✦Nutrition · 12 recordsCut down on sugar

Most added sugar is not in obvious sweets, it is in drinks and everyday products nobody suspects. This finds where yours actually comes from over a week, then changes the two largest sources — which is nearly all of the benefit for very little willpower.

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Goal

Two big sources gone, for good Month 3

Most of the benefit, very little willpower.

Find where it is Week 3

It is rarely where people assume.

  • Write down everything I drink for a weekDo firstDay 7
  • Check the labels on the everyday thingsDo firstWeek 2
  • Name my two biggest sourcesDo firstWeek 3

Change those two Month 3

Two, not everything. That is why it lasts.

  • Replace the first one and hold it a fortnightDo firstWeek 5
  • Replace the secondMonth 2
  • Check at three months whether they stuckMonth 3

Routines

  • Eat properly at mealsdaily
  • Note anything I missedweekly
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Two sources, not a purge

Attempting to cut it out entirely is why most of these last nine days. Changing the two largest sources gets most of the benefit and survives a birthday.\n\nCravings are much worse when meals are skipped, which is why eating properly is a routine here rather than an afterthought.

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Cut down on sugar, answered.

Drinks, usually, and then everyday savoury products people never check. Finding your own two largest sources is the first week here, because guessing produces a plan aimed at the wrong things.
No, and attempting to is why most of these last nine days. Changing the two biggest sources gets most of the benefit and survives a birthday, which total elimination reliably does not.
They fade over a couple of weeks, and they are much worse when meals are skipped. The plan pairs the reduction with eating properly rather than treating willpower as the whole method.
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