The past couple of days have been really, really good since my milkshake incident. I was even able to keep my sugar count below 10 grams yesterday, which allowed me to eat some peanut butter M&M's. Though I'm trying to get out of the habit of "treating" myself with sweets. Not the healthiest chocolate snack, but it was movie date night with my husband and he picked those up forgetting about my sugar challenge. He earned some brownie points. Here's a picture of my 1/8 cup of M&Ms, which equaled 10 g of sugar. I added a tsp of peanut butter on top to increase the yumm factor while only adding .5 g of sugar.
I've been thinking about ways to cut sugar from my daily menu and thought I would share with you some of my solutions for when I am craving sugar or ways I'm choosing healthier options. . .
1. Drinking a huge glass of ice, cold water. So many times we may think we are hungry, but we are actually dehydrated.
2. Have a piece of fruit. My favorite lately has been grapefruit.
3. Exercise. Do 10 push-ups or sit-ups.
4. Playing with the kids.
5. Reading a book.
6. Singing along with the radio
7. Eat carrot sticks or any other kind of veggie.
8. Clean something. You know you've been procrastinating on that one.
9. Make popcorn.
10. Instead of syrup for you waffles, pancakes or french toast, make a fruit syrup. We use organic frozen blueberries. Place in saucepan on stove. Add 1 tbsp of water. Simmer, until fruit is hot. Smash and simmer some more. Then cool and place on top of breakfast.
The kids love it, it's fresh fruit and doesn't contain any refined sugar or corn syrup. Here's a pic.
1 comment:
Hi Erin,
As you can see I am now able to comment. I kept my sugar at 17 g yesterday and need to buy some dark chocolate for rewards.
xoxo
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