#dumb #junk #barf

So here's what I've eaten today: 2 cups of coffee with sugar and a splash of milk. 2 eggs with cheese on a toasted sandwich thin. A few ice cream samples. Dressing with a teeny bit of turkey. 4 sugar cookies with rainbow chip frosting. A corn dog. Coke zero with cherry and vanilla. And some fake pork rinds made from wheat instead of pig skin.
I am currently lying down feeling like I could barf at any minute and I just got rid of some of that 💩 I ate while the rest of it is floating around in my blood stream. I have learned my lesson. I'm never eating junk all day again. Ever! 🙊😩😷😲 #oops

Told ya I was a sugar addict. 4 sugar cookies with extra sugar spread on top ! Dumb. Please learn from me :)

Tomorrow!

I can't wait to enjoy these things tomorrow!!! My how I've missed you!


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Sugarrrrrrrr

This week... It was a piece of cake. I'm about to enjoy this. Happy birthday to my little cousin Raleigh Jo! Thanks for turning 1 so I can celebrate the completion of this week the right way.

Day 5

Friday

1 egg, 2 egg whites with cheese, salt & pepper, tortilla=breakfast burrito! I cut out 2 of the yolks because I entered in my food intake yesterday and my cholesterol intake was OVER! #oops Blame it on the egg yolks.

Lunch:

My sandwich was delicious... cajun turkey, a LARGE amount of mustard, and a slice of cheese!

Snack:

An adorable little pear from nature (then transported to Kroger)

Oh, also...I JUST now had coffee at 1:30. I didn't feel a huge need for the caffeine this morning and then I just started to crave the coffee (even though it sucks without sugar) so that's why I made some! i love coffee. forever.

Dinner:

It's date night and tonight's menu is Chicken Cordon Bleu with a green vegetable. I had Brussels Sprouts in a steamable bag so I was like yeah yo, I'll cook those. They're seasoned in some yummy looking sauce. 9 minutes into the microwaving process, I realized I should have checked the ingredients. Yeah. I should have checked the ingredients!!!!! First ingredient: sugar. Are you %*#$%^@ kidding me?! I hate you packaging people! I bought those long before this week so I wasn't looking for ingredients. Geeeez. The good thing is this is over at midnight so I can eat those and the cake my roommate made too. I probably won't though I hate eating late and I'm drinking beer. 

So the Chicken Cordon Bleu is breaded. The bread crumbs I have contain sugar as like the 53rd ingredient. I would have felt very guilty to buy more and there weren't any that contained no sugar anyway. I did buy these to enjoy as a snack and I used them as my bread crumbs as well. 

Genius. I know. They even smell like the Italian bread crumbs that I have! #winning. I only had enough left for 2 things of chicken so I made the rest with the regular bread crumbs so that I can eat those tomorrow. Two is enough anyway. Portion control!! So basically all I'm having for dinner is 2 little ass pieces of chicken cordon bleu 

and 3 of the following:

 Pretty sure there's no sugar in this. Thanks to Mr. T who researched that up. 

On to drinking and date night. I may or may not blog at midnight with photos of the possible cake that I eat, depends on my state of mind. :)

Okay I'm back. I knew there was something fishy about a BEER having NO SUGAR in it. You can't find ingredients anywhere. Nobody wants you stealing their recipe. It's a fluke. There's sugar in here. I have cheated. This only means I must do this all over again. #failure. 

A Week Without Sugar

When I first heard of this challenge, I feared it immensely.  However, now on the fifth day, I realize the challenge wasn't much of a challenge. Also, I genuinely liked the way I have felt all week.

What I have found challenging is physically removing sugar from my diet. Sugar is added to almost everything! I was amazed at the effort that is made towards sneaking sugar into prepackaged foods.  Terms like "Pure Cane Extract" and "100% Cane Juice" were very amusing. It made me wonder how busy families shop in a healthy manner.  Not wanting to drown their families in sugar, I can understand how terms like that are overlooked because we're looking for "Sugar" or "Corn Syrup".  Hence, my major complaint of the week: Sugar is in everything!

