The headaches and low energy lasted a week. Then, as soon as you get a streak going of a number of days you've managed to do without, it's so much easier to battle on. I practiced a technique too, where, when my brain was going, "let's just have some sugar," I said, '"but what if I don't just have it?" Questioning my craving was so powerful because I realized I could choose not to give in to it. I drank more water, which satisfied the craving for a bit. It was almost like my body was trying to tell my brain that it needed sugar. My body was like,"if we're going to survive this crazy day, we're going to need some help from a chocolate bar." Sugar withdrawal symptoms In the first week, you feel so determined to do it that you don't notice the cravings- you've got an action plan.
I was having healthier meals, too, like a stir fry for dinner. That meant cutting out sweets, candy, cookies, even tomato ketchup. My rule for the 30 days was that I wasn't allowed to have anything that had sugar in its ingredients list.
Initially, I decided to give up sugar for 30 days as I knew that's how long it would take to get the sugar out of my system and also to establish new habits of eating fresh food and vegetables as opposed to convenient foods that you would find in the pantry. If I said I was just going to have 100g of sugar, for example, I knew would end up having 120g or 150g. So the day after the night-time cookie incident, I realized I was going to have to nip this in the bud. It becomes a cycle of not being kind to yourself. You're almost filled with shame, too, and you turn on yourself. You have a mood high and then suddenly your mood dips down again and you feel even worse than before. It would would work-but not for very long. Clarke has found she has more energy than ever following her 60-day sugar detox. You notice yourself saying, "what's the point" and "I'm not doing great today." So then you think, what can I do to make myself happier? I would turn to sugar-eating candy, cookies or chocolate to try and improve my mood. When my energy levels were low, I'd have pretty negative thoughts. By 5 o'clock, I'd often give up, get into my pajamas and relax on the couch or go to bed, as opposed to fitting in a run in the evening or taking my two young kids to the park. I would feel despondent because my energy levels were so up and down. When your energy levels are low, you feel unmotivated. In those dips, where some people turn to caffeine, I would turn to sugar and go buy some candy from the shop. I would have extreme highs and then I would have massive afternoon dips where I would struggle to pick my head up off the couch.
My energy levels would fluctuate enormously. I was just grabbing convenient foods without any thought. Sometimes I'd just have fries for dinner. I would snack throughout the day-on chips, cookies and candy-and then go without main meals because I wasn't hungry. The next day I wondered why I allowed myself to be controlled by my sugar cravings. I had thought: "As I'm up, I might as well." It was 11.30pm in March, 2022 and I woke up, needing to go to the toilet, but I found myself going down the stairs of my home in Manchester, England, and eating two chocolate cookies. I remember the exact moment when I realized I was dependent on sugar.
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