Lent

I'm going to have a good bash at cutting my sugar consumption.

I never previously had a sweet tooth - always preferring savoury, cheese, cold meets, fruit etc - but since I killed the booze, I seem to have developed a worrying propensity to binge eat sweets - and I've even dabbled with awful energy drinks?!

I'm not going to go all "life-style craze" with it - ie I will still have bread and fruit juice etc - just will be avoiding the known obvious naughties, most of the time.  It shows Lenten willing !

I’ve though hard about what to give up for Lent, 

I have decided on all food except boiled rice. 

That is a decidedly HARDCORE approach, and not a particularly wise one in my opinion, unless you are going to get your essential vitamins and minerals from supplements?  I haven't got any special knowledge in the fields of nutrition and gut health....and I would imagine that boiled rice is better than some of the other extreme regimes of diet that I have read about....but even so, I would be careful with your body and especially your gut.

I'll be interested to know how it works out for you so please keep us updated.

That is a decidedly HARDCORE approach, and not a particularly wise one in my opinion, unless you are going to get your essential vitamins and minerals from supplements?  I haven't got any special knowledge in the fields of nutrition and gut health....and I would imagine that boiled rice is better than some of the other extreme regimes of diet that I have read about....but even so, I would be careful with your body and especially your gut.

I'll be interested to know how it works out for you so please keep us updated.

Groovy.  Hardcore.  Will be interested to know how you feel after 3 weeks.  Good luck - I'm rooting for you.

Im thinking just boiled rice, 

surely 40 days should be okay,  I will be drinking earl grey tea. 

Are you intending to have supplements for your vitamins and minerals.....or are you literally only going to be eating boiled rice?

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I'll be interested to know how it works out for you so please keep us updated.

Will do, it’s going okay so far, early days though. Good luck with the sugar reduction.

Good luck with cutting the sugar  down!