How's the sugar challenge, you ask? We had friends over for dinner last night. The menu included steak, potatoes, grilled broccoli with mushrooms and salad. I skipped the potatoes, since I am already trying to cut down on carbohydrates in general. And since I love to cook and can control the menu, steak, broccoli, mushrooms and salad were all wonderful and very satisfying. I even put a little butter on my broccoli which I haven't done in twenty years, at least. My husband, however, stopped at Marie Callender's and bought a cherry pie (my favorite) and vanilla ice cream (my other favorite). Honestly, it wasn't that bad saying "no" to the dessert. But I'm only three days into it and so still very motivated.
In the last post, I recommended two books. Dr. Lustig is also featured in a UCSF TV series called: The Skinny on Obesity. This is a seven part series, but the episodes are generally under 15 minutes each. Really, you can find a few minutes here and there to watch this. This is not just important if you are overweight. This is not an epidemic, but a pandemic, affecting all of the developed world and mostly our most precious asset, our children. I know I sound like I'm on a soapbox....well, maybe I am. And if you are not overweight, consider TOFI: Thin on the Outside; Fat on the Inside. According to the medical experts that are in the forefront of the fight on obesity, 40% of all normal weight people are getting fat on the inside. Forty percent and on the increase!!!
So was I completely successful? Well, that's debatable. I did have a couple of glasses of wine. So I looked this up. During fermentation, the sugar in wine is broken down into alcohol and yeast. The residual sugar in a glass of dry red wine is about 1 gram. Spirits is much less. So I guess martinis are in order......do I go too far? FYI, beer has no sucrose in it at all. The sugar in beer is maltose, which, apparently we metabolize just fine. Understanding how we metabolize sugars was also an eye opener, and helps explain why sugar really is addictive. According to some doctors, more addictive than cocaine or heroine. More on how we metabolize sugar in my next post.
And as for the wine? Well, I'm taking it one day at a time. I never claimed to be perfect!!
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