Anyway, a few days ago a friend of mine came over for dinner. He has given up on sugar since late last year, and I rather liked the idea. One, since I've got such a sweet tooth that I add to my food 3x the amount of sugar any normal human being would, cutting down on sugar would really do me good. Second, I really need to kick this soft drink habit of mine, I had been drinking it wayy to much for my own good, even though it was only the diet variety. Not only did I suspect that I would wake up one day to realize all my teeth had fallen off at night, but I was worried that my brain was being fried to a pickle by all the Aspartame (the artificial sugar in diet soft drinks). Third, one more aim. A not-so-silly one this time, in my opinion.
Note that I'm not fat or anything yet (knock on wood), I'm a few pounds underweight, can swim around 15-20 laps in the pool in 30 mins (still learning) and can run 5 miles/8kms in around 40 mins, non-stop. But I have taken two arrows to the knees in the past, one in each knee.
The first week was absolute horror. I cut out sugar cold turkey, and felt like Gollum did without his Precious. Not only was I ravenously hungry most of the time, the craving for sugar was quiet intense. Not to mention that life sucked, all flavor seemed to have been drained from food. The only form of sugar I consumed was from fruits, or tomato soup. No ketchup either. Oatmeal doesn't taste the same without sugar. I substituted soft drinks with green tea, which tastes like cardboard dissolved in water, in my opinion. To add insult to injury, on the second day of my little endeavor, someone at work brought some carrot cake for everyone. I swear I could hear the cake laughing at me, I felt like a drug addict on rehab. Ok, that was an exaggeration, it wasn't that bad, but pretty bad anyway.
I had decided that I would carry on this charade for one month, and I'm down to the last week now. Quite fittingly, at the end of the week is my cousin's birthday party, and I'm going to murder all the cake there in cold blood. After that I'll add a very small amount of sugar back to my diet for a while, a fraction of what I used to have earlier.
It's been hard work but I think it was worth the trouble. I did increase my intake of fried stuff a bit to compensate for the utter lack of anything sweet, I suck, I know. Maybe that's what I'll do for my next endeavor. Me and my bright ideas.
I haven't felt any different, though I'm glad I'm not ingesting an unhealthy amount of sugar anymore, and that those soft drinks haven't had a chance to kill me from the inside for a while. There hasn't been a noticeable change in my weight. My sugar craving has subsided now. End of blog post.
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most"
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