The things I learned for a week on the detox.
*Its HARD!: You don't realize how many things you eat in a day that are just your go to snacky items that have sugar or something else that's a "no-no" for the Sugar Detox. yes there is more than just sugar.
*I was hungry: I was pretty much hungry from Wednesday afternoon on. I know I wasn't eating enough of something, but I just couldn't ever figure out what that was!
*Read labels: the biggest thing is that reading labels is a good thing! Sometimes you don't realize what you are putting into your body, and your kids too!
*Bread is crazy in my gut: This sounds outrageous after just a week, but bread is killer on me! You are supposed to give up all wheat and pastas and breads ect for this detox. While that is next to impossible at our house where bread IS a food-group, I did it. And now, let me tell you, a half hour after eating bread my gut in in flip flop mode. Its not horrible, but its enough to make me wonder. So over the weekend I tested it out and sure enough each time I had bread with a meal I could feel it later.
WILD!!?? I think so!
*Headaches: I have headaches. All the time. Its more like a "oh its 2:00 headache time" Thats about how my life has gone for months, maybe years. I just deal with it and either drink lots of water or give in and carry Tylenol to grab whenever I need it. The Sugar Detox literature says that the first week you may experience headaches and flu like symptoms. So I was preparing myself for it. Luckily (insert sarcasm here) Tuesday I went to the doctor to find I had a sinus infection. So my flu like symptoms pry got drown out by the meds I am now on! However, I didn't experience one headache! Which was baffling to me because I always have them!
Since the weekend I've noticed that after I eat, lets say pizza, I come home and I get the ache in my gut as well as a headache forming. This afternoon we went to Tasos with my family for lunch, I had a horrible headache after eating my grilled cheese there.
It's so wild that I'm going to work extra hard to eat as little of/and try to cut out bread from my diet. I'm going to try some gluten free pasta, because lets be real here.. pasta is like a food-group as well!
SO - while I horribly failed at the 21 Days of Sugar Detox, I learned just enough to keep me going forward trying to eat better and cook better for my family.
And someday I'll try it again when my chicken I baked hadn't gone bad forcing me to have NOTHING planned for my meals for 3 days and just knowing what else to cook... what do you put with a meal if it isn't bread?! (Thats hubby's constant question to me... we're bread people..)
I very highly recommend you checking out Diane Sanfilippo's information because she KNOWS what she's talking about!
Check out the 21 Day Sugar Detox site here -- http://www.the21daysugardetox.com/
Her website is called Balanced Bites -- http://balancedbites.com/ and I just got her book Practically Paleo which is FULL FULL FULL of so much information AND wonderful recipes!
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