Hi everyone!  I'm feeling very proud of myself for working out how to set up this blog all by myself!  It is Saturday, April 7th, the day before the biggest Chocolate day of the year and 48 hours before I launch my plan for a total body and mind metamorphosis.  (Boy that's a big word!!)  This blog has been set up to record my progress, publicly, of how I go ridding myself of a life long addiction to sugar, caffeine wheat and overuse and abuse of exercise.
  My desire to do this has be been born out of sheer frustration, disappointment, and a long list of failed attempts to improve my health and lose weight permanently.  After many years of trying as multitude of different weight loss plans, exercise regimes and dietary supplements and vitamins I think I've finally worked it all out.  Or more importantly, I've worked out what DOESN'T WORK! - for me.  
  On the 11th of Feb this year I was just 59 kilos, a weight I hadn't seen on the scales for 25 years!  This had been achieved by keeping a food diary, counting calories, restricting my diet around to around 1000 cals a day by eating lots of protein bars, limited carbs and a punishing and religious daily jogging and exercise plan.  I started this regime on the 1st of Jan this year weighing 68 kilos, and after just 7 weeks, lost 9 kilos.  BUT - it left me weak, sleep deprived, exhausted,  and craving sugar like so many times before.   So started the next 2 months of a massive binge eating attack, which has left me feeling like total crap and in a physical mess, to say the least and totally bewildered and frustrated at my compulsive, emotional behavior. So about 4 weeks ago, I started researching online for the causes of binge eating and stumbled upon a YouTube video that totally rocked my world!  "Sugar, the Bitter Truth". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
 For the next 4 weeks, every spare moment I had was spent researching, reading, studying and analyzing the overwhelming data available about this subject, that sugar - or more to the point, the Fructose part of sugar,  is an addictive, toxic substance, that has created a world wide epidemic of obesity. 
  My ability to sustain what I thought was a healthy diet was being sabotaged by my addiction to sugar and it's sinister chemical attack on my body and brain.  I have also discovered that I am highly sensitive to carbohydrates such as wheat and therefore need to be super careful as to my intake of all grains.  I have always known that caffeine affects me negatively, and will also be cutting it out of my diet as of Monday.  
  So that's the basis of my new attempt to change my world, and I would love to share it with the world in the hope of helping others in any way I can.  
 My next post will be Monday night.  I hope you can join me for the ride, forgive my ramblings and read my blog with an open mind and loving spirit.
Cheers, Tam.