Day 26

Brekky - small bowl of oats with blueberries, a banana, some strawberries and half a bread roll. Was super hungry!

Snacks - other half of that bread roll & some low fat, low sugar potato chips (crisps, but known as chips over here. Sorry England)

Lunch - zucchini boats

Activity - 50 mins on treadmill & a yoga class 

Dinner - chickpea burger in a wholemeal bun with tomato and avocado, served with a side salad (spinach, sweetcorn, tomato, capsicum and cucumber)

Snacks - stayed up late so scarfed down some more potato chips and some strawberries

Next stage in the plan

I'm on day 8 of no sugary teas and day 5 of no nuts and so far, so good. 

So onto the next stages - which, while I won't be implementing for a little while as I've just done a big grocery shop, is definitely worth having in my head so I'm mentally prepared for the upcoming changes. In order of importance:

1) STOP buying bbq sauce and baked beans - they are loaded with sugar! :( 

2) Buy Weet Bix instead of cornflakes. Cornflakes aren't actually too bad but might as well go healthier where I can re: sugar content 

3) Take it easy on avocados, mangoes and bananas. I'm not going too badly with these but need to keep tabs on sugary/high cal fruit intake

4) Buy sourdough or rye bread (lower sugar and seed oil content than wholemeal bread). Not sure what these are going to be like but I'm okay giving it a go...if they're yuck it might even help me cut down on bread which would be a definite bonus! 

5) Swap the brand of wraps I buy (Mission) for something lower in sugar - again, the content isn't too bad but if the price isn't wildly high I might as well make the switch

6) Also those healthy cereal bars I buy are low in cals but contain 13g of sugar per 100g, and according to this new book I'm reading you should avoid anything over 3g per 100g...it's the dried fruit but surely they're alright to keep eating? By the author's logic, potato chips are actually healthier as a snack than a concoction of seeds, nuts and dried fruit? This is the thing, you can make a shopping list based on one author's dietary recommendations but another nutritionist might take a look at it and completely rework it.