I have been as I have mentioned many times always looking for ways to cut sugar from my diet.
Despite not having a sweet tooth I consume sugar with my tea and coffee of which I have a total of two in a day and each caffeine beverage is spiked with a couple teaspoons of sugar and there are days especially on weekends when I drink perhaps another extra cup because why not?
But the thing is that my fruit consumption is also quite high and maybe adding extra sugar on the side isn't nearly as healthy.
I have tried, really tried to love and drink black coffee but I don't like it. I mean it's good but then I rationalize that if I'm drinking just the one then why not have it to my liking. It's not like I'm drinking thick, foamy sugar-laden cream-topped coffee and that's how I reason it to myself.
Despite my caffeine purge weeks I can't seem to shake off the need to add a bit of something sweet and I do loathe artificial sweeteners..so what's a gal to do?
I bring up this problem because of each time after having my small cup of coffee in the afternoon I crave another and of course I don't cave into the feeling, instead, I end up drinking some herbal tea infusion or similar crap (it's good but really?) but the weather's gotten hotter and I do not feel like drinking the aforementioned anymore instead my brain that runs on carbs and glucose tells me to pick up the Moka pot and make a delicious something something because it's so much easier than making regular tea which I'm enslaved to each morning.
And now coming to my next point.
I've been looking at my earlier food logs, ones from months and a year ago to check what changes have come about in my dietary habits and how much tea and coffee I was consuming and the only discernible change is that I have reduced my meals from three to two.
Earlier I was eating a small breakfast each morning with my cup of tea which included toast, eggs, scrambled eggs or boiled potatoes or leftover roti's with stir-fried vegetables or just plain bread and butter after which I worked out and now I only eat a banana with my cup of morning tea or some eggs before a workout after which I eat my first proper meal of the day.
I was drinking a cup of tea/hot chocolate in the morning and coffee/HC in the afternoon except for a few days where I've mentioned another small cup of coffee or tea around 4pm with a biscuit and left a note to reduce sugar intake.
basically, my problems were the same as they are now and I don't know how to change it. I mean I do know but my brain is such a dick.
Despite not having a sweet tooth I consume sugar with my tea and coffee of which I have a total of two in a day and each caffeine beverage is spiked with a couple teaspoons of sugar and there are days especially on weekends when I drink perhaps another extra cup because why not?
But the thing is that my fruit consumption is also quite high and maybe adding extra sugar on the side isn't nearly as healthy.
I have tried, really tried to love and drink black coffee but I don't like it. I mean it's good but then I rationalize that if I'm drinking just the one then why not have it to my liking. It's not like I'm drinking thick, foamy sugar-laden cream-topped coffee and that's how I reason it to myself.
Despite my caffeine purge weeks I can't seem to shake off the need to add a bit of something sweet and I do loathe artificial sweeteners..so what's a gal to do?
I bring up this problem because of each time after having my small cup of coffee in the afternoon I crave another and of course I don't cave into the feeling, instead, I end up drinking some herbal tea infusion or similar crap (it's good but really?) but the weather's gotten hotter and I do not feel like drinking the aforementioned anymore instead my brain that runs on carbs and glucose tells me to pick up the Moka pot and make a delicious something something because it's so much easier than making regular tea which I'm enslaved to each morning.
And now coming to my next point.
I've been looking at my earlier food logs, ones from months and a year ago to check what changes have come about in my dietary habits and how much tea and coffee I was consuming and the only discernible change is that I have reduced my meals from three to two.
Earlier I was eating a small breakfast each morning with my cup of tea which included toast, eggs, scrambled eggs or boiled potatoes or leftover roti's with stir-fried vegetables or just plain bread and butter after which I worked out and now I only eat a banana with my cup of morning tea or some eggs before a workout after which I eat my first proper meal of the day.
I was drinking a cup of tea/hot chocolate in the morning and coffee/HC in the afternoon except for a few days where I've mentioned another small cup of coffee or tea around 4pm with a biscuit and left a note to reduce sugar intake.
basically, my problems were the same as they are now and I don't know how to change it. I mean I do know but my brain is such a dick.
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