Food Update

Maybe you're wondering what happened to my "Getting rid of sugar" - resolve.

Well, as expected/feared, Easter turned out to be a little disastrous in the sugar department, and for some reason the weeks afterwards I just ate whatever I wanted, not always the best choices either. Chocolate bars, cake, lots of drinks (all those birthday celebrations because all my classmates are turning 30...), stuff like that.
Of course, that didn't really contribute to my wellbeing. :P

I have now (maybe for the past one or two weeks) started to reduce sugar again, eat more veggies, all of that. Not yet perfectly, not yet really avoiding it, but significantly reduced, yes. And I'm already feeling much better again.

I am currently a little conflicted on how to continue. There is a wedding in May, or rather, there is a hen night and two days of wedding (civil, church). I guess there will be food and cake, and I can't really see myself not eating wedding cake. ;)
June there are several birthdays, with the celebration of my own at the end of it. And I can't really see myself not eating my own birthday cake, either.

So, I guess cutting out sugar as completely as possible will have to wait until somewhere around the beginning of July. Until then, further reduction, and I'll definitely need to find a way to prepare my own lunch for workdays - everything I usually get also has some sugar content, as tiny as it may be.
At least I now have an additional book to help me make the best of it when the time comes. Although cutting out onion and garlic as well (and other things, as the book recommends) for several weeks will not be fun at all. :P

March Reading + Food Update

Here's what I read in March:

Midnight's Children (I started this in October, but read only to about page 80 - finished it now)
Things fall apart
Disgrace
A bunch of short stories (Simple Recipe (Madeleine Thien), Swimming Lessons (Rohinton Mistry), Land Deal (Gerald Murnane), Pension Day (Archie Weller), Ismini (Beverley Farmer), Brackley and the Bed (Samuel Selvon), The Man (Austin Clarke))

...these were all for my exam,  which went very well indeed. :) And yes, I read those texts above in less than a week. Phew. But it was worth it. My mind went a little funny, reading all those rather sad stories in such a short space of time, but yeah. Life goes on. :)

And then, for something completely different:
One Piece #1-61

... I love them so much. I've been reading them for around 10 years now (I started after watching parts of the anime together with my brother, way back when). As I see it, they will continue for a long while yet, I would guess easily to around #100. I hope they will. They're the best. <3
Thankfully, my boyfriend has joined me in being a fan, and we can now talk about them endlessly. And watch the anime together. And share the cost of the books. Isn't it great when things work out like that? :D

Food Update:
I'm still keeping up my daily lists of what I consume, but one day I just stopped posting them - I wanted to add more commentary but was too tired, and it just continued from there. Maybe I'll post them later just like that, maybe I'll add some more explanation yet, I don't know.
Anyway, I told myself that up until Easter, I would try eating some things containing sugar again to see what that would do, and then after Easter I'll probably go back to eating none, with a book on fructose intolerance to help me some more. At least by now I'm pretty sure my problems are tied to fructose/high sugar in general. A good step in the right direction. :)