This is quite possibly our toughest challenge.  Cutting sugar out of your diet is quite a struggle, when was the last time you tried?  Cutting out sugar will adjust your taste buds, shrink your waistline and leave you less vulnerable to diseases such as diabetes.  In fact, the average American eats 160 pounds of sugar per year!  This is about 7 ounces of sugar a day!

So here’s our weekly challenge …

Eliminate foods when sugar is listed in the first 3 ingredients, per one of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules.  This will mean glancing at labels regularly this week and avoiding vending machines like the plague.  But be careful what you order in restaurants too.  They can sneak in a lot of sugar when you’re not looking.

The Next Step

Avoid processed foods altogether to avoid all that processed sugar!  This means eating around the perimeter of the grocery store, fruits & veggies and things as close to natural as possible.  Don’t eat added sugar more than once a day, less if you can.

The Gold Standard

Eat only foods in their natural state.  Don’t add any processed sugar to your meals.  This means using a touch of honey and natural occurring sugar in fruits.

You’ll find by the end of the week that your taste buds have started to shift, processed sugars will feel overly sweet and you’ll begin to appreciate the clean sweetness of a ripe orange.   You’ll also find that mid-afternoon slump isn’t so bad and you won’t crave caffeine quite as much as you have been.

Let us know how you do, this is one I’ll be doing myself this week.

Lisa

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