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!!!!!