No more sugar for me!

Yes, I should have done this a long time ago.  But I've eliminated sugar from my diet at this point.  Processed sugar, I mean, I still eat fruit and stuff like that.  I should be honest and say MOST sugar.  I'm working on it LOL.

I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, PCOS.  Or at least I'm pretty sure I do.  I was told by one doctor that I have it, another said I don't, and a third said it doesn't matter, since I have many of the symptoms of it, I should act like I do.  I agree with the third.  The main cause of PCOS is problems metabolizing sugar, which leads to insulin resistance and eventually diabetes.  I don't have diabetes, but likely have insulin resistance.  Which basically means I need to eat as if I am diabetic.

So I'm trying to eat less sugar and more fiber.  I think it's a healthy way to eat for most people anyway!  It is based on the Glycemic Load, which is very similar to Glycemic Index, but researchers are starting to see that the Glycemic Load is more important than the Glycemic Index (google it if you are interested!)

ANYWAY.  Not eating sugar is HARD!  You walk into the grocery store, and what's the first thing you see? The freaking BAKERY!  I love bread, but it is pure sugar!  Carbs, that is, and the soft YUMMY bread has very little fiber, so it's basically sugar.  Not to mention cakes and donuts and other soft, gooey buns and so forth of deliciousness!  You know how the more you are told you can't have something the more you want it? YEAH!

So it's difficult, but I feel SO much better!  It doesn't surprise me.  I've always done better when I eat better.  When I was in high school, I discovered I was/am hypoglycemic.  I was getting migraines nearly every day because I wasn't eating breakfast.  When my mom figured it out, I was pretty mad, haha!  Yeah, I was mad because I couldn't have pop or sugar anymore!  But after a few days, or weeks, or however long it took me, I realized how much better I felt.  Then it was SO worth it to stay with it!

So I'm getting myself back on track.  Once I stick with it for a few weeks, it will be a lot easier.  That's how it always is for me - starts out easy (first day or two), gets hard (day three ON) for a couple weeks.  But if I stay with it, pretty soon I stop craving sugar.  It's not that it doesn't taste good still when I DO have it - it always does - but I'm not just constantly craving it.

I look forward to that day!

Continuing my new exercise program, and Jay's (almost) got a job?

And it's a lot of effort!  I've been trying to go 4 times a week for an hour.  I've been making it about 3 times a week, and I think that's about all I can do for the time being.  I'm sure I'll work up, but I really don't want to hate going.

So my husband Jay went and applied for a job with Pace (the bus company) to be a mechanic's helper (basically this means he'll be an apprentice diesel mechanic, which is the job he's been trying to get for such a long time!).  Then he had to take a test before they would even bother interviewing him.  Well, he just heard from them today, and he passed the test!  So now he's got an interview scheduled for 2 weeks.  Two weeks AGAIN!  Oh well.  I'm just praying like crazy that he gets this job.

Cleanse is done, now I've been exercising more *sigh*

Or at least trying to.  I've been going to group classes a few times a week.  I need to go more, I know.  But it is early in the morning (8:30 is early for me!), and then I'm TIRED!  But I'm trying.  I'm TRYING!!!

I didn't go this morning, though.  hahaha  But YESTERDAY I went, and then we went swimming in the afternoon, and I think that was a lot.  So that counted for yesterday and today.  RIGHT????

But I'll go tomorrow afternoon.  I really enjoy taking the classes.  They help me stay on track better - push me harder than I'd push myself.  I need that, and I like the structure.  Left on my own, I sort of get lazy (I'm sure many people do).  They have a dancing class, but it's never at a time I can get to, darn it.  Well, Thursday at 8pm I COULD, but that would be straight after work, without dinner.  That wouldn't work for me.  So I guess I just don't get to do the dance class for now.  They re-arrange the classes sometimes (from what they say), so maybe it will be put in at 8:30 am eventually!  I hope so.

But for now, I'll be happy with the classes they offer.  There's a "boot camp" type (sounds harder than it really is, although it's pretty hard!), a cardio/weight training interval class, and cardio.  There are other classes offered, too, but those are the ones they have that I can get to for now.  Well, I could do a pilates class, too... at 8:15 am - even EARLIER!

I guess I'm being forced to become a morning person!

I'm tired just thinking about it.  Good night...