February 20, 2008

• You all probably lost sleep wondering how I did going without sugar for a day. You'll be glad to know I didn't lose sleep at all, in fact without sugar I slept most of the day at work. Actually, I wasn't anymore tired than I normally am. I also wasn't any less hyper, which is saying something because I'm pretty damn hyper. I should also stress that I did have some sugar, it was just much less than I normally do. See, I realized how fucking hard it is to go an entire day without ANY sugar. I was planning on having cereal for breakfast. As it turned out, 1% milk actually has 12 grams of sugar. And the fiber cereal had like 2 grams. Oh, and it tasted like shit, so I switched to Cheerios, which had I think 1 gram. So while eating the cereal, I tried to drink as little of the milk as possible. This did leave me a little more hungry than usual.

  I get to work and normally I have 1 cup of coffee when I get to work. That's my one cup for the entire day. Today, I had the coffee with only cream and no sugar. Made me really appreciate the added taste sugar adds to coffee.

  My boss always has candy (like M&Ms) and cookies for us to eat. This was tough but I managed to not eat them the whole day. On my first break I was hungry as hell so I stood in front of the vending machine trying to decide what would be healthy, or at least semi healthy to eat without sugar. I saw some dry roasted peanuts. I bought them and as it turns out, they have like 2 grams of sugar! But, what was I going to do, I needed to eat something and there was nothing else healthy enough in the vending machine.

  For lunch I had one of those Raman noodle cups. I don't remember how much sugar was in there if any, but I think there was at least a gram. Unfortunately those things never fill me up, so when I went up for my last break I bought a package of those peanut butter crackers, as a co-worker suggested it because she thought it would not have any sugar. 4 motherfucking grams! I gave her the crackers. I was so hungry though and craving chocolate. I was tempted to give in especially when another lady at work gave me a Russell Stover's mini heart (which has 4 pieces of chocolate) and some candy hearts. I didn't touch them though. Instead I went to another person's desk and grabbed some pretzels, which according to the container, have less than a gram of sugar.

  Ok, so I made it through work, that was going to be the hardest part. But, with it being as cold as it has been I usually have some hot chocolate at night. It was tough, but I skipped it tonight. As for dinner, I had pasta with tomatoes (which probably have sugar, but its my understanding its a natural sugar and therefore not bad) and other assorted veggies. I put gobs and gobs of Parmesan cheese on it which does not have sugar. I'm anxious to see how I sleep tonight, I was actually falling asleep during the Bulls game, but I don't know if that was from a lack of sleep or a lack of sugar. Because I only sleep about 6 hours a night, I find myself dozing off sometimes watching tv if I get too comfortable.

  All of this made me realize how addicted we are too sugar. I mean, its in just about everything. Its kinda like how everything is made in China (and probably tainted with led), just about everything we consume has some amount of sugar. I know in Brazil they use sugar as fuel instead of oil. I always say that we would be much better off as a country if we stopped putting the sugar in our bodies and instead put it in our vehicles.

  Nevertheless, I want to try this again. I want to plan this out better and buy foods that don't have sugar. I honestly thought that I would be able to find more foods without sugar. How naive of me.

  • 11:13 pm
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