To sugar free or not to sugar free?

I’m thinking about quitting sugar. I’ve recently downloaded and read Sarah Wilson’s “I Quit Sugar” eBook and, quite frankly, the benefits of removing sugar from my diet seem rather remarkable.

I love food, I LIVE for food. I’ve often said that if I was told I had 24 hours to live I wouldn’t say goodbye to anyone, I would just spend the entire time eating. That may be a teensy bit of an overstatement but I just love food! I love eating, I love cooking, I love food magazines, I love meal planning, even love grocery shopping!

Sugar is a pretty staple ingredient in my house. We aren’t exactly sugar nutters, we eat very little cakes and very few of our foods have added sugar, however the evils of sugar lurk in majority of the foods we consume. Fruit is where we consume most of our sugar, especially my beautiful baby boy.

I have two main problems with quitting sugar:

1. My beautiful baby boy loves, loves, LOVES fruit. Bananas are our “go to” food, and he just adores apples and pears. I have no idea what I could replace these with; and

2. It seems quite limiting. For a person who loves to cook and try new recipes I find it beyond irritating to have a restriction on the ingredients I am “allowed” to use. I’m not really a meat-and-three-veg kind of girl either.

So I’m on the fence…. on one hand, quitting sugar will do wonders for my body, brain and (I’m hoping) skin. On the other hand, I just don’t WANT to give up sugar, I like it too much and my son likes it too….

What to do, what to do.

Le Love List #31

This week I am loving:

• STATE OF ORIGIN!!! F*ck yeah! I was lucky enough to get tickets to the State of Origin, Game II in Sydney and we pretty much had the best time ever. The game was amazing, the crowd was amazing, the train was amazing and the seats were, well they were OK. Did you watch it? If you didn’t and you like NRL you should download it and watch it now, it really was a fantastic game

  

• Looking like a complete dork and feeling great about it :)

Wearing a new bra and a new skirt and feeling oh-so-fine

Catching up with old friends and realising just how much you missed them

Cooking! Oh how I love it

Spending time with my beautiful Alley cat

Watching my little man run around in the nude laughing his head off

Running into people from school

Lady Gaga concert anticipation!

Getting about 150 second hand food magazines and cookbooks – Thank you Tracey!

Receiving RSVP’s for my son’s party next month

Finding party decorations cheap on the internet – score!

Travelling to far off lands, well three hours away to Sydney

Returning to the wonderful world of blogging

Watching The Avengers – pure awesomeness

Singing the Duck Song

Stretching first thing in the morning

When someone says “mmm, you smell nice!”

Watching my baby learn things

And, as always, my beautiful baby boy.

Five things I love

Today I’m a lovin’:

1. Watching my beautiful son eat chocolate filled croissants (I’m such a good Mum promoting health-eating like that!)
2. Sleeping in until 10am. Geez I miss the old days when I could just lie in bed and watch movies all day.
3. My heater. I swear I am cold blooded, my hands and feet are freezing in the middle of summer and right now (the middle of winter) they are KILLING me!
4. Photo booth pictures. I love how they manage to make everyone’s skin look pretty and smooth – not a blemish in site!
5. Using YNAB. I’m a nerd, I know, but I just love keeping a budget.