The approximate volume of water I've drunk this week
It's official! Lots of
fruit and water no sugar and hardly any wheat is good for you! My
skin is clearer, I feel lighter and less bleurgh (for want of a
better word). I'm not as tired in the mornings and feel generally
more alert. What's not to like!
Drinking litres of
water is easier at work, I have to be honest. There's a water cooler
and I just walk back and forth for most of the day, and then I walk
back and forth to the loo but lets gloss over that. Obviously eating
vast amounts off fruit and drinking ridiculous volumes of water with
have an effect on your, ah, digestive system but trust me when I say
it's a change for the better. Our scales are out of batteries at the
moment but I genuinely feel as though I've lost a bit of weight, even
if I haven't , I feel like I have so perhaps I wont bother getting
new batteries.
It's not as easy to
drink lots if I'm out and about – there is a lack of public toilets
and as we discussed in my last post, pelvic floor exercises not
withstanding, I really don't want to have to hold in a wee all the
way home from the town... On these sort of days I found myself
drinking gallons of water in the evening rather than pacing it
through the day. Now I don't think this is a major problem but I
think it would have been better to spread it out a bit more.
Eating less wheat has
forced us to be a bit more creative with our dinner choices as well;
we can't fall back on that old fail safe of pasta with sauce for 5
dinners out of 7. This has worked wonders for getting rid of the
scraggy vegetables which tend to linger floppily in the veg basket at
the end of the week – for a couple of vegetarians we really waste a
lot of fruit and veg...
The no sugar thing is
also coming along ok, I am still struggling to ignore and change old
habits and will still find myself rooting hopefully in the basket for
a forgotten biscuit but these events are fewer than at the start of
the week. I am noticing sugar cravings hit me if I'm feeling
emotional or stressed and it is harder to say no. There are a lot of
changes going on at my work which is leaving me feeling quite
unsettled, curbing the urge to inhale an entire packet of chocolate
digestives is taking a bit more willpower than I would like. But the
end gain is worth the struggle – having chucked sugar for three
weeks earlier in the year I definitely noticed a reduction in
enjoyment of sugar snacks when I had fallen off the wagon; things
just don't taste anywhere near as nice as you remember them tasting
and this knowledge is helping me stick to the plan this time round.
I don't want to crack and devour 40 biscuits only to continue to feel
empty and unsatisfied at the end.
These commitments are
something I am definitely going to continue – I think the results
even after a week, are pretty positive. I'm actually going to take a
photo each week to see if there is a difference in my skin and if I'm
feeling sufficiently brave, I might post the montage on here... This
weeks experiment has been a resounding success I'd say!
