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The problem is I am a KETCHUHOLIC!!!

Ketchup means to me, what chocolate means to a chocoholic. Ketchup makes everything taste better – obviously not cereal, that’s just weird.

For years I had made myself believe ketchup was good, that it was part of my 5 a day.  I was working out 5 days a week and I was getting into a healthy diet but would be swayed by the odd biscuit or pub lunch and would of course have a big dollop of ketchup with everything I could. All this exercise and I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted, don’t get me wrong I’m not and wasn’t expecting to turn out like a supermodel, I just wanted to be happy, healthy and feel confident.

Working hard and seeing no results made me start to look further at what the issues could be which deep down I knew was my diet. Never did I think it would involve giving up my beloved *GASP* ketchup. But it did and does.

My mum came from work the other day raving about how she was going to give up sugar and that sugar was the devil in disguise. It wasn’t until I had listened to her say; sugar free isn’t sugar free, hidden sugars, fructose, sucrose and glucose 1 billion times… did I realise that sugar was my demon. My mum wasn’t giving up sugar alone, she had purchased the I QUIT SUGAR DETOX, by the I quit sugar queen Sarah Wilson and after reading the first few pages I knew like Sarah said, it was time to face the facts.

1. I was eating way more sugar than my body needed. Women only require six teaspoons of sugar a day and I don’t just mean in your cuppa. But that really isn’t a lot.

2. I’M  ADDICTED. I’d cave if someone offered me some chocolate and I wouldn’t hesitate to go back for seconds!

3. WEIGHT ISN’T SHIFTING 

4. TIRED

Realising the above, I knew I couldn’t not give up sugar, how hard could it be right?

I Quit Sugar is an 8 – week programme which I have condensed into 6 weeks, to fall in line with my holiday!