Day 2: Transitioning
Sunday , September 8, 2013
9:15 am
Fell off the wagon on the first day, but I decide to remain on the program as my body adjusts to the new drinks.
Video Summary:
Second drink contains 14 1/2 tsp. of sugar. Each teaspoon has 4 grams, so the drink contains 58 grams of sugar. This is about the same amount of sugar as the 16 oz. energy drink which I used to drink on a daily basis. Also there are 16 calories per tsp., so the drink contains about 230 calories or about 10% of my caloric intake based on a 2,300 calorie diet.
I already fell of the wagon on the first day. I had some deserts in my refrigerator which I ate last night. I didn’t finish the full sugar drink on the first day so maybe it was a wash in terms of sugar consumption. However, I am going to use the same strategy I used in my caffeine videos, which is to allow myself two times to mess up before starting over again. I will try to remove all desserts from the house to avoid this happening again.
So the first day didn’t really go that well, but today is a new day and I still consider myself on the program. The drinks taste sickeningly sweet. Its amazing to me how much sugar they put in soft drinks. I can’t see how a normal person would drink something so sweet unless it was hidden somehow. So I don’t find the sugar drink all that appealing, although once I start drinking it I want to continue.
Also my digestion was a bit off yesterday. I don’t see how I could be doing anything dangerous by drinking plain sugar water, however. I felt like I was going through a strange transition period yesterday but everything seems fine overall.
I’ll try to relate some basic information about nutrition that I’ve gleaned in general research on the internet and elsewhere. I just consider myself an educated layperson who has been following the latest trends but am not a trained nutritionist or specialist. It seems that sugar is the thing that a lot of people are focussing on now, so that is where I will focus. Also, I consider myself to be a bit overweight. I weigh about 200 lbs. and have weighed between 200 and 210 for a decade or more (beginning around the time I first became addicted to energy drinks)
I’ve decided I want to be off of caffeine and sugar. I’ve already kick the caffeine habit and now I want to concentrate on sugar.
Tomorrow I’ll do an overview of the three main food groups: proteins, carbohydrates and fats. I’ll concentrate primarily on carbohydrates and within that segment: sugars, and particularly table sugar and high fructose corn syrup (both of which contain fructose). The general gist of the series is that we are consuming too much refined sugar and HFCS, which is causing spikes in our blood sugar, and there is new research that fructose is particularly dangerous.