So the first week is over and everyone is looking good so far. A few minor lapses, but realistically, everyone is doing awesome. Such a dramatic change for some people and you should all be so proud of yourselves!!!

A lot of you are asking questions about various sweet options and how you can get around not having these sweet things. Others are complaining that the options they have are not sweet enough. One of the main points to this month is to try to re-train your tastebuds not to crave sweet all the time. That won’t happen when you find loopholes or use artificial sweetener. The aim to to go suagr free. Sugar makes things sweet. If you keep having sweet things, you will go straight back to sugar on the 1st December. Please try to change your eating habits and see what happens.

One thing not be worried about is the fruit. If you are trying to lose weight with this challenge then I say to keep to the 2 pieces of fruit per day. If weight loss is not your goal and just like me, you are merely trying to create the healthiest body possible by eliminating all the refined sugar, then go ahead and eat more than 2 pieces per day. It is the least thing to worry about on the challenge.

I faced my first challenge on Thursday night. Unlike a lot of you, I am not challenged by the thought of no alcohol or no sugar in my caffeine as I don’t drink either. My challenge is sweets. Lately I have been going late night shopping with my wife and daughter. This is a treat for us because I work every other week night and it is only in the last 2 months that I have taken Thursday nights of, so we usually go and cruise around the shops as we have never been late night shopping in the 6 years we have been together.

So, whenever we go late night shopping, we get a treat. It might be sweet popcorn, it might be cookie man or something along those lines. I am happy ot say that I was not even tempted on Thursday night. I am still 100% sweet free and now that I am through that first week, there are no cravings. When you don’t have it, you don’t crave it.

But, I have not been perfect. Yesterday, I have a handful of hot chips and I have stated that white potato is not allowed in NOSUGARVEMBER due to it’s position on the glycemic index. It is a very common food to be eaten and it is around 80 on the glycemic index, right next to white rice for all you sushi lovers, so it is a good habit to get out of eating it regularly.

So, as penance for my handful of hot chips, here are my 5 burpees…

Good luck for week 2 guys and girls:)

Tags: no sugar, sugar free

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