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  • 28 Mar 2011 7:16 AM
    Message # 555837
    Deleted user

    3 weeks sugar free and down about 2 kgs (roughly)...my motivation is a trail of destroyed "diet plans" I leave behind me and failure pretty much written all over all of them. That together the words you don't want your doctor to say "You're morbidly obese".  So here I am, after having read the Quit Plan on advice from 2 others...a work mate who is successfully sugar free for about 10 weeks and has lost about 10kgs and is looking fabulous but more importantly, feeling fantastic.  And the other is my brother, who has been "preaching' to us for a few months now but nobody really listening...until I read the book myself and it was like a light bulb going on in my head.  So now I have a nice little support system happening and feel like I can give this a decent go and make some positive life changes.  I am already feeling some benefits, like better sleep, less aching joints and just a couple of days ago, another workmate said "you can tell you're doing something, your skin is glowing".  I took that as a positive and will use that as a bit more motivation. 

    One thing I have found that I need (and hopefully might be able to be pointed in the right direction on this forum...I need some recipes for food which isn't necessarily sweet...like casseroles and stews and pasta sauces etc...anyone with those, I'd be most appreciative. 

    Looking forward to the support you guys can offer...your stories are so motivational to me :-)  Good luck to all...regular updates by me will be made! 

  • 29 Mar 2011 4:45 AM
    Reply # 556722 on 555837
    Deleted user

    I hit a small challenge today...got home from work and had an attack of the shakes!  Now in the past, I have had the shakes, but only when I've let myself get too hungry and then quelled the shakes with a big old sugar hit..usually a Mars bar or some other chocolate. Today I had a glass of milk and a piece of cheese...seemed to work...anyone else have the shakes???

     

  • 31 Mar 2011 6:28 AM
    Reply # 558315 on 555837
    Deleted user
    A good cure for hypoglycaemia (probably what caused the shakes) is a glass of soda water with a couple of teaspoons of glucodin powder (most supermarkets sell it - it is pure glucose) and a decent squeeze from a lemon. I know it breaks the "no sugar" rule but this sugar is an exception.
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