Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Sugar, Sugar, everywhere...

The campaign to eradicate sugar from my life is ongoing.  I've pretty much emptied the house of any items considered "candy" and am attempting to wean myself for sugar-free items, like sugar free jello.  I've been having really horrid gas pains (sorry to be gross) and I think, from other reading I'm doing, that it is due to the sugar alcohols I'm eating in sugar-free foods.

I'm trying to eat about 1200 calories a day.  My typical day looks like this:

Breakfast   -24 oz water
                  -large coffee with splash 2% milk
                  -1/2 peach with 6oz fat free/sugar free vanilla yogurt and 1/4 cup
                    Kashi Go Lean Crunch
Lunch         -24 oz water
                  -1 piece Trader Joe's flat bread, 1/4 cup carrots and 2 tablespoons hummus
                  -2 cups salad with homemade vinaigrette
                  -1 sugar free jello
Snack         -large coffee with splash 2% milk
                  -1 sugar free pudding
Dinner        -16oz water
                  -large salad (3 cups) with homemade vinaigrette
                  -main dish (meatless spaghetti, turkey chili, eggs, chicken, etc)
                  -1 piece bread, corn bread, muffin (usually homemade)

If I could stop there, I think things would be fine.  However I don't.  After I put Kidlette to bed I start to graze.  A handful of chips.  A cookie.  A piece of toast.  A glass of milk.  This is where it seems to be falling apart for me.

One of the things I did last year when I was trying not to eat was work out at night (in a addition to my noon gym trip.)  30 minutes on the treadmill after Kidlette goes down, instead of sitting on the couch, eating chips, playing video games or watching TV.  I think I will re-instate this practice.  I need to kick start the weight loss some way!

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