I had to give up sodas & sugar before my gastric bypass surgery. That was more difficult than the actual surgery. I recently had a sip of a Coke and it was horrendous. After not having had one for just over 3 years, it tasted NOTHING like I remembered.
I still do love my diet peach Snapple.
VCNJ~
48 hours and holding! Whoohoo! (Hey, take the successes when you can find them, I say.)
For the first time in…well, probably forever, I’m drinking unsweetened iced-tea. It’s okay, but I’m drinking a lot less of it than when it had sugar added.
Yesterday, while I was at work, Hallboy took all the sugar items I’d gathered from the pantry, to the trash. I’d forgotten (?) the cans of Coke in the fridge, so he poured every single one of them down the drain before putting the cans into the recycling bin.
I went grocery shopping this morning and was dismayed to find that soy milk (which I was going to use to make fruit smoothies) has cane sugar added to it! I did manage to find some unsweetened soy milk, but it was a struggle. Who would have thought that soy milk has added sugar? (Probably not technically “processed” sugar that I was thinking of–the -ose sugars like high fructose corn syrup–but sugar just the same.) At the end of an hour shopping sesssion (and of reading ALL the labels, including a couple of juices I did find without added sugars), Hallboy said, “Well, that took forever.”
It’s going to be a long weekend…
I don’t know if you’ve ever tasted unsweetened soy milk… well, its kind of disgusting. (JMHO). There is a brand that is artificially sweetened its called Soy Slender.
However rice milk is more naturally sweet than soy milk. “Edenblend” is a commonly available mix of rice and soy milk – and it contains no added sugar.
Just an update…
Good news on the sugar front—the cravings have almost completely gone!!! (two weeks today). I don’t crave Coke anymore (that took about 10 or 12 days) and about the only thing I’d like to have now is occasionally some dark chocolate. (I haven’t given in yet though.) The other night, I thought I wanted something sweet, so I made a soy vanilla shake (unsweetened vanilla soy milk, vanilla extract, ice-cubes) and added a bit of cocoa powder, and it worked. (The shake was pretty grossly weird to begin with when I first started making them, but they’ve grown on me.) I go to the doctor’s tomorrow, so I’ll see how much weight I’ve lost on their scales. (According to mine, I’ve lost about 11 lbs. in two weeks.) I’ve deliberately not exercised because I wanted to see how fast the weight would drop once I stopped eating sugar.
I noticed yesterday that my stomach is flatter, no bloating (probably due to no soda), and it seems like there was swelling in my legs, because they look thinner. When I first started out, I was eating a ton of fruit and carbs (pasta, potatoes, crackers), but that’s pretty much lessened (especially the carbs, since I was never a big carb eater anyway).
I never thought the cravings would go away, and there were times when I would have given my left arm for a Coke, but I’m glad they’re over.
Congratulations!
I just saw this thread as I’m out the door for the weekend, but I’m very impressed, and I wanted to throw that out there.