Fat Doesn't Make you Fat....Sugar Does!

So today is the start of my first day of transformation including no sugar!  I am eating some fruits but other than that....NO SUGAR....at all, in anything....even sugar alcohol.  So here is part of the reason why.  You might find some of these facts interesting. 

Problems with fructose:

• It makes us eat more and more
• It converts directly into fat

"Eating fructose is like eating fat that your body can't detect as fat...and makes us eat more fat." David Gillespie Sweet Poison
That is so true for me.  I get the munchies in the afternoon and I find that I eat one snack and then I want more and more and more and I don't feel full.  Fructose is the one thing in our body that does not tell us when we need to stop, it only feeds the fire.  That's why we can sit and eat a whole sleeve of oreos and a bag of chips without stopping to breathe and then it will hit you later when it's already too late! Then you feel horrible and the damage has been done.

Some fun food facts:

• Table sugar=50% fructose, 50% sucrose
• Banana=55% sugar-half of which is fructose
• Honey=40% fructose
• Agave=up to 90% fructose

Here is a quote that is going to help me through this process and which I will read everyday and whenever I am struggling:

"Change doesn't happen with an about-face.  It happens by building up habits in our minds.  Slowly, by flexing regularly, we build new neural pathways in our brains until we're doing things differently, effortlessly.  So every day that we flex our "I'm not eating sugar, thanks" musicle, the stronger we get."  Sarah Wilson I Quit Sugar

My menu today so far: (I am trying to eat as raw as I can)

Breakfast: oatmeal, chopped up raw pumpkin seeds
Snack: 2 raw unpeeled organic carrots
Lunch: Homemade guacamole over toasted brown rice bread (no gluten or dairy for me!)
Snack: Green smoothie with spinach, banana, strawberry, wheatgrass and 1 tbsp EFA's
Dinner will be: Chicken breast with tomato sauce over green salad with raw broccoli

Also a whole load of new supplements that I have started today that will help with digestion, immune system and more such as enzymes, probiotics, Vitamin B, E, L-Glutamine, Coconut oil, Colostrum, Zinc and blood and skin rejuvinator.  Also consuming a Barley and Aloe juice everyday and water and lemons up the ying yang.