December 1, 2007

The beet thing got me to thinking about how I want to tell the world to stop eating sugar. Not as in sugar beets, just sugar and any sugar-like substance. Honey, syrup, corn syrup...it's all the same. I cut it out completely, well 99.9% completely, about 6 months ago and the weight immediately started coming off. I exercise, but it really doesn't matter, because stopping the sugar made the biggest difference. You can exercise 24/7, but if you don't cut out the empty carbs, you aren't going to lose the pounds. After the sugar I stopped the bread and all processed flour products. That stuff is the same as eating sugar. We all know that by now I think. I don't really want to say how much weight I've lost, but it's a bunch. Well, you've got to replace that stuff with something else. Like beets. Raw veggies. After about a month (remember the 30 day deal) you stop craving sugar and bread. You just don't care about it any more. At first you'll think your life without sugar or bread won't be worth a damn. But after a while that changes and you'll be indifferent about them. When you eat the occasional obligatory piece of birthday cake, it won't send you into a feeding frenzy.
Sugar...bad. Beets...mmm...good.

November 30, 2007

I just realized my blog wasn't entered on this website. I'm doing something wrong on the computer and now I've got to figure it out. But I'm going to keep writing anyway, just to get in the habit. A friend told me it takes 30 days to break a habit. So if I don't bite my nails for 30 days, then I'll be done with that habit. Just gotta get that first day done where I don't bite my nails...

If it takes 30 days to break one, I figure it takes 30 days to create a habit (a non-narcotic one anyway) so I'm going to attempt to write every day for the next 30 days.

I'm trying to encourage my husband to eat beets. I love beets. He hates them. This is leading to a chasm in our relationship. So if he will just start eating beets and eat them every day for a month I think he'll be in the habit of eating beets. Beets...mmm...good.