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Congrats on the release of another pound, Amarantha! :cheer: You're definitely on the right track...keep going!
I found myself on a macrobiotic website today looking for acceptable chocolate recipes today. Oh yeah, I'm menstrual, what can I say? :^: Found a recipe for rice syrup sweetened brownies and one for chocolate dipped biscotti. [I miss biscotti, so was very happy to find this one!] However, I'm feeling cranky today too and probably won't be doing much baking today. More of a getting out my pillow and blankie and laying on the couch all day watching TV---some days you just have to do it! ;) I was on another forum today and someone posted about the fact that every February you see alot of articles and blurbs about the health benefits of chocolate. I can't say that I've really noticed that, but I'll be looking. Interesting food for thought..... A few years back, Prevention mag was touting the benefits of dark chocolate and they said that Dove Promises [the dark chocolate] was the way to go. If you just have 2 'promises' you'd get the antioxident benefits, etc. I bought into that and resolved that I'd have my 'medicinal' chokky every day. HAH! Before I knew it I was having 10-20 promises every day. I must've been overflowing with antioxidents! :lol: :lol: :lol: I just couldn't handle it!!! |
Cranky day, go away, happy day, come out to play! Yay!
Thanks for the congrats, E!!!! I should be feelin' more cheerful but am still really blah ... went back to the depression and lemon sandwich cookie fixation whilst shoppin' ... WHAT'S UP WITH THE LEMON SANDWICH COOKIES? I'VE RARELY EVER HAD A LEMON SANDWICH COOKIE? AND WHY THE HECK WERE THEY STACKED LIKE MAHJONG TILES ... well, ok, I like to play mahjong solitaire, but ...???
Anyhow, I did not cave :dizzy: but DID have a piece of malitol sweetened candy ... totally "legal" on Sugar Busters, meaning it had only 10 grams of a sugar alcohol per serving and was otherwise sugar free and also had no corn syrup (can't have corn products on SB) ... it took FOREVER to find this ... anyhow, the candy just had cream, cocoa, pecans and the malitol. It was WAY sweet ... I didn't finish it. So much for legal candy. I drove around shoppin' 'n suchlike and was really blue ... yea, E, I've noticed all the "chocolate is healthy" articles lately, too! :coffee: Hmmm, chocolate may be healthy, but what about all that sugar? :) In a popular women's mag that I have a secret weakness for, I saw advice that if you want to get over chocolate cravings, eat MORE of it because a British study found that people who ate more chocolate over time found the taste less and less pleasant and so ate LESS of it than people who ate LESS of it. Huh? On to my Day 23!!!! Let's get going and get this zip, boom 'n bah no sugar mojo thread hoppin' with enthusiastic sugar free participants this week, 'kay? WHADDA YA SAY!!!!???? :smug: |
Well, forgot the rest o' me story ... driving and feelin' like caving on the sugar/flour thing altogether and feelin' distinctly alone and unloved (especially after the malitol fiasco), decided NOT to cave but to find a way to feel Valentiny without lemon sandwich cookies (whatever those represent to me) ... so bought a red Valentine's teddy bear and have been carrying it around ... Old Dog will probably tear it up soon, but for now, it's keepin' me from the SD (SUGAR DEMON) :devil:
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I think that we're psychic sisters, Amarantha. I too am feeling some sort of vague restlessness with my program, am tired of all the dairy and eggs I'm eating to meet my protein quota, and wondering if it's right for me. And I admit it, today I'm craving sugar! BUT I will not go back to that madness. I've been there and it wasn't pretty--no matter what I ever told myself.
Sooo, I need a different plan---not a different plan, but I need to redo my current plan. Will be working on that today. I'm with you, A---I need more energy this week. Let's see what we can conjure up!!! :) |
Well, I'm still doin' the paying writin' but stopped to see how the sugar-free folkettes are doin' and yea, :queen: E, I do think we're psychic ... and sugarless ... sisters! :lol: I was going to report over on the St. Val's challenge that this was NOT a low cal day, BUT here's the kicker, I'm still on the program (my version of Sugar Busters, which tells me not to keep going back for more food, but that's not an option because, yes, I need an energy boost to write two more stories by midnight).
