Today, I read an interesting article I had stored away for years. Written by a certain David Gillespie, David wrote that he was a corporate lawyer who researched fructose as he was 40 kgs overweight. Basically he ended up cutting out all products containing sugar and losing 40 kgs and keeping it off. His research identified to him that as a species us human beings are quite ill equipped to deal with the amounts of sugar we all consume. Obviously David has gone on to bigger and better things and now has written a book that can be purchased. I have not read any of his books but what he stated in his article did make a lot of sense to me. I guess particularly as I found that it was applicable to me where the sole issue and root cause of all my problems with weight is directly related to sugar and its forms....chocolate...chocolate and chocolate. Take todays example where I have already consumed 2 bars of chocolate and rice with milk and sugar - yes 2 serves of it - all in a days work! The voice inside me was on autopilot when it said to me that before I give up on sugar lets devour this as a last hurray. Yet how many last hurrays have I had I ask myself as I write this piece? Too many...but this time the goal is to learn and improve. I dont want to see myself writing this blog for the next five years and continue this journey of weightloss. I want to be any one of the blogs I read where the write has gone through her journey and reach or even almost reached the other side.
Anyway, coming back to the topic of the sugar free phase of my life, I am not about to jump into a sugarfree me. I am just acknowledging that I have a problem with sugar and all things sweet. This guy seems to make some sense to me from the limited amount I have read and heard. So one of the things that I have done to know more is order Davids second book on how to quit sugar. I figured that if I have spent moolah on so much diet and fitness, let this be one more thing. I am planning on going back to gym next month and so why not go armed with the right tools rather than just rock up yet again for yet another experiment and become a fit 114 kg woman, yet still obese. I will provide feed back on the book once I have read it. Also, I will go over all his references with a fine tooth comb just to cover all bases that this is not just another gimmicky thing I have given my business to. The book should get to me within the next week and I am using at least this weekend to plan my MO. So all I will say is watch this space!
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