OK, Here it is the no sugar challenge. I pledge to have no sugar today! Anyone with me?

I am in Sharon....NO SUGAR TODAY! :o

Hi Sharon,
Count me in also. Starting at 4:30 today SB time. No sugar from now on!!

How are you doing sweetie ? Haven't seen much of you and I miss your smiling face and stories about what your children are doing? Did you get your kitchen finished yet? How are your plants doing aand are they growing?

Ok I will give you time to answer.

Have a super day!!
Love and hugs,
Lizzie

Glad to see you guys joining me! Actually got to the library twice today so here I am. Still SF and will stay that way thru the night. I may get here tomorrow but if not, keep the challenge going for me.

Me too...I am on board the SF train! I know my body will appreciate abstinance from that stuff. Today........I will have none.
Bren

Day Two

:down: with :cake: ~ :up: with :dc !

Oh Sharon I like that! Down with cake and up with carrots! LOL! I didn't have sugar yesterday but I did have some honey/applesauce cake so I will count that as sugar. BUT...it's gone and will be no more and I did say NO about 3 times yesterday to the call of candy. So I'm getting there!
Bren

Day 3 and sugar free we be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yippee yahooty..."no sugar today in my coffee, no sugar today in my tea.....no sugar to stand beside me..no sugar to run with me"....anyone old enough to remember that tune?
I've been flying around all day and am headed to bed so stayed on plan. Mom's back in the hospital and I went to Albany to pick up some things for her and hit a hail storm.
I'm very tired and very ready for bed!
Night night all!
Bren

Hi Angels,

Just now got back on line from being off since 6 am this morning!! My pc crashed hard!! Took all day to repair and restore everything! Yikes I have a headache!!!!!!!!

No sugar today or yesterday and none tomorrow!!!!!!!!!! Whooppieeeeeeeeee

Love and hugs,
Lizzie

Awesome Lizzie!! And Sharon! Woohoo! We can and will do this and we will benefit greatly from it!
OH nO! The computer crash........Bummer! I am so glad you're back up and running! We must have these machines!
Here's to a fabulous, Sugar Free weekend!...... :cheers:

Day4 and we'll be better than before!!!!!!!!!

It doesn't matter what day you are on just come and join us.

I am giving my self a :ribbon: since I was at Six Flags Great Adventure yesterday and spent the last 1/2 hr. in the candy store with every kind of candy imaginable including fudge and I didn't have a bite.

Make it a good day!

Well I found you guys and I'm really intimidated. You're all doing so well. I don't think I can go without sugar for 4 hours let alone 4 days but it's a damn good idea. Hmmmm she hears Lizzie saying 'You need to require more of yourself' :)

But but but I say. What about the yummy afghans biscuits I made. There's still some left and I can't bear to throw them out. I'm one of these awful people who binge the day before I diet :whip:

I shall go bury my anguish in some study, meanwhile can I borrow someone's self control?

Hi all! Woohoo Sharon! By golly you've got it! I had day 2 yesterday, no sugar and the candy at the office just whispered once to me. Yikes..half an hour in a candy store! You deserve your medal!
Oh...that was a song I was referring to......it was a rock and roll song from like the 60's......"dooten do dow,dow dooten dow dow"....or some such silly refrain.....much like "crimson and clover, over and over"..what in the debil wuz that all about? No sugar in my coffee or tea, tho Spenda is superb! I can't use equal or it's equivalent due to the Meniere's symtoms.

Sweetpea........it will take doing your 4 hours first, which can lead to 4 more hours. If you plan ahead and avoid preparing some yummies....ie say "for TODAY......I will make and eat no yummies". LOL!
I, and most of us, have a major problem if the stuff is in the house. After dinner is when I want yummies (sweet stuff) and if I had a cat to cuddle I just know it would help. But can have no kitty...so I will just not bring it home. I have SF/FF pudding and SF jello, as well as my fruit, I can use if I want and will plan it into my meals.
Hey...the Meniere's is very nasty! These girls have been with me thru two years of relapses and hard times. Way cool..looking it up so you'd know what I was talking about. the net has been an awesome tool for me during the past 3 years or so I've had it for that very purpose! Investigation!

