Yeah, sometimes I think I'm you too.Originally Posted by Shorty
Yeah, sometimes I think I'm you too.
Well, 18 days into the month and I'd like to think we're all (likely) coming along just fine.
I also started keto on Sunday, and the only form of carbohydrate I've been craving in the last three days has specifically been ice cream. But if I break keto, I gotta start all over, so... nope! It's not really difficult, but the stupid nagging feeling in my stomach is reminding me that I don't have 902735784325 grams of glucose and sucrose fueling my body.
(I don't even get to ingest fructose for another 11 days... wahhhh)
Both of you can mix it up with me any time you like ;-)Yeah, sometimes I think I'm you too.
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Eating sugar and have lost 20lbs the past few months! My secret, I'm off steroids I had been on for the past 4yrs .
Nom nom. Sugar. Ice cream. Nom.
Keto is too strict for me. I cook for myself and the boyfriend and he doesn't want to do it and wants other things so yah. Doesn't work out well.
Okay, guys. It has almost been one month. A month of ignoring the mint ice cream in my freezer, a month of ignoring desserts at family dinners on Sundays, a month of saying "no thank you" to cake and sweets at company meetings, a month of no iced vanilla lattes, a month of no candy bars while checking out, a month of no treats for myself at the end of a long, hard week. It has been stupidly hard. I have not had any sugar, with the exception of a caprisun that I was handed at a doctor's office because I needed to down some crackers for some medicine. Other than that, been totally sugarless since June 2nd.
My cravings for sugar have not lessened. Not one bit. Just over the weekend I impulsively grabbed for some M&Ms before stopping myself and remembering that I couldn't eat them. I still think about it a lot. I still want it a lot. I do not think I will ever totally cut it out of my diet because smurf that. If you can't live for chocolate cake, what can you live for?
Though my cravings have not subsided, my self-discipline has increased. I think I can go for another month, and I'm going to do it. But before I do that, after tomorrow I am getting a huge slice of gourmet chocolate cake to feed my cravings just a little bit before going another round.
I don't know if the second month will get any easier. I think I am just predispositioned toward sugar and I always will be. If nothing more, this has been a test for how well I can control myself, which has been something I've needed to work on as it is.
One more day and then cake!
Yay reward cake!
I finished my two weeks of ketosis (since I was already mostly sugar-free before the challenge even started) and I'm definitely going to continue, as I've already hit the "weight loss wall" that you usually get a couple months into a diet plan.
The first two weeks, adhering to the "No Sugar Added" challenge, I managed to cut down from [all weight listed in pounds] 194 to 189. The second two weeks, adhering to a keto plan, I dropped from 189 to 167, 17 of which was just in the first week! I am super excited about trimming the fat at this point. Weight-wise, I feel I'm fine, so as long as I can just tone up, trim the gut, and exercise just a little bit (I get 09283258723 miles of cardio at work every day, but I still need to work my core), I could really care less where my weight ends up. I don't have an ideal target for weight, but I do have a pants size I'd like to get back to!
I've already taken the belt down a notch, so it's a start.
(No reward cake for me though... so proud of Shorty!)
You're stronger than me dude xD I'm so happy for how well you've been doing! Nearly thirty pounds in just a matter of weeks, that's awesome.
I've been eating fruits for sure! I wouldn't consider cutting fruit out if a diet as a healthy move.
God, this next month is going to suck so badly. I have been stricken with a sudden inspiration to bake and hone my chocolatier skills, and I really really want to do this but there is no way I can do this on a no-sugar month.Suddenly having second thoughts about month #2!
#ironicyolo
I failed so horribly at this. Managed the first half of the month, then 2nd half I binged like cray.
I'll just copy what I wrote from my livejournal~
30 days of no sugar over. I lumped in carbs, too, and had a chimichanga for the first time in god knows how long last night with cherry coke and a delicious half slice of carrot cake. I couldn't eat any more. I really wanted chocolate as I'd been craving it all this time, but the selection of chocolate slices didn't look as delectable as I would have hoped. so I went with my signature carrot cake.
it was all delicious, but afterward it all felt heavy in me. heavy, and there was a clear and obvious spike I could feel of my blood sugar raising. it was the weirdest thing, I don't think I've ever felt that before. also, this morning, I experienced a weird phenomenon in what I can only describe as a sugar hangover, because I have no other notion as of what to call it. my head felt thick like it does when I've spent a night drinking syrupy or juice-y alcoholic drinks. I didn't even bother to weigh myself.
so that's it. 30 days of no sugar, no bread, wheat, or grains, and as few carbs as I could manage. I am struggling between wanting to do another month of this as I think it was incredibly beneficial for my body and my weight loss goals, but I also really have a strong urge to bake and play with making chocolate.
ahhhhhh I can't do it. I can't do no sugar in my life for another month. Hello, future caramel-and-chocolate-making self in my kitchen.
If nothing else, a month without sugar has helped me learn to exercise self control and discipline. I'm still going without carbs for a little while, though.
I hope you don't feel bad for deciding not to do this again in July! I think the process of doing it through June has probably made you a lot better at controlling the urge to eat sugar just because you can and will hopefully make the prospect of overloading on sugar less appealing. If you ever feel yourself slipping into the habit of eating sugar all the time again, you could always do another month's break then! In the meantime, enjoy your baking. I hope we get to see pictures of all the delicious things you make.
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