Day 4 of 100

Well this little experiment of 100 Days without sugar just gets more and more interesting every day. I lost another 2 pounds.

And MMMMM!!!! MMMM!!! Food tastes soooo good. I am enjoying everything I eat with a heightened sense of flavor. While I was eating sugar, fruit never seemed especially sweet. In fact, I would put sugar on many of the fruits that I ate. But now that my taste buds have had a rest from the sugar, they are actually changing. Flavors are much more intense. And not just sweet flavors. I ate the most wonderful grapes yesterday when I was craving chocolate so bad and I was amazed at how sweet they tasted. And unlike chocolate, I didn’t need to eat a whole lot of them to be satisfied.

I never noticed how sweet a pecan is. Or a cashew. Even mint is especially appealing to me and I never really cared for the flavor of mint before.

Another thing I observed: Sugary food gave me an instant gratification, but I had to eat a lot of them to feel satisfied. But vegetables and protein satiate. Satiate in Webster’s Dictionary is complete satisfaction that destroys interest or desire.