With the exception of like half a box of After Eight on New Years eve because I really felt like stuffing myself, abunch of pieces of christmas toffees and two semlas the other day, I haven’t eaten sugar since mid August. When you don’t eat sugar it takes like a week or two before the want for it goes away. After that you never really feel like having it at all and do not miss it. At least that’s what it’s been like for me. So it’s an easy habit to break really, if you can just  stand the urge for the first couple of weeks.
The hard parts so far have been pretty much none, I’d say. I have not been super purist and refused sugars in foods, and of course I eat fruit sugars so it’s not hard socially (definitely harder than being vegan though! people are pushier about wanting you to eat sugar from my experience. And swedish fika is so social, way more social than animal consumption)
An interesting thing is that what used to not taste like sugar, such as smoothies, start to taste really fantastical when your taste buds aren’t numbed by ordinary sugar all the time. And another good thing is that you never ever miss it once it’s out of your system, the times I have eaten sugar in the past after quitting have only been after social pushing, not because I couldn’t resist the sugar urge.

How to not eat sugar:
1. Decide you don’t want it.
2. When you feel like sugar make a smoothie with berries, soy milk & banana instead.
3. Stick to it (haha, easy to say) Don’t cheat too often or you’ll get hooked. (though cheat sometimes or life’d be boring)

4 comments to “Sugar Sugar Sugar”

  1. Poppy skriver:

    I quit eating sugar a couple of years ago – I was physically addicted to it, and it was very, very difficult to give up. You’re right, natural things start to taste so much better once you give up refined things! I’ve also found that I no longer like really fake sweet things, they just taste bleh to me.

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  2. Leslie skriver:

    I know what you mean. I have my occasional sweet fix, but I have noticed after cutting back on these things that I don’t really crave them as I use to and they don’t taste as good as I remember.
    I try to go for dark chocolate or something better for me, although I did have a slice of cake tonight.

    You know I use to drink tons of sugar in my coffee and tea and now drink them black with a splash of cream. The idea of adding sugar seems like it would ruin it now. Really funny how sugar can really get hold of you like that. Everything in moderation.

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  3. Amelia skriver:

    I still eat a lot of sugar (I work in a candy store!)
    but I try and do it in moderation.
    I’ve found that things are very very very
    sweet to me now that used to not be
    sweet when I was not vegan.

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