What have I learned from this challenge? I consume entirely too much sugar. I now understand that the energy I get from sugar is minimal and not at all worth it.  Now, after I push myself via workout or running I am not more tired than when I consume sugar, but more absolute. Here's an example; While consuming large amounts of sugar, once tired, I would generally watch television until I eventually drift off to sleep. This week, I barely get out the words "I'm tired" and I'm dead asleep. My quality of sleep has improved as well.  Last, but certainly not least, my energy has improved. I can push myself to new levels while maintaining for longer periods of time. Last night was an all time high. I worked with great intensity for approximately 4 hours. I was impressed with myself to say the least.

The result: I will never consume as much sugar as I once did. Now that I know what and what not to purchase, I can make better nutritional decisions. We do not have to consume as much sugar as we do on a regular basis. Sugar is now a treat, not a necessity...

vcf

Day 4 for Cara

It was scrambled eggs and Ezekiel toast for breakfast again. Oh and crap coffee. Lunch has been awesome! I really like the Boar's Head turkey.


I had a banana and some pop chips for snack. And I made a delish dinner too!


Chipotle Shrimp and quinoa pasta. It was pretty flipping amazing! For dessert, I had a serving of Naked Juice Blue Machine.

As I said before....the drinks have been the hard part. I want a refreshing beverage. Something sweet and sparkling. Bubbly. Oh and this taunts me every time I walk by it.


I've missed pretzels.....

But other than that! I'm really digging the change! It's forcing me to eat SUPER clean! And I'm getting in my three fruits a day for sure! My body wants those natural sugars!!!

Day 4

Thursday

We had a meeting this morning for work and Hardee's biscuits were provided. FO FREE. So I took a bacon egg and cheese and a sausage biscuit back to my desk and looked up the ingredients for each one.Garbage. Delicious garbage. WHYYY why must crap taste soo good? The only thing in those two biscuits that didn't contain any added sugar was the egg and cheese. So I ate the egg. The cheese was sort of glued to the biscuit so it was pointless to even try. Dumb. I've never been a big fan of Hardee's concoctions. I do love their breakfast and have always been a big fan of that...like once a year. The way the food is advertised is just so nasty. I've emailed them before telling them how disgusting their commercials are. Here are the ingredients for the biscuits I picked out. Don't strain your eyes and brain by reading all of those big words. There are several. Click HERE to see all other Hardee's ingredients.And just know, you're only a Google search away from know what's in the fast food that you choose to eat!

Bacon
Pork cured with Water, Salt, Sugar, Natural or Hickory Smoke
Flavoring, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite.

Biscuit, ScratchButtermilk
Cultured Fat Free Milk, Nonfat Dry Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt,
Locust Bean Gum, Carrageenan, Mono and Diglycerides, Vitamin A
Palmitate and Vitamin D3 added.
Biscuit Mix
Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron,
Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Partially Hydrogenated
Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil), Contains less than 2% of the
following: Salt, Sugar, Monocalcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum
Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Whey, Sodium Bicarbonate, Soy Lecithin.
Biscuit Flour
Enriched bleached Flour (Wheat flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine
Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Salt, Sodium Bicarbonate,
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Anhydrous.
Margarine, Liquid (for basting tops of biscuits)
Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Vegetable
Mono and Diglycerides, Soybean Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate and
Citric Acid, Artificial and Natural Flavors, Beta Carotene, Vitamin A
Palmitate

Cheese, American (breakfast)
Cultured milk, Water, Cream, Sodium Citrate, Salt, Sodium Phosphate,
Sorbic Acid (preservative), Artificial Color, Acetic Acid, Enzymes,
Lecithin (soy).

Eggs – scrambled or folded
Whole Eggs, Citric Acid, 0.15% water added as carrier for Citric Acid,
Citric Acid added to preserve color.

Sausage Patty (pork)
Pork, Salt, Spices, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate.

I had some raspberries and coffee, too. 

Lunch: banana, green goodness juice, half a pouch of salmon, brown & wild rice with broccoli and carrots, and more coffee!

My roommate made a cake. There are no words. I promise I didn't cheat though but at 12:00 AM Saturday morning I'm taking a piece!

I have tears in my eyes on verge of crying because I don't feel well and all I want is comfort food and the sugarless mashed potato flakes I have require milk and I don't have any milk and it just feels extra awful right now. Ah. #thankyou

I found my comfort in some Simply Natural white cheddar puffs and some skim milk. My belly is now satisfied and I am a happy camper :).

Also, I found some sugarless bubbly! Too bad they didn't have lemon lime orange, it could have been somewhat similar to diet mt. Dew.....