I've amazingly lost one more pound. I say amazing because I have spent the entire last week indulging in lots of salty snacks. And I really enjoyed it. But my tongue was shriveled up this morning because I ate so much salt yesterday. I did check my blood pressure the other day to see if I was doing harm. It was actually the lowest it has been in a year. So I am attributing that to the fact that I have lost 7 pounds.
I survived a sugary holiday (Halloween) without eating any sugar. It really wasn't so bad. What has been worse is the change in weather. I want to bake wonderful sweet things. Not only am I craving them, but it is my tradition to do so at this time of year. I tried making muffins with just fruit in them to sweeten them. While they weren't terrible, they grew green fuzz on the third day before I could eat them all. I will have to freeze them if I try that again.
Then I ordered a used cookbook off Amazon called "The Best Low Fat, No Sugar, Bread Machine Cookbook EVER!" Then I borrowed my mother-in-laws bread machine. I stayed up till midnight making the first recipe. And when I got up the next morning, I could not wait to eat the bread. I took one bite and threw the loaf away. It was awful.
I am not giving up. I made sugar free brownies with stevia. The chocolate flavor was divine, because I have gone so long without it. But they were bitter, not hardly sweet at all. My granddaughter gave them a thumbs down, picked all the nuts out of them and handed me the plate back.
I stood for 30 minutes in the baking isle at the grocery store reading labels. Surely someone has perfected a sugar free confection. But I came home empty handed because they all had aspartame.
Ahhhh, well.......... did I mention that I lost another pound?
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