The holidays are upon us and so are all the sugary sweet treats! Sugar is my downfall, my weakness and my addiction. I crave it. I dream about it. I want it all the time. I add sugar to my food when cooking, I'd add it to my tea or juice I was drinking. I love sugar. But sugar does not love me and my body does not love it.
I finally decided I had had enough of this addiction and decided to go for a change. A new me without the grip hold sugar had on me. I had read a bunch about various sugar detoxes, quitting it cold turkey and other various methods. I even downloaded the 21 day sugar detox manuals many months ago but never got up the courage to do this. It seemed too difficult. Too drastic. But this time I knew I had to go for it. Thankfully my wonderful husband said he was up for the challenge and would do it with me.
The day after thanksgiving, Friday, November 28th, I quit sugar. I began day 1 of the 21 Day Sugar Detox. I began that morning with a hard boiled egg and some leftover turkey for breakfast. Lunch was more leftover turkey with some leftover mashed carrot and rutabagas my family calls "carrot n turnip". After a successful but super long shopping trip to buy all the necessary foods to restock our fridge and pantry after clearing them of all the no foods, i began dinner. Broccoli slaw "pasta" with a sugar free tomato sauce and ground turkey sausage. It wasnt until after dinner and after the kids went to bed that I began to have my usual cravings of sugary treats. Thankfully I have none in my house or I might have given in. Instead I snacked on some turkey with some guacamole and cilantro.
Day 2 consisted of the family and I going to some local trails and we walked/ran a total of 2.5 miles. I ran 1 mile of it with 2 of my kiddos who have caught my running bug and we had a fun time of it. Not my fastest mile and we had a few spills but was a fun outing. I had more eggs for breakfast that day and followed it up with the turkey,guac and cilantro "salad" for lunch. Dinner was a homemade meatloaf with the last of the carrot n turnip and some steaming broccoli. My three year old proclaimed the meatloaf was "FANTASTIC!" and my 6 year old son said it was the best meatloaf ever! And my husband, well he went back for 3rds HA! Night fell and once again the cravings returned. This time I snacked on a few pieces of sliced turkey and mozzarella cheese and drank an approved chocolate smoothie. Much more dark chocolate (as its 100% raw cocoa) than I am used to but satisfied the craving for sure.
Today is day 3 and im doing good. A bit more tired than I usually am but its been a busy few days. I slept through breakfast and went to church instead. Came home and made a chipotle shrimp and veggie salad for lunch which was super filling. Planning on having cilantro lime chicken with some homemade sweet potato fries for dinner. Sweet potatoes are an energy modification that athletes and nursing mothers are allowed to have while on level 1 of the detox. Im not a huge fan of them but a few with dinner wont hurt I suppose. My husband on the other hand would eat them daily so he is happy he can still have them.
While doing this sugar detox I am also doing a running challenge. Of course got to add in the running as this is a running blog for the most part. This challenge is the Runners World Runstreak Challenge. You have to run at least 1 mile every single day between Thanksgiving and New Years. Now I have seen these challenges many a time but I have yet to complete one. I dont run daily. Every other day and sometimes skipping 2 days before running again is what I'd do. But I decided I would go for it. So I began on thanksgiving with a nice, cold 5k around my neighborhood and actually ran the fastest 5k I had done all year. It wasnt a PR but still faster than Ive done in a while. My marathon training kind of took away from my speed training over the last few months so i just havent ran fast in a while. But that is going to change.
Next up is my new half training. I am signing up for a local half marathon and my goal is to PR it. Not only get a PR but kick that races butt. I want to dominate. I want to finish knowing I did everything I possibly could and just have my best race ever. So I am kicking my training into high gear. Tomorrow is day 1 of this new training plan and I cannot wait to be out there every day doing what I need to do to kill it at my next race. Ive heard run streaking helps many so im hoping it helps me in addition to my new running plan. Ive added more strength training days to my plan, dedicated intervals and track workouts to work on speed and some nice pace work as well. I am going to do this and Im going to do it well. Goal is set and Steph is going to RUN this 13.1!
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