Breaking up with the sweet stuff 🍭

I can’t even begin to explain how much better I feel about giving up refined sugar. 🧂

Honestly I’m not crashing daily which is huge as at the end of last year I was eating chocolate every damn day which meant I put on a mean amount of weight and I felt rubbish. My skin was super bad and I felt lethargic. It culminated in me collapsing in March in Pizza Express (massive apologies for my embarrassing fit and faint Cathrine who had to help me and witness this!) to make some serious changes to my health. 🍽

I started to make some radical changes and completely gave up dairy on top of carrying on with being totally GF and I think my main poisons now are some dark chocolate, coffee and the odd red wine. I’m mostly plant based but do have a little bit of fish and meat.🍷

I can have the tiniest amount of sugar here and there - I could never be a purist but working with a health coach has totally shown me how what I was putting into my mouth hasn’t been serving me. 🍪

It also taught me how destructive some of my old, outworn and downright annoying habits are to me and it’s highlighted where I can improve. I had to identify my self sabotage which was actually so painful - think having to face someone and tell them what you’ve been eating and why you’ve made questionable food decisions (read all the cake and biscuits) 🍰

This has been a very humbling experience as well as slightly humiliating, I can’t lie. I had the answers inside of me but being held accountable showed me how I haven’t been nourishing myself. Through this process I’ve realised I couldn’t really nourish anything else in my life properly without the fundamentals of feeding myself with food that fundamentally gives me energy. 🍲

I have also been hyper aware now from not eating sugar that when I do have it on an odd occasion, I start eating it in a frenzied fashion like it’s crack cocaine and can’t stop myself unless I give it to someone else to take it away from me!!! So there’s that. I know it’s Halloween so all the candy is gonna be flying around but thankfully none will be landing near my lips! 👄

Do you struggle with sugar? Or is this just my battle?! Lmk in the comments if you do! 👻