This pledge began a month ago when I was traveling home to visit family and found myself consuming large amounts of sugar along the way. The first night I got home I sat down and decided something needed to change. And thus this list was born.
Let's look closer at each one and see how I've done at sticking to it!
1) I can say that I stuck to this one 100%. Every time I made something that required a sweetener, I used honey or maple only.
2) I can say that I was taught to make bagels by my uncle while I was home. I made another batch when I got back. Both had light corn syrup, but in a trivial amount so I feel like I did good on this goal also.
3) Ok, this one was a bit iffy. I have been nibbling on organic chocolate (Like 2 squares of a bar a day) and one of them did have some corn syrup (bought before the pledge). And I have a box of natural PBCookies at home with sugar at the bottom, but I believe that is really it.
4) This on I can happily say I stuck to 100% !
5) I broke this once - at an ice cream shop in Austin - but the ice cream was in store made. I still know that it was pretty loaded with sugar. The gelato I had in Houston does not break the rules because I knew what it had in it and it's a once a month thing.
6) Good thing natural sugars are ok, because I've been eating lots of fruit (and even making my own ice cream with fruit and coconut milk)
7) This was an easy one because I never consumed that crap before anyway. I am happy to report I have not had a single mocha/coffee drink since this started.
8) Ok..... This didn't go so well. I haven't had nearly as much beer or wine this last week, but weeks prior were not good. I am definitely watching this goal during August
9) I had one mixed drink last week - a wine/soda mixture. Definitely regretted that later.
10) Overall, I think I did good. :)
BONUS:
Ok the eating out thing still bit me in the butt. I didn't eat desert ever, and I tried to stick to mostly at home meals, but when you have a little extra money and really just don't want to cook, a taco sounds really good. I am hoping that once I get moved (this month!) I can get back to really watching my eating out consumption.
So I'm giving my self a B+ for the month, mostly because of the beer and couple breaking days. I can happily say, though, that I have no plans for awhile on going back to Dairy Queen/Sonic/McDonalds for ice cream or drinking mochas. My body feels so much better! But, as mentioned in a previous post, that may be the lack of dairy.
This coming month I am going to watch my alcohol and eating out. I work out 5-times a week and I know that if I could just watch my consumption on those two things I could actually lose a couple pounds without counting calories.
What do you think? Is this cleanse a dumb idea? Would you follow these rules? Any other rules I should add? Sound off!
~Lisa
~Lisa
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