Here is my wrap up of week 2 of quitting sugar (this was obviously written a few weeks ago now!):

So week 2 was always going to be a challenging one, but I have to say I went into it with a pretty positive mindset. So why was week 2 going to be challenging? Well in the scheme of I Quit Sugar it’s the week you start adding more (good) fat to your diet so that definitely wasn’t the hard part. The hard part was that my week 2 happened to fall over Easter.

The good thing was that I am away from home and living in a house where it is very hard to bake, so I didn’t get given Easter eggs from family and I didn’t cook any hot cross buns. However I work in sales & marketing at a ski field which means I was working on all the Easter activities including organizing the Easter egg hunt. The Easter egg hunt involved crappy quality Easter eggs so I decided from the day we got the Easter eggs that I was not going to eat one. Why? Because in the past even if I haven’t loved the sweet stuff I was eating it seemed I could not stop. Well I am happy to say that I stuck to my plan, over Easter I did not eat one Easter egg or hot cross bun. The only thing I did indulge in was one piece of 85% cocoa Lindt chocolate.

This week I continued noticing how it’s easier to stop eating when I am full. Also how I don’t need to snack so much during the day (before I used to get hungry every 2-3 hours but now I can last sometimes 5 hours without eating).

Next week (week 3) my plan is to:

  • Cut down on latte’s and just drink coffee with a little bit of milk (to cut out the sugars from the 2% milk they use at my coffee shop – unfortunately they don’t stock full fat milk)
  • Now that I have finished my chocolate flavoured protein powder I am going to start using my new protein powder which has 0g of sugar – I am going to use cinnamon in my protein pancakes to make up for the lack of flavor
  • Change my afternoon snack from tuna, beans and cheese (which I am finding is too filling as I am not hungry at dinner time) to just a stick of string cheese – I will see how this goes and then reevaluate after a few days
  • Stop eating flavoured tuna which has about ½ tsp sugar per serving and start eating plain tuna which has no sugar
  • Start being stricter about my ‘cheat’ meal – I have been having a few too many cheat meals over the past two weeks so I am going to sit down at the beginning of the week to work out what is on that week and choose when I want my cheat meal – cheat meals for me are not going to have any sugar, they will be sweet potato fries or a burger etc (no tomato sauce!)
  • I ran out of berries half way through week 2 and I am not going to buy any more – I plan to reintroduce these later on ( I was eating these at breakfast and dessert)
  • Start using coconut oil (when it arrives in the post) instead of olive oil and butter in frying
  • Cut out bread for a few weeks as I can’t find any gluten free sugar free bread

Stay tuned to see if I stuck to my goals and how I am going….