30 Days NoGluten/Sugar Challenge

How do you like your eggs? Do you use hot sauce?

 

I want to join you guys!
I plan for fail days but I want to make 30days without sugar and minimal gluten/ white bread.
I don't like the idea of "cheat days" very much because it promotes eating a lot of crap. But a fail day with a reasonable amount of sugar, because I just couldn't say no when someone offered me a cake or something - that can happen, it's ok.

Starting Moday the 4th of April (tomorrow)

 

I also want to (continue to) keep away from alcohol most of the time (but I make exceptions for parties, which are rare in my life)
and from coffee.

 

Hello @StoicContemplation (great name, by the way!)
yes, it's good to have some accountability. So let's do this!

I thought that it would need quite some time to change ones gut bacteria. But I'm reading now that it "changes rapidly with Diet". Here's the article: LINK

So today is my first day and for some reason I started it with a 16-hour fast. I broke it with two tangerines. And then I had to work some more until finally my first proper meal was roasted Calamari rings with self-made garlic-dip and fresh lemon juice. Followed by nuts, raisins and the fresh version of raisins
Only the Calamari rings were processed food and I guess it contained some gluten but at least it was fish.

I have everything I need at home, so no need to go buy more, like sweets. No this will be a day 1/30

 

Roasted Calamari rings from the deep freezer with the heavy crème fraîche garlic-dip, followed by nuts and raisins was a little too much after all,

Does the day begin for you after midnight, or when you wake up in the morning? Yes, it's a technical question.

I think fasting might make it more difficult to stay sugar and carbon free.

 

Sounds delicious!

 

I can relate to that, but it's mostly the other way round for me: when I relapse (pmo) most of the time my good habits collapse and I feel like I have a free pass now to eat crap too. Especially in the aftermath of a big relapse I use to treat my negative emotional state with more unhealthy things.

And this is what happened to me yesterday: I pmo'd and failed here too.
Just another p-relapse for several hours and into the night. Nothing new. But still it dumbfounds me. Well, I know it's a chain of bad decisions that I have made myself, while the addiction swayed me to it and gave me tunnel vision. It's just a too well trained behavior. Anyways, enough of it. This is a threat about nutrition.
But I think the for both time is a very important factor. As you said, a slip up is fine. But as soon as it comes an on/off think and one never makes a significant streak then there's not enough momentum.

Yes, let's renew our commitments!

I commit myself to tenacious training. I need to do the steps, build a proper structure, keep coming back to it, then success will come. Let's get in that spiral of success and positive reinforcement soon!

 

Specifics

- I bought my favourite ice cream and 2 or 3 of it are left in my freezer. I'll ignore that I'll probably eat them sooner or later - doesn't count.

- at my workplace I want to go to the canteen only for lunch. That shall prevent me from buying coffee and sweets and also save money

- I'm thinking about buying a hand mixer for smoothies

 

I stopped buying sugar, but it's like jinxed, suddenly I'm getting sweets from everybody.
It's just not enough I need to stop it for real.
I commit to not eat any sweets until Eastern.

What about Eastern? I still need to decide.

 

I'm glad you're in, too. Let's do it!

 

I'm also saving money now. A healthy diet and saving money goes well together, as long as you don't want to eat all fancy all the time. It's more of a basic diet that I'm aiming at now.

So today I was quite frugal but I also bought chocolate pastry from a nice baker who sells his goods in the street. It was more like an event than pure satisfaction of my sweet-tooth. But later I thought: why? I didn't even talk with him this time and why do I still buy sweets??

Maybe it's ok to go not cold turkey immediately, although this, of course, is an excuse. Anyway, I want to go on like this, because I'm already doing quite well and I decided, that after Eastern I want to make the big cut. I need a strong commitment and I need to idenfify as a "sugatarian" from that day on.
Actually not after Eastern but on Easter Monday. That will be the day!

 

Saving money is a good approach and I'm still on track.
Today I ate a lot of chocolate after my relapse. Actually pmo "mode" and the after-effect is one major factor that make me break my resolutions and eat shitty.

I don't want to except that my f*ing addiction ruins everything. So my new approach is this: DESPITE relapsing, still eat healthy !

 

I plan for the next Monday (18.04.)
- to stop eating added sugars

and for the Monday one week later (25.04.)
- to stop consuming coffeine

until 31.06.