Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 42

August 25, 2021 Day 42 When I find a place like Planted Eats (Montville, NJ), it makes me happy. Yesterday I had lunch with a friend who shares my tastes in healthy food and also loves this cafe. I enjoyed the Beets Buddha Bowl with spinach, quinoa, grape tomatoes, black beans, walnuts, green olives, and cashew cream, and of course no added sugar anywhere. To drink, I had a homemade turmeric, ginger tonic. I love food. But there was a time I loved food that didn’t love me. You know the stuff we all grew up on – the Standard American Diet – or as I refer to it – SAD. Then there was a time that I just ate low calorie food, and was sad. Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar free Year - Day 41

August 24, 2021 Day 41 I had a really great day yesterday with lots of clarity around what is important in life. Relationships was at the top of the list both with friends, and family. Do you know what is not important? Buying Halloween candy now! Or at all. (I just heard boo’s). But really, it’s already in the stores and it’s August. I’m glad I am not tempted by junk Halloween candy, but this was not always so. As I’ve been weaning off sugar for years, the candy is just no good when you enjoy the taste of real food. Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 40

August 23, 2021 Day 40 How does grief play into our relationship with sugar? It’s been an emotional week for me and my friends who loved our friend Mary who left this physical world one year ago on August 23, 2020. It’s one of the first big milestones, a reminder of what was. Friends have been gathering or calling, and supporting one another. Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 39

August 22, 2021 Day 39 Last night I asked a friend to get together and he suggested bringing a bottle of red wine over to sit on the porch and visit. We hadn’t seen each other in a while so he didn’t know about My Sugar Free Year, and I didn’t tell him until he came over with the wine. So, he and my husband drank the wine, while I drank my life-giving, healing, hydrating water! Another sugar free day! Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 38

August 21, 2021 Day 38 Because I’ve made my sugar free year so public, my friends have my back. Thank you, friends for reminding me that there might be hidden sugars in the beet salad you ordered that I wanted to taste! When I look at what I’m doing through other’s eyes, it seems that I’m a bit obsessive and I guess this challenge is somewhat extreme. But I’m still glad I am doing it for the experience. If I were not committed to writing about it every day and posting, and without my family and friends keep me on track, I wouldn’t be able to stay sugar free. Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 37

August 20, 2021 Day 37 I’m planning a brunch for this Sunday, so yesterday I ran out to the grocery and liquor stores in between calls and meetings for things I needed to serve. I’m making quinoa and spinach egg cups, potatoes and peppers, fruit salad, and the rest is off limits for me. We’ll serve bagels with lox, croissants, and zucchini bread (all containing added sugar). To drink I’ll make peppermint iced tea, sparkling water with lemon, and coffee. Oh, and mimosas, but not for me. I plan to have my sugar free drink in a wine glass! Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 36

August 19, 2021 Day 36 My mood and energy were pretty good yesterday. I drank my usual green smoothie that I’d prepared Tuesday afternoon even after learning Tuesday night about how protein isolates are made. A hexane (byproduct of gasoline and a neurotoxin) bath is used to separate the protein from the fats and carbohydrates. I immediately started researching this new information to learn more. Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 36

August 18, 2021 Day 36 My no added sugar meals went fine yesterday, but in the afternoon, I had trouble concentrating. I don’t know if I was bored with the work I was doing or what was going on. I kept taking breaks from my desk to prep dinner, fold some laundry, bring in the garbage can, all thing that needed to get done, but I’m grateful they were there to help me with my lack of concentration and focus. Around 5:00 pm I decided to stop and meditate and felt so much more relaxed, and calm. Here’s the 17-minute guided meditation I followed if you’d like to try it. Read More

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Mary Ellen Zung

My Sugar Free Year - Day 35

August 17, 2021 Day 35 Wow 35 days. For some reason, this just got harder. Maybe it’s that initial excitement about starting and doing something new, but then it fades. That’s me for sure. I get excited about new projects and then sometimes lose momentum. It’s ironic too because I am always encouraging clients to make small steps and then work on consistency until it is no longer a challenge. And when you falter, it’s okay, reflect on the behavior, the cause, and try something else. My clients know I always talk about breaking the behavior chain way up at the start of the chain, so you don’t get too far down the wrong road. Read More

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My Sugar Free Year - Day 34

August 16, 2021
Day 34

We are back home safe and sound after ten days of being away with only 1 ½ days in between to unpack and repack. After traveling in the car, it was great to get into the garden yesterday afternoon to stretch and bend and weed and prune, and water and clean up after ten days of neglect.

Dinner was Chinese takeout (no sauce for me) which gave me time to make a meal plan and grocery list for the week, clean out the fridge with any old left overs, and prepare my morning green smoothie with fresh fruit, spinach, ginger, pea protein, turmeric, etc. I feel organized for the week ahead after being away and carefree.

I’m so grateful to my brother and sister-in-law for helping with my sugar free weekend. They even packed lunch for us for the trip back home including chicken salad with Primal Kitchen mayonnaise containing avocado oil and no sugar. I was impressed that my SIL found it, bought it and made it for us. I have the same brand in my fridge too.

Back to work today, and I’ll squeeze in the grocery shopping and some cooking too.

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