Never would have guessed...

After I have this child my goal is to go on the no-sugar diet. Not because I think its an incredibly awesome diet or anything or that I believe in dieting, rather I will call it a sugar fast. I want to fast from refined sugar for the rest of the year, so I feel I have more control over my body in regards to the sweets department. I give in so easily when something sweet especially chocolaty is in front of me or in my home. I want to be able to say no after one or two or none at all. I don't want to eat Oreo's by the sleeve. I want to eat a serving size of ice cream, or not buy a candy bar everything single time I go to the grocery store. So I have been evaluating what has large amounts of sugar in it and what seems pretty reasonable because lets be honest there's not much out there without sugar. I might as well go gluten free. I pretty much kicked out the obvious no sweet candy, chocolate, soda, ice cream, juice, or pastry type, but I wanted to be a little more aware of my sugar intake. A friend of mine who did this diet gave her self an allowance of 100 g of sugar a day. This really focus' you in on your intake. So I am checking out things I eat every day, like yogurts, bread, jam, pasta's, and the big one, cereal. While eating my cereal dinner tonight I was checking out labels of 4 different kinds of cereal. I found some surprising results. The lowest on the list was Life Maple and Brown Sugar with 8 g per serving, then Frosted Flakes with 10 g ps, Froot Loops with 11 g ps, and the loser of the whole group was Raisin Bran Crunch with a whopping 20 g ps. I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure it would have been Froot Loops. The difference is I can eat one serving of Raisin Bran Crunch, but I can eat 3 servings of Froot Loops.