BUT, the good part is that I'm eating grapes, peanut butter (sugar free natural, of course), and skim milk ... NOT donuts, cupcakes, et al. I am also getting sick of the eggs ... I've had a lot, too, :queen: E. I never meant to go low carb, but there's not all that much interesting to eat around here. Milk I will never tire of, I just love it AND although I've had too much of it today to be a weight loss day, I do feel that just that I can now drink it happily without any Splenda or sweeteners OR without buying dulce de leche and having it make me sick, is a bonus. I believe that may be the answer for you, too, :queen: E ... maybe you just need to overeat on something that has natural sugar (or "legal" in Sugar Busters) and let your body move to satiety. I feel quite a bit better since I did this and the cravings are history again. The natural sugar in the milk and grapes seems to have kicked in but my blood sugar seems stable. Of course, I don't know if I'll overeat again tomorrow, which could start to be a problem in itself. Ok, back to the payin' writing. I'll be done in an hour and I suspect I won't have a desire to eat anything else. Later ... |
AND NO, THERE'S NO GOIN' BACK TO THE SUGAR, E!!!!! No way, no how! I will never go back and I know you won't either!
There likely are many folks who can do what, as you know, I aspired to do: control weight, stay healthy, control blood sugar, mood swings and cravings, etc., etc., and still have sugary treats. For the rest of us, let's just say no! :) |
[b]Ah, I'm postin' two in a row here, Sugar Free Folkettes! :) How be everyone?
Actually, I wanted to tell E and everyone assuming they are interested that someone posted something in my journal on agave nectar that might be promising as a sweetener ... I'm too tired to write about it now, but you might look at it over there if you're up before me, as I assume you will be because I'm going to sleep for a long time and eat a good breakfast in bed. I don't think I'll ever choose to use agave nectar as I want to avoid all sugar as much as possible ... it's not totally possible, but I can try, with the exception of those found naturally in foods ... except the aforementioned corn, corn products, pineapple, raisins, etc. ... :) |
Hi, sugarfree sisters! Sorry I've been away! I don't usually have the opportunity to get online on weekends, but I'm still sugarfree! It's eerie--I'm also dissatisfied with my plan, and haven't been following my three meals a day, no snacks rule (but chips and dip are not my "drug," so I'm feeling OK as long as I'm sugarfree). My sister brought over some chocolate chip bagels this weekend, and I really struggled to resist. But I did :cp: Maybe it's something astrological? I did read in my Mom's SBD book that if you eat fruit, you should not eat it at breakfast because it intensifies that day's cravings. I had been trying to eat fruit with breakfast everyday last week, so maybe that had something to do with my struggles. Today I skipped the fruit and will try eating it at lunch.
Amarantha, how funny that your dreaming about sandwich cookies (like if you were going to indulge, they would be your choice! Not bloody likely!). Did you eat them in your dream? If so, I think that's a stress dream (like the ones where you show up on exam day and realize you forgot to attend the class all semester). I remember when I was pregnant I'd have dreams that I'd forgotten I was pregnant and drank some wine. Total stress! Eydie, let me know how you reconfigure your plan. I'm thinking of doing a modified SBD. But for now, no more chips and dip!!! Today is paczki day here in Detroit. Give me strength! |
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Hey, Gypsy, mayhap we are sisters too as I've often dreamt of taking exams where I haven't been to class all semester ... oh, no, wait, that was my whole college career!!! :lol:
No, didn't eat the sandwich cookies in the dream. They were just stacked up like mahjong tiles. CONGRATULATIONS ON STAYING SF!!!!! :cheer: I'm also having trouble with meal patterning but don't consider it as important as staying SF!!!! Re fruit, Sugar Busters says it's a good idea to eat it alone because it's digested in a different part of the body than other stuff (my interpretation of the long-winded explanation) ... I don't pay much attention to that. It seems faddish to me, but I know I'm cutting back on the fruit a bit this week ... it doesn't cause me to have any cravings but it's hard to go from a diet of cupcakes as a main course to eating whole fruit and digestion is an issue. Grapes and pears seem to be the easiest thing for me to eat. What is a paczki? I lived in Detroit once, don't remember that. It sounds like something containing TDS (THE DEMON SUGAR) :devil: !!! :lol: Let's all stay strong!!! It's a TDS jungle out there. I'm on Day 24, no refined sugar, no white flour. How is everyone else doing? |
Hey, I'm looking forward to your 200th day when ya get there, :queen: E, as I KNOW you will. Keep a'goin' ... it really is worth it to be sugar free (wheeeeeeee), dinna ye think?
