content note: the last paragraph (behind the cut) talks about measuring weight; the rest is about what food I've been eating.

For the first week of the no sugar challenge, it wasn't particularly difficult. And then, this week? I've really struggled. I suspect if I'd had a block of chocolate stashed at work, I would have eaten the whole thing the day I tried to work out where my tangled if then logic had failed when, the day before, I had foolishly tried to patch two bugs and solve another problem simultaneously. Yes, I should have known better.

That might have been the day that I ate the muesli bar out of the stash, or might be the day that I finally ate the small size snickers bar I've been carrying around for weeks. Basically, I hit 'chocolate is no longer optional' for that second one.

And yesterday, I was looking for food at the time I was at the servo, and there aren't a lot of good options. I picked the probably least worst option, and got a small single serve blueberry yoghurt. Which doesn't appear to have particularly disrupted my innards. But was still more sugar than I really wanted. I did manage to stick to the no sugar idea when I stopped to get Youngest's afternoon tea, and grabbed a drink -- tried the diet Bundaberg ginger beer. I won't be doing that again. Yes, the general ginger beer is too sweet, but this was that plus weird aftertaste.

I'm trying to decide whether aiming to get through the next two weeks sugar free, and then calling it done, is enough of a sop to my pride in the "I can do this" or whether I want to aim for something else. I certainly don't want to then cycle through adding another week each time I make the choice to consume sugar. Equally, I don't want to set a specific number of days to achieve. And I'm concerned that if I let it run on too long, I'm going to bounce back afterwards with a 'shove everything in my mouth' approach.

next paragraph is about measuring weight:

Because the co-worker who did this challenge a while ago went really hard on the no sugar and lost several kilos, I've been tracking my weight with roughly daily measurements. I'm not aiming for consistency, I'm not particularly fussed if it goes up or down, although losing a bit of waist would be good because some of my summer dresses are tighter than I'm comfortable with wearing at work. Before the challenge, I would typically read in the 71-73 kg range. In the last few days, I've had measurements of 69 and 74 kg. I have no idea why I'm getting more variable, but I suspect it has to do with frequency of measurement.