I Quit Sugar For A Week (+ recipes)

I Quit Sugar for a Week; my experiment into whether ditching the sweet stuff is really as life-changing as some tell us it is…

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I’m a cynic. I question everything and generally don’t expect much. It’s a good way to never being disappointed by anything. This attitude is no different when it comes to health. While it would lovely to be in tip-top condition, it’s not always practical or at all possible for us all to GLOWWWW from the inside out.

Public health enemy number 1 is sugar. A few years ago it was all about dodging fat, but nowadays we dodge sugar. Sugar free, no added sugar, naturally sweetened, refined sugar free, you’ll have seen it all by now. It’s a cringe-worthy Western phobia of happiness and enjoyment that shakes sense out of us, just because we love to have something to demonise. There are even talks of introducing a “Pudding Tax” to punish us all for enjoying the sweet things.

While I fully advocate the ingestion of sugar and all things sweet, I thought I’d undertake a little experiment during the most boring month of the year. So this January, I’m going a full week without any sugar. After all, I’ve said many times in the past that if you can’t drop something for a week…