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No-Sugar Diet Begins
Sep. 24th, 2006 04:37 pmToday I realized that I didn't eat any processed sugar yesterday except for 1 1/2 squares of dark chocolate, so I decided that this week (starting yesterday) would be a good time to do the one-week no-processed sugar diet I described in my Sugar and Dough entry.
Then I remembered that I had rice pudding and mango pudding and a cookie for brunch yesterday. Oops. Okay, then I'm starting today.
For lunch and snacks I have egg salad sandwiches and burritos and pretzels. For breakfast I have Ezekiel raisin English muffins. Normally raisin English muffins have added sugar to go with the cinnamon, but not these guys. I don't even see how they got enough sugar in there to feed the yeast. And speaking of yeast, I decided that processed sugar used to feed yeast would be okay, so long as the bread is not made to be sweet (I won't eat any "honey" wheat bread, for example) because I am not giving up bread.
As a reminder, the point of this is to see if I feel any different and to see what happens to my weight.
Here is today's progress report (so far). At Whole Foods they were giving away delicious-looking dark-chocolate covered nuts. I am allowing myself one to two cheats this week for situations where people give me delicious sugary things, but I decided that this would not be one of the cheats.
While waiting in the check-out line I started to feel light-headed. This proves that I need sugar to live. The end.
Just kidding. I decided it might mean I need some more water. Or I have low blood pressure. Or I'm getting sick? I had a big glass of water and lay down. Then I woke up hungry and in the mood for hot chocolate. Instead I had another big glass of water, then an English muffin and milk. I still feel a little off. It could be my body telling me it doesn't want to go jogging or scrub the closet out like I was wanting it to do.
If I am sick, refusing to eat sugar should not make things worse, so I'll go ahead and continue.
**
In other news I finished catching up on the Sneed blog I recommended to you guys. Warning: the earlier blogs have more rants and seem meaner. But I still find it well worth reading. What particularly sticks in my mind are his entries about home loans.
The most fun one is This Just In... - "In the commercial a male voice is speculating about how great it would be to have all the money you needed or wanted. 'You can,' the narrator says. 'It is possible with a Stagecoach Bank Home Equity Line-of-Credit (HELOC).' Gazooks!! All the money I ever wanted. How great is that?
"He goes on to say that you can use it to send the kids to college or add an energy- efficient room to the house. What responsible citizen of the planet wouldn't want to conserve energy or educate their kids? Why no one, that's who. It is practically your duty to borrow this money."
The most in-depth educational one is Mortgaging Your Future or the Creative Road to Disaster - "The 'magic' of an interest only loan is that you can get a $250,000 home for the payment of a $200,000 conventional 30-year loan. More house, same payment. A dream come true. Just don't pay the principal for ten years. By then you should be able to sell the place for a bag-o-cash.
"That is unless the housing market is stagnant or you lose your job. What if you die and leave your family to figure it out, or something else happens that forces you to sell at the worst possible moment? What if interest rates go to 12% like they did in 1983? Want to be forced to get a new loan then? No, getting into the maximum mortgage possible is inviting disaster."
I recently read that some of the people who got crazy mortgages already had good mortgages and were talked out of them. I had thought that only new buyers who felt they couldn't afford a good enough house with a regular mortgage had fallen for these. Very sad.
For folks who are in trouble because of getting stupid mortgages, he has advice in I Hate to Be an I Told You So - "I am not saying to stiff anyone, but there is a priority to this mess. Let them sue you. Most people in danger of losing the house don't have anything worth taking so a judgement is meaningless. Don't worry about your credit rating. You can fix that later. Don't spend time talking to collectors except to tell them that you are working on it."
Then I remembered that I had rice pudding and mango pudding and a cookie for brunch yesterday. Oops. Okay, then I'm starting today.
For lunch and snacks I have egg salad sandwiches and burritos and pretzels. For breakfast I have Ezekiel raisin English muffins. Normally raisin English muffins have added sugar to go with the cinnamon, but not these guys. I don't even see how they got enough sugar in there to feed the yeast. And speaking of yeast, I decided that processed sugar used to feed yeast would be okay, so long as the bread is not made to be sweet (I won't eat any "honey" wheat bread, for example) because I am not giving up bread.
As a reminder, the point of this is to see if I feel any different and to see what happens to my weight.
Here is today's progress report (so far). At Whole Foods they were giving away delicious-looking dark-chocolate covered nuts. I am allowing myself one to two cheats this week for situations where people give me delicious sugary things, but I decided that this would not be one of the cheats.
While waiting in the check-out line I started to feel light-headed. This proves that I need sugar to live. The end.
Just kidding. I decided it might mean I need some more water. Or I have low blood pressure. Or I'm getting sick? I had a big glass of water and lay down. Then I woke up hungry and in the mood for hot chocolate. Instead I had another big glass of water, then an English muffin and milk. I still feel a little off. It could be my body telling me it doesn't want to go jogging or scrub the closet out like I was wanting it to do.
If I am sick, refusing to eat sugar should not make things worse, so I'll go ahead and continue.
**
In other news I finished catching up on the Sneed blog I recommended to you guys. Warning: the earlier blogs have more rants and seem meaner. But I still find it well worth reading. What particularly sticks in my mind are his entries about home loans.
The most fun one is This Just In... - "In the commercial a male voice is speculating about how great it would be to have all the money you needed or wanted. 'You can,' the narrator says. 'It is possible with a Stagecoach Bank Home Equity Line-of-Credit (HELOC).' Gazooks!! All the money I ever wanted. How great is that?
"He goes on to say that you can use it to send the kids to college or add an energy- efficient room to the house. What responsible citizen of the planet wouldn't want to conserve energy or educate their kids? Why no one, that's who. It is practically your duty to borrow this money."
The most in-depth educational one is Mortgaging Your Future or the Creative Road to Disaster - "The 'magic' of an interest only loan is that you can get a $250,000 home for the payment of a $200,000 conventional 30-year loan. More house, same payment. A dream come true. Just don't pay the principal for ten years. By then you should be able to sell the place for a bag-o-cash.
"That is unless the housing market is stagnant or you lose your job. What if you die and leave your family to figure it out, or something else happens that forces you to sell at the worst possible moment? What if interest rates go to 12% like they did in 1983? Want to be forced to get a new loan then? No, getting into the maximum mortgage possible is inviting disaster."
I recently read that some of the people who got crazy mortgages already had good mortgages and were talked out of them. I had thought that only new buyers who felt they couldn't afford a good enough house with a regular mortgage had fallen for these. Very sad.
For folks who are in trouble because of getting stupid mortgages, he has advice in I Hate to Be an I Told You So - "I am not saying to stiff anyone, but there is a priority to this mess. Let them sue you. Most people in danger of losing the house don't have anything worth taking so a judgement is meaningless. Don't worry about your credit rating. You can fix that later. Don't spend time talking to collectors except to tell them that you are working on it."