too easy

So how easy is it to lose weight?  Well for me I'd say easy as.....easy as good healthy eating.
I tried on a pair of shorts and some gorgeous 'capri' pants that I haven't been able to fit in for a couple of years.  They fit and might I say look rather gorgeous on...

I haven't weighed myself.  Don't particularly need to.  All I know is that I can't put weight back on while I dont eat ANY sugars/honeys/lactose/corn syrup/golden syrup/fruit juice extract etc.

I dont eat any low-fat foods now either.  Low-fat foods are engineered to taste approximately the same as full-fat version.  The most common way of achieving this is to increase the sugar content, and then to increase the salt content to balance the additional sweetness.

Now if you like your wine as I do you can still have some.  Average red wine contains 0.6% per glass
which is good as I only drink red wine.  Average white wine contains 1.0% ......so since it is 'safe' to have 6 grams of sugar per day you can safely have a glass or two of wine.  With one important condition alcoholic drinks are ok for the recovering sugarholic as long as they don't taste sweet and they are not mixed with other drinks that contain sugar.  You can keep the dry wines, beers and spirits but you need to toss the dessert wines, ports, sweet sherries, liqueurs and mixers.

So it's not all bad news.  I stick to red wine on the weekends.  That's enough alcohol for me.

Rule #4

Rule #4

Don't concern yourself with fat content other than to steer clear of low-fat foods (They contain increased amounts of sugar to substitute the flavour)

Fancy that…..Manufacturers add sugar in many forms to low fat foods to increase the flavour.  Who would have thought!!!!

So it has been around 60 days since I gave up all sugars, including hidden sugars. No cravings at all.  Sometimes I will walk past a café and see yummy gluten free cakes however as soon as I look at them I laugh as there are no cravings.   I have no interest in anything sweet after almost 60 years of consuming sugar every single day.

The cupboards are still clear of processed food apart from tin tomatoes which contains some sugar.  We are allowed around 6 grams of sugar a day, so when we cook using tin tomatoes that small amount of sugar is negligible as it is spread over a large recipe consumed by more than just one person.

Our dips are sugar free as well.  I can’t wait til we move into our house and all our ‘stuff’ is out of storage as that will help me even more as I will be able to prepare/cook more recipes that are sugar free.

I had a client this week who said her whole family were overweight.  They ate well.  They were eating all the right foods.  Low fat food and lots of fruit and multi grain breads.

I asked her if she knew what hidden sugar was.  She didn’t.  So we went through the family diet.

Breakfast was cereal loaded with sugar, low fat milk, loaded with sugar, multi grain bread, again more sugar and a possible gluten overdose.  That in itself worried her.

She is really serious about changing her diet so I asked her to go home and check her pantry for hidden sugars.

We also talked about treats.  I offered some suggestions including the fruits that contained low amounts of sugar in them.  These included:

Rockmelon                                Watermelon

Cranberry                                  Strawberries

Gooseberry                               Honeydew

Raspberry                                 Pears

Plums                                       Kiwifruit

Mandarins

These fruit have 4 and less grams of sugar and are high in fibre so they could have a few pieces of them each day.  I explained that they can’t have dried fruits at all as they are loaded with sugar.

By this time we had done a few rounds of tapping as she felt guilty about what she has been feeding her family.

She left knowing that from that day on she will do better.

I can’t wait to see her again to see how she went with her pantry, and also to see if she continued with her tapping.

This woman has enrolled in my Healthy Lifestyles workshop even though it won’t be for months.  Good for her!!!!!