{"id":9198,"date":"2021-01-19T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9198"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","slug":"sugar-fast-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9198","title":{"rendered":"SUGAR FAST DAY 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0At day 8, maybe Melissa and I have made it through the worst part of our 21 day sugar fast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people report headaches during withdrawal on day 2 or 3 as the last bits of sugar leave their systems. I must have had plenty of extra sugar in my system &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get a headache until day 6! (Hard to shake the last molecules of chocolate covered Santas from my blood stream apparently.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa continues to work culinary magic with extremely limited ingredients, so we are not starving. (But this evening she tried to make some cookies with almond flour and sugar-free chocolate chips and let&#8217;s just say that my one cookie was a &#8220;lifetime supply&#8221;.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday we took our oldest daughter back to Olivet for the new semester &#8211; that&#8217;s a 3 and a quarter hour drive each way. It was a bit of a hassle trying to stick to our fast since all fast food is strictly taboo. We had to buy vegetables at the Kroger near campus and eat them with some pre-grilled chicken as we drove back to Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not surprisingly, I have lost at least 4 pounds at this point.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven&#8217;t found myself seriously tempted to cheat yet. Even Saturday when we celebrated our youngest daughter&#8217;s 14th birthday and I spent two hours decorating her cake, up to my elbows in marshmallow fondant icing. I actually find it easier to cut something out entirely than to cut back on it. The first involves one decision and that&#8217;s that. The second leads to too many internal dialogues and too many opportunities to justify &#8220;just a little bit more&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210116_140006_982-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"1952\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0At day 8, maybe Melissa and I have made it through the worst part of our 21 day sugar fast.\u00a0 Some people report headaches during withdrawal on day 2 or 3 as the last bits of sugar leave their systems. I must have had plenty of extra sugar in my system &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9200,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions\/9200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}