Just a spoon full of sugar....

I wanted to start a friendly and helpful discussion about SUGARRRR! It's a lot easier with the dos then the don'ts of this challenge! Please, feel free to season your food with sugar if that's what you normally do. ie salad Dressings, oatmeal, etc. The point is to scale back to zero your desserts, ice cream, candy, etc on all days but one-if you choose to take a cheat day. Scaling back can be very hard and I've already had several comments/conversations about it. I hope this will be helpful to all of you having a hard time with it, and would like some more ideas. So...here are some of my ideas and things that have helped me, please tell me yours! 

Fruit, fruit, fruit! The sweetest fruits to help curb my sugar cravings have been watermelon and grapes! Dried fruit is good too but you get a lot more calories for your quantities. Banana chips are delightful but also have a lot of fat from the way they are processed. I just mention these so you don't blow through bags of it in hours and it would've been better to eat a Reese's!

Fresh, delightful, cold fruit is refreshing and healthy! I'd recommend fresh as a more frequent go to. 

I love a banana with a little peanut butter (and even raisins) on it! Peanut butter is good in SMALL quantities. It has both a lot of fat, and well, a lot of sugar too! You can eat too much way fast but it's nice for a little treat. 

Banana bread-Zucchini bread-nice little snacks that aren't desserts but usually have a sweetness to them. Banana nut or blueberry muffins hot from the oven are wonderful! I have a banana bread recipe I love that I'm willing to share if anybody is interested. 

Smoothies!!! Smoothies!!! Smoothies!!! Be careful about the smoothies from the fast food-a lot aren't very good for you. But we love ice, vanilla yogurt, frozen berries, banana, spinach, and some fresh apple juice for ours! In fact, when my daughter asks for ice cream we just make a smoothie! (Most of the time, I love my cheat days.) Whenever I needed something sweet, this always hits the spot. 

Granola and yogurt with some berries or other fruit. 

Frozen fruit bars! So good, outshine had several flavors. My fav? Blueberry pomegranate! 

I love the Hidden Valley granola bars-the honey nut or peanut butter are my favorite. 

Now, tell me your ideas and tricks!