Day Two of the New Beginning

It has been quite a day.  I cut my calories a lot.  In fact by the time I got home I figured I had only eaten between 450-600 calories.  I even bypassed the fresh rolls at the school today.  And that was hard.  I have also pretty much given up sugar. The following post gives some great tips for giving up sugar:  http://bit.ly/1d3S0qu.  I think that is going to be one of the harder things I will be doing, especially during the next 21 days.  I came home with a head ache today and I am not sure if it was from the lack of calories or the lack of sugar.  Though after eating two rice cakes with egg whites I did feel better.  At the school I work at they have installed a soda machine for the faculty and staff.  It is free and one of the drinks is a Sobe Life Water.  It is a berry pomegranate flavor.  It is sweet and I have drank a lot of it before the Christmas break.  I have decided to give it up even though it is supposed to be zero calories.  The label says it contains 32.5 grams of sugar, which is equivalent to drinking plain water and eating a Snickers bar.  I don't think it is worth it and I don't want the artificial sweeteners and other things it contains.  I even was enjoying the taste and I usually wont drink diet drinks, besides I would rather have the Snickers Bar.  I guess the best thing is to go back to drinking lots of plain old water and that I do enjoy.

Here are a couple of more links to articles about quitting sugar:  http://thedailylove.com/the-lowdown-on-quitting-sugar/ ,  http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-10492/how-to-quit-sugar-in-5-days.html ,  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-james/quitting-sugar_b_4116814.html