Day 5 and it is great to be alive! OK I am still sugar free but I have to admit that I ate a whole package of sf/ff pudding. So with sugar free I also have to watch the portions.

Sweetpea I used to like you and I couldn't throw any food out. But once I heard isn't it a waste if you eat it and don't want it or it will hurt you. As far as I am concerned my stomach is no different than a garbage sometimes. It's not like the junk food it is worth anything. Whatever you do is fine just trying to tell you what works for me.

We don't have the same range of SF/FF stuff here. We're a small country and I live rural but I will look around I know there's some Weight Watchers products at the supermarket

So far today so good. Of course it's only 5am. Got up and had water with aloe juice which is much yummier than it sounds! I've made a litre of herbal tea to sip on during the day. As it is sweet without sugar it often helps keep the sugar cravings away. Still can't bear to throw out the afghans or the chocolate but will try doing the morning to 12 noon and then set a new goal for the afternoon

Sweetpea sets forth with an ounce more determination that she had yesterday...

Sheesh! You see fat and sugar, I see brain food and cheer me up food. I wish I could equate chocolate with diabetes, heart problems and obesity but after I did my finances and discovered I'm going to be short for a payment I have to make in August I gobbled chocolate and some cookies. Thoughts about fat on my hips never entered my mind!

Am officially resigning from the sugar free challenge. May try again when life is a tad smoother. Good luck and well done everyone

Day three down and out.......no cravings at all today and am so thankful!

Day six and no ice cream licks!!!!!!!(unless it is sugar free of course)

OK,I am doing great on this no sugar thing and will keep plugging along. I think I may do it for thirty days and see if it becomes a habit and then I will work on another aspect of my eating.

Make it a good one all!

Morning Angels,

Well I did fine until Saturday. I was seduced by Strawberry Avalanche Ice cream. DH bought ice cream himself and grandson but I ate some too. My rational was I won't feel deprived if I eat just one HUGE CUP FULL I mean a very small serving!

Then after I ate it I started thinking well I am can eat anything I want in moderation. Well NO YOU CAN NOT!! I decided that I need to lay off certain foods because I have been giving my self the privilege of eating what I like. At 257 I need to not feel so privileged. I will not die from depriving myself of certain foods
for a while. So that is my goal to stay away from my privileged food treats.

Actually all I said was Yep I am in!!

Hi sweetpea,
How you doing ?? There is no problem resigning from this challenge. You know best what you cah do and what you can not. I know that when you are ready no one will stop you from accomplishing all your goals. In the meantime don't make your self sick trying to change all at once. You need to take care of you first!

Now I am going to daily thread to see all I have missed.

Hey Sharon,
Goooooooooooooood job!! You go girl!!

Hi bren,
Good for you toooooooooooooo!! Would you believe my family ate 1 gallon of ice cream in one day?? Well no more ice cream for another month!! Me I get skinny cow from now on!!

Love and hugs,
Lizzie :ghug:

Bren,
When you said that you were aboard the SF train, I thought you meant that you were aboard the San Francisco train. I was like wow how cool your here in California. But then I realized that was sugar freen train lol

your all are doing so well with your sf missions.

take care! Katherine

Hi Katherine! How funny! I never thought of that! The SF train! We did the van and the wagon and now we have a train..all city stop, comes right to your door!
Yay..day 4 down and what I marvel at is tha ifn not feeding the cravings, they lessen and fairly quickly. I am thankful for that and will take recovery however it comes!

Yep Lizzie, I have to leave the ice cream alone too. Three weeks ago or so when I started my personal challenge, I'd eaten a half gallon in one day and that was my get real moment. Yes it's delish but it's a binge food for me and I can't have it in here.
Gotta run.......I'll be back

Have a blessed day angels!
Bren

Day 7 and it isn't exactly heaven but like Bren says it is getting easier.

Hi Angels,
Well I am still here and still staying away from sugar except for the sugar that is occurring naturally in fruits and veggies. Have you looked at labels lately and all the canned everything that contains some sugar or salt!! So I must say I am staying away from all sweets plus adding no sugar to anything. If any food contains more than 20 mg sugar then I don't eat it period. Guess I can not say I don't have any sugar but enough to keep my blood levels normal.

