~ Day Six ~

Surrender Your Sweet Tooth.
Not only does added sugar do zilch for you nutritionally, it can also trigger a binge. Your body digests sugar quickly, so your blood sugar level spikes, the hormone insulin rushes in to lower it and you're left with a low blood sugar level, which makes you hungry. Today, check the labels of your favorite foods and ditch anything that has more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. (The exception is dairy, because of naturally occurring milk sugar.) It's better to sate a sugar craving with a complex carb like fruit, which comes wrapped with fiber. Refined carbs such as bagels and white rice also unleash the spike-and-plummet effect, so try to reach for whole grains whenever possible.

Obviously, the sugar is why my diet has failed the past two days. Tomorrow, I plan on nixing all unnatural sugars from my diet for the rest of the weekend. We shall see how it works. And, I have to remember that weigh-in begins MONDAY!