A (41:21)
It's not a weight loss thing. Yeah, I'm having some issues. Some. Histamine issues. So that's kind of why I'm set out to do this. So I am on weekend three and I'm feeling really good. I overall, like, have some thoughts I want to share on my sugar fast. And like, I, I like, literally practiced this speech that I'm about to give, like, in my car multiple times. And at the end of the day, like, there's just not a way that I can speak my truth in a way that is going to be as maybe politically correct as some of you would like. So, like, if you are triggered by, like, food talk like this, like, just, I. I can't water down what I want to say and get my message across. So, like, just skip over a minutes. But it's really changed my life. Like, I have never done a diet like this before. And Elizabeth can attest to this. Like, I'm actually not the most, like, disciplined person in the world. Like, I'm always the. Like, I, I've been very blessed with, like, I've always been naturally thin my whole life. So I've, like, never really just, like, had to give much thought to, like, being on a quote unquote diet. And again, I didn't do the sugar fast for weight alone. I did it for, for faith, for health, in just mainly for faith. I have tried though, in the past, like, you know, doing like, quote unquote, like, moderation, like, you know, tracking calories or like, cutting out this a little bit and like, only having, like, one cheat meal. And I actually find that to be so incredibly difficult. Like, for me, moderation does not work. Like, I don't want to eat things. I don't want to do an 80 20. I don't want to do that because, like, then I just hyper fixate on the 20%. Like, and I just like, wait. Or I, like, I'm just like, so obsessed with, like, you know, not eating a lot so that I can, like, have the treats that I want. And, like, I don't think that that's just not sustainable. I don't think I. It helped. Like, I don't think it gave me a very. I won't even say healthy. It didn't give me a fun relationship with food. Like, it was just, like, annoying to me. So when I did this sugar fast, like, I was really kind of hoping to. Just because everyone talks about how, like, then the cravings stop. Then the cravings stop and I'm over here being like, I could never give up sugar. Like, I, I could never do it. But the more I, like, kind of research it, the more people would be like, no, then you don't want it. I was like, there's no way. Like, there's just. That's not gonna happen to me. But sure enough, like, two to three weeks in, like, I really stopped craving it. And, like, of course, like, it still sounds good because, like, let me be clear, like, sugar's good. Like, it's not like I ever got to a point where I was repulsed by it. Except for the ketchup, I never got repulsed. But I stopped thinking about it, and I stopped feeling like I needed that sweet treat at the end of a meal. And that really felt like I, like, took some more control over just, like, what I was putting into my body. And then when I. And I started to feel really good, like, I feel really good. I feel like I have more energy, and I feel like I'm more excited about the foods I'm eating. Like, now I'm so excited about, like, eggs and, like, chicken and zucchini. And I've like, these are foods that before I would have felt like such a chore to eat, and now they don't feel that way anymore. And, like, I have lost a lot of inflammation and weight. So, like, over the time of my sugar fast, which, you know, like, I'm not where I was. I'm not the weight I was before I had kids. I don't think I'll ever get back to that. Like, that's not really what I'm going after. But I did, believe it or not, lose £9 just in those last 46 days by cutting out the sugar. And then I cut out the carbs the last three weeks. And I couldn't believe how easy it was to go from. Like, I'm kind of happy. Like, I stair stepped into this new diet because I think it would have been really hard to cut out sugar and carbs at the same time. I cut out the sugar for three weeks and then cutting out the carbs three weeks later didn't really feel like that big of a deal. And now, you know, I'm just like, I wasn't. I didn't wake up on Easter being like, finally, I can have sugar. Like, I didn't really have anything. I had, like, three Cadbury eggs because I like. Like, just like the little ones because I like them. And they were on a charcuterie board. So, like, I had those, but I didn't have a donut. I didn't have this French toast casserole. I just, like, didn't really do want it And I didn't want to kind of like unravel the progress I had been having on for just one day. So I don't think I'll eat like this forever. Like, I do think I will introduce more sugar and carbs back into my diet eventually, but I'm going to see this 12 week program through. But if you just would have told me like, like, if you're like, I could never do that. It's like, I know, because, like your body, like is addicted to sugar and it needs to detox. Like, I know you couldn't like, because I promise you, like, I said that like, Elizabeth was way more disciplined than me. You always have been in that, in like diet and stuff and like just working out. Like, I'm just not that person. Which is why I just think for me, moderation does not work.
