Sugar Detox - Days 3-4

Highlight of my day: MILK in my coffee!!!  It was AMAZING!  My original plan was to keep drinking black coffee and have cheese in my salad, but since I was going to a coffee shop with a friend this morning, I decided to splurge on a latte.  It was incredible.  Before the sugar detox, I would've put a packet of sugar in a latte, but it was SO GOOD to me with just the coffee and milk.  Since I can have one cup of milk per day, I've decided to spread it out to my usual three cups of coffee throughout the day for the rest of the week.  I really do not like black coffee, but I think I might be able to live with just milk in my coffee and no sugar.  The guy at the coffee shop said the latte had a shot of espresso and 200 ml of milk, so I put 50 ml of milk in my coffee this afternoon.  It wasn't as good as the latte (which was almost all milk), but it was a definite improvement.  I'm hoping that 1/3 cup of milk in my coffee will be perfect for me.

So, we had the same breakfast (which is tasting better and better and getting more filling each day) and almost the same lunch.  The only change to our lunch salad is that we added grated carrots and Cameron also added shredded cheese.  It was interesting how I didn't necessarily taste the carrots, but the salad overall tasted much better to me with them.  It really did taste sweeter. 

For dinner we made a stir-fry, which was pretty good.  It had chicken, broccoli, carrots, peas, sesame oil, soy sauce, and ginger.  It was surprising how good it tasted without added sugar.  Normally when we would make Chinese, we would include noodles/rice, teriyaki sauce (lots of sugar), and honey.  I could still taste that it wasn't super sweet, but it was really good.  It was funny that I had been looking forward to my first fruit, but after I ate dinner I was feeling full.  I decided to eat the apple anyway, but it wasn't as good as I had anticipated.  I think maybe tomorrow we will try having the apple as an afternoon snack instead.  It does get a little old eating only cashews for our snack.  I'm also thinking about getting some hummus, since we can eat it with carrot sticks now.  I've also considered making my own peanut butter to eat with carrot sticks, but we'll see.

Overall on day 4, I'm feeling pretty good.  I am looking forward to adding more dairy and fruit options.


Day 3

I was too tired last night to update the blog, but it wasn't too different from days 1 & 2.  The main difference is that I ran with my C25K plan for the first time since starting the sugar detox.  I was worried that I may feel lightheaded, so I even kept a granola bar in my fanny pack, but I was fine.  It was about as difficult as it usually is for me to run, so I thought that was pretty good.  I did eat a few more cashews at my next snack after the run, because I was feeling more hungry, but it wasn't overpowering.