30 Day Challenge: Day Seven

Today was my cheat day today; I had two glasses of soda and that was it! I didn't even go crazy on my cheat day - one glass of rootbeer while eating lunch with dad, and then a half glass of cola at a friends party.

Go me!

30 Day Challenge: No soda, day six

It's day six and I don't want to kill anyone; pretty impressive. I'm sure it's because I've been through this before and my body is also used to it. I also make sure that, for now, my blood sugar doesn't bottom out (I have hypoglycemia) from completely stopping sugar - I have a small juice box at break time.

I'm pretty proud of myself, I have not had one drop of soda at all this week... it's all been water and my body has been pretty tolerable. Sometimes my brain will make me nauseated if I drink more than one glass of water... my body doesn't like too much water (not saying I drink 40 glasses a day).

Last night I went out for a farewell dinner with my fellow coworkers; instead of four glasses of soda, I had four glasses of water! I also had a great meal and it was a treat - serloin burger with lettuce and tomato, a tablespoon of their special mayo (I think it has spices in it), french fries with honey dill sauce on the side. It was great, and I came under my dinner budget I had set too! A few of us are going out for lunch today because it is our last day today; I have a lunch budget too ($15) and hopefully I'll come under that including the tip. I will also drink water; I was thinking of treating myself to a glass of ice tea but I decided against it. If I have one, that can lead to two or three or four and I don't want that to happen.... I'll stick with water.

Now the soy milk challenge... that kinda fell. I haven't had any in two days but I can pick it up shortly.

Sammiches

I've been on a sandwich kick this week and it's not good for someone who is trying to get back on track with eating; my sandwiches have been mainly for lunch, which maintaining a healthy meal for dinner. I had Subway on Monday and the rest of the week I made a sandwich at home to bring to work.

Sandwiches remind me of my childhood and when my mom would always make them for school lunches; mom's always make the best sanwiches and you can never make them right yourself. My mom always said, "they're made with love!"

Sometimes my sandwiches are made with guilt and hostile feelings toward weight loss spread with a heaping helping doubt. ;)

Hey Starbuck addicts, it is that time of the year again! It is Red Cup season yet once again.

I went to Starbucks this morning to find out that my beloved red cup has joyfully made its return for the season; I even squeed right along with the barista. Good times!

They also have a new drink added to its lineup (well for Canadian customers that is) - Caramel Creme Brulee and it is as L.L. put it "sex in a cup" (her words, not mine). I will say it's a party in your mouth, absolute heaven!

That drink has 400 calories if you have it with whipped cream; if you drink this every day stay away from the whipped cream as without it it's 250 calories (no trans fat and very little saturated fat). Today I could care less about the 400 calories... this was a wonderful treat!

30 Day Challenge: No Soda - Day 2

Yesterday I thought I was doing pretty good; drank water all day long instead of soda. However, I replaced my sugar cravings with Halloween candy. Major fail.

This morning I did stop at Starbucks for coffee (RED CUPS ARE HERE) and got it sugar free. It sure is heavenly - sugar free, skim milk creme brulee latte. Awesome.

I brought water with me to work; the taps here have filters but not too sure about that one! I dislike city water; we live close to a treatment plant and we always know it's Wednesday because that is when they clean the system and put more chlorine into the water. Yuck. We have bottled water service (don't start on the bottled water rant).

The one thing I forgot about replacing soda with water is you're constantly going to the bathroom! Well I guess that's a good thing... flushing all the crap out of your system!

Go water!