Cutting Down Alcohol Thread

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Good luck and please post every day. It works.

Honey_Bear wrote: »

Added sugar, CathyBird. I'm still addicted to sugar and I know it - if I buy myself a box of Malte$ers as a treet I can't stop eating them until the box is empty. And the same with a T3rry's choc orange - one session and it's gone. So for me, fruit is fine - I'm never tempted to eat a whole bag of apples! - but added sugar is absolutely not. No sugar on strawberries, no honey, nothing. And yesterday I decided that carbs aren't helping me one bit, so they're off the menu until this weight is gone.

Having said that, I'm at this for a few events over the course of 10 days and it's really easy to get chatting with lovely people coming out of a talk, which almost always ends up with going to tea/coffee and cake. I've been taking my own food when I'm there all day but yesterday OH joined me for two talks in the evening and we had dinner in between. I was very good and took the batter off the fish but the chips were fab, as was the sticky toffee pudding, and I think I may have had half a slice of chocolate cake :whistle: with him when he arrived in the afternoon as well. Not one of my better days and I'm not going to weigh myself until a few days after the festival is over.

I am, however, going to be carb and sugar-free until this spare tyre is gone because even losing a kilo I can feel the difference and it feels, okay felt, fab. It's only for a few weeks because if I don't over-indulge with boxes of chocolates or a handful of Twinks every single day, my weight doesn't fluctuate that much.

I have a 5kg bag of sugar in the store cupboard for when I make jam, marmalade and chutneys. It's really, really heavy when I pick it up and that's the excess me that I'm dragging around all the time. Pointless. It's got to go.

cathybird wrote: »

While I was out drinking with my mate the other night and we were both trollied she informed me drunkenly that I really should lose 10kg :rotfl::rotfl: so that's good to know, I would have said 5kg myself as I'm not that chunky (honest), and to be fair she was talking about herself but just kindly including me in on it ha ha, but I've got a sweet tooth I struggle to deal with, and so am trying to severely minimise sugar myself. Don't know if I should mention this but M*nt*zum*'s do chocolate with no added sugar of any kind (no artificial sweeteners either, 100% chocolate), which I am finding really helps because it has that chocolate thing going on but is very dense and I can't eat that much of it. I'd like to make that my preferred chocolate on a permanent basis, in fact. I'd also like to be fairly low-carb as a general principle but it is tricky - happy to forgo rice and pasta, and indeed other grains, but the thought of never eating bread or potatoes I just find mildly depressing. I might just try to minimise those things, rather than give them up altogether.

The thing is last I looked the thinnest and longest-lived people on earth, statistically speaking, were the Japanese and they eat quite a bit of white rice - not as much as is widely assumed but carbs do figure in their diet. Also the Scandinavians don't seem to have an obesity problem and they eat loads of bread (mostly rye, it has to be said) and also potatoes. So that makes me wonder how low you really need to go with carbs, just as a matter of general principle. Anyway, just thinking aloud here.