step/beat sugar challenge. I'm in the gearing up phase – yesterday that meant finishing all the chocolate hidden in the freezer. Today I am going to read the packaging of everything I eat and tally up the grams (including my New Lifestyle Diet food I take to work) just to see where I stand. I'm going to lunch at Panera today and will eat my diet food the rest of the day. Should be interesting. I'm also going to count in the drinks. Thank goodness all day while working and working out at Koko I just drink water, but my daughter, who is joining the challenge, just pointed out our love for Dunkin pumpkin! Crap. I forgot about that. At work I walk over and get that on my break. Bummer. We are buying the K Cups for home, but the store stuff is loaded with flavored syrup. 🙁 First change: Switch to plain Dunkin with skim milk. Thanks Ashley, for pointing that out. We need each other, people, we're in this together.
Today I would like to add a book that does a wonderful job of explaining why we need to kick the sugar addiction. It's called Fat Chance written by the guy in the video I shared yesterday. I bought it and spent yesterday afternoon reading it while I polished off the last of the chocolate. (Sorry – I just can't waste anything). Dr. Lustig does a great job of explaining the way our bodies work when we eat. I don't know about you, but I do much better when I understand the science behind anything I do, especially diet and exercise. If I can somehow picture what sugar is doing inside of me when I eat it, I will have a better chance of avoiding it.
And so, as another day goes by, tomorrow I will post my grams for today and compare it with the recommended allowance a body can handle per day, I'm taking action, I'm taking the first steps, October 1 is looming, and…I have written.
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