Here's what I'm thinkin' ... if my plan (a modified and tweaked version of Sugar Busters) stops serving me, I'm STILL gonna be refined sugar/white flour free, so it's no big thing if I switch "plans" ... right now I'm in a fantasy mode again ... Seems that somehow an alien force o' ESDs (Evil Sugar Demons) :devil: has taken over the familiar LETICH (Lovely Earth That I Call Home). I have joined the SFPUASDs (Sugar Free Pals United Against Sugar Demons) and pledged to fight those :devil: s with the last ounce of strength left in my now mostly sugar free teeny brain. And so it goes. :wave: |
Amarantha, your posts always make me laugh! Paczki IS laden with the demon sugar :devil: ! It's the Fat Tuesday Polish donut-type thing with fruit or custard. I think I'm on day 39 without sweets (I'm bad at math :( ). Honestly, isn't it easy after awhile? I mean, I have situational desires for sugar (sister bringing chocolate chip bagels, for example) because it's there. But I don't sit here overcome with cravings for sweets out of the blue. What freedom!
Tomorrow's Lent, and although I'm a fallen Catholic, I'm thinking of giving up diet pop for Lent. I'm down at the little store buying pop several times during the workday, and it's expensive. So I'm switching to tea. I bought myself some yummy-sounding honey vanilla tea (no calories, no sugars, so I'm guessing it counts as sugar free). I've relied a lot on Diet Vanilla Pepsi/Coke to satisfy my sweet tooth--I'm hoping the tea will work as well. Amarantha, could you share why you decided to give up white flour? Just curious. Thanks! |
I Love This Thread!!!!
A, I'm looking forward to day 200 too! ;) I'm on Day 143 now and it floors me that I've been able to stay away from sugar this long. But when I think about it, I've had a sugar orgy for 41 years [my whole life] so I was due for a break.
Gypsy, strange that you're having the same feelings of restlessness too. Hmmmm. We're all cosmically connected! :wizard: I think that the main cause of my unease is pure stinkin' boredom. I'm bored with my food and I'm longing to go macrobiotic. Have been looking over my macro cookbooks and the simplicity of it all sounds really appealing right now. But I'm NOT giving up my morning coffee for twig tea! :coffee: About eating fruit--if I make a meal of fruit, it makes me soooo hungry. I've tried it enough to know that's how it goes for me. I love the idea of a big beautiful plate of luscious fruit by itself but I turn into one cranky puppy! :mad: Want to hear something silly? I'm feeling guilty about wanting to change my food plan. I've gotten so much from Radiant Recovery, more than I can say, but something feels 'off' to me right now. It feels like too much protein and since I'm vegetarian I'm getting a lot of that protein from cheese and eggs and it feels like too much and my food seems so rich and heavy. I'm craving salads and plain rice and beans!!! I feel like a traitor! I know it's crazy, but it's what I'm feeling. I've been so good about following the plan to the letter and I actually think that part has been good for me; to give up control and follow a plan for awhile, and now I feel like if I keep following ALL the rules and regs of this plan I'll lose it and the backlash could be ugly. So once again, Amarantha, we're kinda doing the same thing. Doing a plan, but putting our own spin on it, and absolutely no sugar or white flour! :) |
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I found this threath following you Eydie, I found one of your postings about how much you power walk on the treadmill. We do pretty much the same I also walk at 4.5 and run in commercials for 45 mins. :lol: I am also 41. Anyway, I would like to know more about the 200 days and what it means. I am not taking sugar either, but I sometimes use Splenda approved in the South Beach Diet that the doc recommended + Metformin to help me lose the 40 lbs I am not able to lose only with the excercise I do. I am pretty active, try to do Power Yoga in heat at least twice a week, treadmill 4 days a week at least and going up and down the stairs at home everyday. Drop me a line. Maria-Paz |
Welcome, Danicomia! The "200" thing comes from us counting the number of days we've been off sugar. I'm only at Day 143, but look forward to hitting the next milestone of 200 days. Ah, the little games we play with ourselves!
I noticed you're new at 3FC--what do you think of the site? I love the forum--I get so much out of it everyday! |
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I found this site surfing for pics in Google. :dizzy: I like the forums, although I am now getting a hand on coming back to the ones I have read from and I am most interested in. I am also not eating sugar. Per my doc I need to stay away from the whites and I am giving up chocolate and desserts for Lent, so starting tomorrow I am not eating anything that has sugar in it, I may have those sugarless instant puddings though. :lol: I have been kind of following the SB Diet for a month already. Tonight my Hubby made a pizza on a tortilla that came out great! We are trying to stick from eating whites, although with small children is so difficult if they are always asking for icecream, etc. |
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