I'm just going to do a numbered list:
1. For a while now when I eat anything with a good amount of sugar in it I feel mildly sick. This can't be good. I often half the sugar in any recipe I am making and to me it tastes just fine.
2. I have twenty pounds of baby fat remaining and I have an 11-month-old baby. By this time with my first baby I was 12 pounds LESS than at the start of his pregnancy. Something isn't working.
3. I have been going pretty religiously to the gym 3 times a week for 2.5 months and still no weight loss, no real inches lost, a little toner, but again, something isn't working.
4. Might as well go all out. I often regret eating sugar these days, not from guilt or anything, but I physically feel awful after I eat it. I just want to try life without ANY sugar at all.
5. I am sick of all the diet "experts" out there promoting certain ways of eating over others, when my gut feeling (ha, literally!) is that sugar is the biggest culprit for obesity and poor health, with lack of exercise probably actually being the biggest culprit. But sugar is at least a close second.
6. You do NOT need sugar. I don't care if it's raw sugar, honey from honey bees, agave syrup, maple syrup tapped from your own friggn' maple trees, there is little nutritional value to any of that stuff. No vitamins, no fiber, nothing good.
7. Since getting my CSA I have discovered so many fruits and veggies from Mother Nature that are as sweet as any dessert and I have found they make me feel way less like I am going to die because they have nutritional value to them like fiber and vitamins. Cut up a sweet potato and roast it in olive oil and a little salt and pepper, it's amazing.
8. I don't feel like I will be depriving myself. I'm just kind of getting sick of sugar. I like so many different foods, I'm not a picky eater. I really think it won't be too hard. The hardest part will be eating out and not knowing what is in the food possibly, but I think I can make smart choices and avoid most of it.
9. I feel slightly addicted to sugar. Not really though. I know there are people out there who actually struggle with food addictions and eating disorders and I do not want to claim to know what they are struggling with, but I find once the sugar rush drops I want to seek out more, and then later more.
10. I am curious what cutting out sugar and changing my diet in no other way will do. Aren't you? Will I lose weight? Will I sleep better? Will I get fewer migraines? I don't know! I can't find out unless I try. And absolutely no artificial sweeteners will be included. Those have been shown to make you like sweet things more and then you end up eating more sugar anyway. So what's the point?
11. Why not? This really can't hurt. Humans can live without sugar.
