My (less) Sugar Adventure

This weekend I started a new nutritional adventure: no added sugar.

I've decided to do my best at adding ZERO sugar to the foods I eat - and to limit the high-processed sugar items I do eat (soda, candy, sweets, etc.).

So far, so good.

Yesterday (day 1) I even managed to avoid chocolate cake and cupcakes at work. (That's a HUGE feat, trust me). Today I also managed to avoid cupcakes and convinced myself to not take a Reese's peanut butter cup from a co-worker's stash. That should be mucho impressive - since Reeses are practically a food group to me.

Here's what I've eaten in the past 2 days:
Monday:
8 oz Acai/Pomegranate juice (mixed w/ 4 oz water)
English Breakfast tea (no sugar, no honey, no cream)
Greek yogurt w/ a small teaspoon of honey, raspberries and a small handful of Kashi "Go Lean" cereal.
                  **In the future I'll nix the teaspoon of honey. The fruit gives enough sweetness to make the yogurt taste great. Also the Kashi has honey in it.
Mini whole wheat bagel with approx 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
Orange
Ground beef concoction (browned beef sauteed with snow peas, onions and mushrooms over white rice with a dallop of cream cheese)
Small glass of milk
Chips & salsa dip (salsa mixed with cream cheese & shredded colby jack)
I also had at least 32 oz of water.

Tuesday:
English breakfast tea (no additions)
Poached egg
1/2 mini whole wheat bagel w/ 1/2 tablespoon peanut butter
Banana
Salad (romaine, white onion, red pepper, snow peas and plain chunk tuna tossed with olive oil, garlic powder and ground pepper)
Chai latte (roughly 8 oz, 1/4 chai mix, 3/4 skim milk)

I'm hoping the extra infusion of fruits and veggies will give me more energy and make me feel better than I have in the past several weeks. That and make exercising a much easier endeavor (thanks to that extra energy I'm hoping for).

So, why'd I embark on a no soda, no extra sugar adventure? Well, I thought about it and realized that I was already getting more than enough sugar from the things I was already eating (peanut butter, fruit juices, etc.) and that the extra sugar I was adding through literally adding it as well as processed food I was probably causing my blood sugar levels to go on crazy swings that really only serve to make me sluggish after a sugar peak.

Now the challenge is to keep it going... I'm not saying never another cupcake, never another soda - but I definitely hope that I get a good start and can continue to limit all that extra sugar.

Next nutritional challenge: cut out complex carbs. THAT is going to be hard for this pasta and bread lovin' lady...