SF Train is roaring past!! All aboard!!!!!!!!!!! I have never been on a train so this should be fun!!!!!!!!!!

You guys are doing great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ice cream omg who invented that stuff and why? I know was probably a trigger food for him!!

Have a great day!!

Love and hugs,
Lizzie

Day 8 and I ate.

Hi guys I got Geenen, Roth's book "Feeding The Hungry Heart" actually it is on tape. I am going to be working on finding out the reasons why I started this habit and work on my emotional issues. I will not be dieting anymore or eliminating food groups even if it is sugar. I will let you know how it goes.

So I won't be keeping this forum up but I wish you guys luck with it. Wow Lizzie you really are getting real with it. Good for you.

Make it a good one all.
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Hi Sharon,
I am so glad to see you stop in and state how you feel and what you are changing. Mind if an old lady that loves you like a sis or daughter says something? I am going to say something anyway and if you perfer not than tell me to go fly a kite.

I have noticed over time that you really get going on a specific goal and then when you behave just like a human and do not perform with perfection you throw in the towel and go on a leave of not dieting or what ever the case maybe. Sweetie I think perfection is something we all will never to achieve and it is not realistic.

You have so many fine qualities going for you and I would really hate to see you change them. You are a wonderful mother and a true friend. Besides having all the attributes that other envy like being honest,compassionate,humorous,
determined, friendly just to name a few.

Sure we all have emotional issues and we will all work them out and so will you. You already have come so far and you will accomplish all the goals you set out to accomplish.

Right now is when you need to be here the most and not go away when the tough times come. That is why I am here to give you support in the tough times of self evaluation and heart searching. I hope you will stay with us and let us be here for you while you take a look at you.

So what if you ate last night! You are only human and if you could do everything "right" then you wouldn't be here in the first place. Please give it some thought and I hope to see you here later or tomorrow.

Love and hugs,
Lizzie

Perhaps that is part of the cycle. You feel guilty because you think you failed and you only want people to see you being successful. So you withdraw until you feel successful again. You are a success you just don't know it yet!!!

Ditto Sharon..on Lizzies post.
You are a vital, loving, giving, compassionate lady and we gain so much from your participation and input.
I have had six days now sugar free and would not have stepped up for this particular challenge had someone not iniated it.....that happened to be you. And yep....we all slip and slide and fall all the way down somedays but hey.......we get up and go again.
There are no soft, easy ways to do this....hey we've all looked countless times!

I intend to stay on board and if I choose to have sugar it will be a consious choice and I will not start over with day one..I will have.... say, sixteen days and a sidestep....then right back on track. Having it or not having it doesn't make us a failure or success. It's the accumilation of positive choices for positive results and the daily choices that we make for recovery that count most.
I know I feel so much better already and once the cravings take a hike and my system is clean, I will have increased energy for life and that is an awesome feeling and goal!!

Love and huggers......gotta get ready for work! have a blessed day!
Bren

Good Morning All,

I am not leaving! I appreciate all your comments but I think you missed my point. I am not giving up on dieting or eating more healthy I just am not giving up sugar right now or eliminating any food groups from my diet thus I am not doing the challenge. I am glad it helped people and don't feel badly over it. I will be in the weekly thread. I didn't slip. Like you said Bren I made a conscious choice to have the sugar and don't feel like I am starting all over. I feel like it is a process and I am finding my way and works for me. I am trying to work on the emotional issues that got me to this point and will keep me here unless I deal with them. Much like Dr. Phil says though I am just using someone elses work.

Thanks for all your thoughts and caring.

OK, I just went back again and read my original post and see where the confusion may be. I said I was leaving the forum refering to the challenge. I never know what they are called I meant I was leaving the thread. I always use those two, forum/thread interchangeably and they are different things.

Make it a good one.

Omg Sharon you must think I am an idiot! Well sometimes I am. Ok most of the time. Alright all the time!! Gee I feel goofy. I went back and reread the post too and yes I should have read it more carefully. Well you know we love you very much and I would be heart broken if you left. You have been a part of my life for a long long time and I would miss you a lot. Please forgive my mistake.

