It's Wednesday today and when we left off it was mid morning Monday.
I've still avoided coffee this week and have only slipped up once with something really sugary, that was last night, I had an icecream (it had to be eaten though so it wasn't there to tempt me when I move to phase 2). I've been eating relatively good meals including a beef roast and toasted Hawaiian wraps with caluiflower rice. I am becoming more and more aware of the sugars in everything and I think if all I get out if this in the end is this awareness that I now have then I think that's a pretty powerful thing. I've been drinking lots of tea/teeccino's which I'm getting a little bit tired of, I think I need to switch to citrus water for a little while. Today I'm feeling really tired and cloudy. A little bit unmotivated to be honest. I am considering coffee today but I think it might be because I haven't had anything decent to eat yet today. I have a dirty kitchen and can't bring myself to clean it so that I feel like preparing anything to eat yet! But once this update is done I will get off my butt and get to it! And I'm pretty sure I'm done so off I go.. To do something productive ;)
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Gentle transition...
This week I'm following the first week of Sarah Wilson's IQS (I quit sugar) program. I've also decided to quit coffee for now. This is something that I will hopefully live with for the rest of my time so therefore I'm being easy on myself and taking the time to transition gently and slowly. I'm going to keep a bit of an unstructured record of the journey here, a food diary and a health/wellness record.
Pre-IQS I've been feeling really tired, anxious, moody, unmotivated, emotional, bloated. I hope that along the way I feel less of these things and more of the positive states of being.
Sunday (day 1) I did skip my usual morning coffee. I had multigrain toast and vegemite. Followed by hot chips and tomato sauce for lunch. Then a couple of candy snakes and some lime & pepper chips as a snack. Dinner was crispy chicken wings with celery & carrots (takeaway). I drank tea or water. Obviously a few bad choices but that's ok, I'm ok with that.
Today (day 2) no coffee again, instead I had water this morning and then took a cup of black earl grey tea with me to school. Had to go to the shops after so I have just (at around 10am) had some vegemite and butter wholemeal toast and an added sugar free teeccino. I'm feeling a bit tired today, I have a slight headache (guessing caffeine withdrawal). But I still feel motivated and plan to go and do a bit of exercise (which I hope will motivated me to get started on the housework!)
I'm not sure yet what the rest of the day or even the week will bring. I hope to keep feeling positive about it all though.
Pre-IQS I've been feeling really tired, anxious, moody, unmotivated, emotional, bloated. I hope that along the way I feel less of these things and more of the positive states of being.
Sunday (day 1) I did skip my usual morning coffee. I had multigrain toast and vegemite. Followed by hot chips and tomato sauce for lunch. Then a couple of candy snakes and some lime & pepper chips as a snack. Dinner was crispy chicken wings with celery & carrots (takeaway). I drank tea or water. Obviously a few bad choices but that's ok, I'm ok with that.
Today (day 2) no coffee again, instead I had water this morning and then took a cup of black earl grey tea with me to school. Had to go to the shops after so I have just (at around 10am) had some vegemite and butter wholemeal toast and an added sugar free teeccino. I'm feeling a bit tired today, I have a slight headache (guessing caffeine withdrawal). But I still feel motivated and plan to go and do a bit of exercise (which I hope will motivated me to get started on the housework!)
I'm not sure yet what the rest of the day or even the week will bring. I hope to keep feeling positive about it all though.
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