Well it’s been awhile since I posted my wrap up of Week 3 of the I Quit Sugar program so I thought I should give you an update.

Week 3 is supposed to be the week when you cut out sugar altogether however after trying to do Week 3 for about 3 weeks I decided that I wanted to just continue watching how much sugar I eat but allow it in small amounts every now and then.

To revisit my goals from the end of week 2…

  • 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) – My new local coffee shop stocks full fat milk and since I love my daily latte I have decided to allow myself one a day
  • 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 – I succeeded with this goal and have started sweetening my protein pancakes with Stevia (more on Stevia in an upcoming post)
  • 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 – I have actually changed jobs where I am working odd hours and sometimes don’t get a break for my entire 5 hour shift so my eating habits have changed a bit. I am just eating when I feel hungry and including protein in all meals now.
  • Stop eating flavoured tuna which has about ½ tsp sugar per serving and start eating plain tuna which has no sugar – done :)
  • 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 am still struggling with this one and want to start concentrating on it again
  • 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) – it’s strawberry season here which means they are really cheap so I have been having strawberries for breakfast and sometimes dessert but that is the only fruit I am eating
  • Start using coconut oil (when it arrives in the post) instead of olive oil and butter in frying – done :)
  • Cut out bread for a few weeks as I can’t find any gluten free sugar free bread – I have been cutting down on the amount of bread I eat

I am now going to make monthly goals in regards to my new sugar free lifestyle. For June I am going to:

  • Work on my cheat meals having only one a week
  • Stop pigging out on the free food at work we get when we hold buffets
  • Stop drinking Coke Zero and start adding flavoured Stevia to soda water

How is everyone else going with their I Quit Sugar program?