I had this crazy notion that as soon as January started, that somehow I would as if by magic start losing weight again. Obviously this would happen because my mind was in the right place. But the reality was, although my head was in a good place, my mouth was not. Yes my mouth was filled with a starbucks delicious and yummy cinnamon swirl, whilst slurping on their full fat cappuccino (no skinny here!!!). So head good, but my sugar addiction not gone.
One major strop and much comforting from lovely boyfriend later, I and wonderful boy decided that we would start eating low gi foods and that in February once our banks accounts were replenished we would start following the "The Gi Diet Clinic" religiously. I have now not eaten sugar for a week or had any cappuccinos or generally touched anything really bad.
And I had one of those light bulb moments upon reading the GI Diet Clinic (which is the same as original GI Diet book, but has meal plans and good guidance on tricky areas...) where Rick Gallop explains that the GI Diet does not ban any food groups. Bollocks it doesn't ban anything, what about f**king sugar!
Truth is Rick is right, sure sugar is banned, but sweeteners are not. Of course some sweeteners have a slightly shady reputation for causing cancer in small animals, but if you really, honestly follow the principles of the GI Diet you certainly won't be spending your days eating sweetener out of the jar and you are not a hamster. Sweetener like everything else will be in moderation.
So anyway to my epiphany. At the start of my diet at the end of 2006 when telling people about giving up sugar etc... lots of people told me that when they give up sugar after a while they just don't want it anymore or sweet things generally. I have spent the last year trying to be one of those people, struggling to understand why I need sugar badly, blaming poor Mr Rick and his frigging diet and worst of all becoming a secret binger of chocolate.
I now realise that I am not one of those people. I LOVE SWEET things. So all you people who can give up sweet stuff and not need or want it anymore, good for you, but fuck off.
Dearest Ricky-Poos I profusely apologise for blaming you for my horrendous sugar binges and cravings, these were not your fault. However I reserve the right to curse and bitch about you when your diet works less well...
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Well I can see you thinking "okay she's had her epiphany, but what is she gonna do about it".
What I am gonna do? Bake, thats what I have been doing, oh yes I have been making low gi wholemeal scones having them with the amazing st dalfour jam (in moderation of course) and would you believe it, these amazing scones have taken the edge off giving up sugar.
So I will make more scones and many other sweetener full, low gi goodies and maybe at last I might actually get somewhere closer to my goal weight...
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