21 Day Sugar Detox Recap

So my goal was to manage:

#1 Sleep
#2 Mood swings
#3 Definition.

For starters, I cheated. A few times. BUT, I think it maybe will help bring light to my goals... Basically, I had alcohol three times, a few sugar cured pork breakfast items, and disgusting powdered egg meals that were probably cut with gross things. Otherwise, I was as super strict as possible. No fruit whatsoever, no nuts, and no intentionally added sweeteners. I did have white potatoes quite a bit, but I work out a lot. Should be okay...

SLEEP:
Well, combined with getting an AC in my apartment, good! Less "restless" nights, laying in bed staring at the ceiling for an hour (or back of my eyelids, totally not sleeping). So I might consider this a success for that.

MOOD SWINGS:
Here's the tricky one. Still having mood problems. I crashed pretty hard this weekend. BUT, I cheated with my 4 tequila drinks on Saturday, and crashed on Sunday... Coincident? Otherwise, I did still have quite a few mental noshes, really bad after the grossed processed foods while traveling for work. Again, coincident? I think maybeeee not.

DEFINITION:
I have to compare my pictures, yet. From what I can see doesn't look much different...

OTHER THINGS NOTED:
I ate a lot of food. I craved salt. I was pretty gassy. But I didn't poop as much. Weird, I know. You probably don't want to hear that, but it's super true. My skin broke out really bad when this first started, but it's cleared up a lot and is mostly clear now.

I feel like I successfully kicked a dependence on nuts and fruit as a daily snack. Of course, it helps that my CSA is overloaded with tomatoes and that was a pretty daily snack for me. I've gotten better about the protein (HB eggs) at snack time, and cut back on some of the mindless eating around my house (carrots and almond butter). I still love my carrots, though... And I will bring nuts back into my diet now. Maybe just not so heavily. As for the fruit, I don't think I'll buy any or depend on it for snacks. If it's there as a dessert I will have some, but keep it under control. As for the alcohol... I'm sure I'll drink again, haha. But I will definitely keep track of the mood swings after. OH! And dairy! I forgot all about the fact I gave up dairy for 21 days, ha! Well, I'm sure it slipped into quite a few of the processed crap I ate while traveling, but for the most part I didn't eat it. I will add butter back in. And cheese when I'm out and it's there. Otherwise, I don't think I'll buy it. Which I really haven't been anyway for the past month, maybe more. But I do miss it.

PS- I want coffee. Really really bad. I don't usually crave coffee, but giving up coffee and black tea (mostly; I still did drink a few times), realllyyyy makes me crave it when I smell it now. Oh, and I had mad cravings for breads when I could smell it. Weird. Probably my body running on mad ketones (maybe, I'm just assuming) was like WOAH easy energy. But I didn't cave. But I could go for a glazed donut...