Jumping on a bandwagon

Since the 18th of December last year life has been somewhat of a whirlwind. It was on this day we found out the startup my husband co-founded had been accepted onto a program in China for 4 months. At the time I was working for myself (on the cookies) and so it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to jump on board and for us both to head out on a little adventure to the Far East.

Since then life hasn't slowed down and we've basically been living out of a suitcase. It's been and continues to be an amazing adventure but it is exhausting. We're renting our flat out in Cambridge and have now moved to London. However since returning in mid May we haven't had anywhere to call home. We've stayed at the in-laws, in hotels and now in house share air bnb's. Everyone has been amazing but there's nothing quite like your own space. This continued living out of a suitcase has presented me with a sense of complete and utter loss of control (and mind on more than one occasion!). We've had an offer accepted on a flat down in London now and should hopefully be moving in two weeks...

This loss of control, lack of routine, constantly eating out etc hasn't left me in the best state mentally or physically and I want to fix it. I've been dabbling with the idea of completely overhauling my diet for a while and have decided today that I'm going to jump on the old quitting sugar bandwagon. Or at least experiment with it for the next 8 weeks.

Every single tooth in my mouth is a sweet one and although I don't have a daily chocolate/cake/donut habit, I do enjoy all of the above and I absolutely adore fruit - the sweeter the better as well as dates and all of the other yummy 'healthy' foods I have discovered today contain hideous amounts of fructose which is the bad stuff. It's always been sweet over savoury. Always. Now however I'm going to try and change this.

I won't lie, I'm a little bit scared and keep thinking of reasons not to do it - we don't have a place to cook in yet, I'm meeting up with friends for dinner next week and so on. But not doing it now is only going to prolong the receiving of the hopefully beneficial effects...

I made the first step at lunch time and went out and bought the I Quit Sugar 8 week program book. I'm going to start in earnest tomorrow and see how it goes. I know I'm going to find it hard and I know I will have wobbles but I feel there could be more to gain than not.

I want to make sure I'm doing it right though so if you have any hints and tips on what not to do/eat etc please send them my way! Particularly for when eating out and when the sweet cravings hit!

Day one starts tomorrow!

Lizzie x