Think I will see if can get :foot: make that both :foot: out of my mouth!!

Love and big hugs,
Lizzie

No need to apologize Lizzie it was the way I wrote it saying I was leaving the thread as I explained. I am glad you guys were on top of things like you are. If I was giving up I would want/need just the reponse you and Bren gave!

Hey girls! Glad "we" got that straightened out! I say "we" 'cuz I am here!
Whew...take a deep breath!
WOO hoo...I have now had 7 days and I am so happy I must dance....July 3rd. Right now I am much too weary! LOL! I did get lots of rest at work yesterday and good sleep last night but bad dreams.
Hang on kids........a hill ahead!

Hey bren,
Darn I have way too many fingers to type. You would not believe all the arrows I mean errors I make.

Anyway I am still not adding any sugar or eating dessert or stuff like that. I am consuming the normal amounts you find in foods but not adding any. Blood sugar was high this am but had forgotten to tak my meds and had eatena bagel. Bagels tend to make my bs go up.

Good for staying away from sugar and SALT!!!

Now I am off again!!

Love and hugs,Lizzie

Me too Lizzie..have ya noticed how my keyboard misses the i in your name and mis-spells stuff. It's your keyboard..trust me!
I am on the low sodium plan as well.have to be and I don't add much as everything has quite enough but I am having pretty much what I want, just less of it.
A lot of my everyday things have sugar as well...catsup/ketchup, etc. and I will keep eating that...it's a veggie, right?
I feel much better when I avoid my trigger foods.....which are normally high carb/high fat and high sugar content. I am making the choice each day and am really aware when I choose to use! I had honey on my toast at breakfast yesterday and a small packet of grape jam. The rest of the day, no sugar. We are making good progress and I am determined to finish the race!
I'll c-ya elsewhere my friend!!
Bren

Hi Bren,

I have to admit I am not 100% on the sugar train but then that is impossible. But I am not eating any junk food like I want to. Chips and French onion dip sound real good. Then I can look like a blow up doll and aggravate every health issue I have!! I am going to bake a blackberry pie for my sis and I when she gets here and the berries are ripe. I will use splenda and low fat crust!

Well anyway I am going go fix cinnamon rolls for everyone for breakfast. Just kidding!!! I fix cinnamon rolls and only I will eat them. So no way!!

Have a great day sweetie.

Love and hugs,
lizzie

Hanging on and flapping in the wind from the end of the train.....ok.....I'm on! Imay have had a small craving yesterday, I was too tired to acknowledge it! I am still doing very well and am so thankful for each day I don't fall face first into the pastries! LOL! Oh.......now I am hungry! LOL!

Hi bren,
Morning GF!! I tell ya I am so bruised and cut from falling off the SF Train that it is disgusting!! Well not only I fall off I also walked back into the moving train. Talk about your train wrecks~

Hubby brought 16 quarts of strawberries yesterday and about 4 packages of shortcakes. Wonder what he was thinking!!!!!!!! Even bought cool whip to top it off. Guess what I ate?????

Now I have to double up my exercise because. Actually they weren't to bad. The cool whip he bought for me was lite and strawberries are not fattening but the sugar and biscuits are. There was only a small amount of sugar used but still it was sugar.
So I am starting over today with my limited sugar intake.

Oh the rest of the strawberries are cleaned bagged and in the freezer or December !! Don't you love to have things out o season. Nothing taste better than home made strawberry shortcake with my own shortcakes in the dead of winter.

Have great day sweetie!!!!!!!

Love and hugs
,Lizzie

June 16 exercise

Laps 25
push offs 40
WATP 1/2 tape

Doing great outside with the walking I did the laps in 3 different walks! My end goal is to do 25 all at once.

Getting stronger!!!!!!!!!

Love and hugs,
Lizzie

June 19,

Looks like I posted the exercise in the worng place. Oh well won't be the last time!!

I think I have taken the sugar train as far as I can go. I am not 100% sugar free all the time. There is just to much sugar every where. So I think this is my last post on this thread! About the only thing I use sugar on is cereal and that is a about a teaspoon.

So good by s train!!

Lizzie