Natalie Thinks

I am about to embark along with a whole lot of other people on 21 days without bread or sugar.  Read more about the initiative here.    I think perhaps one of the only ways I might actually do this is if I blog about it here.  I’ll be blogging as a very ordinary human being who is 44, a mother to 4 and leads a fairly busy, moderately healthy(?) lifestyle. The challenge has come at a favourable time for me as I had been exploring the Real Food/ Tim Noakes/ Banting/ LCHF way of eating and whilst I accept and laud the broad strokes (lots more veg, less refined stuff) I find it hard, nearly impossible in terms of time, money and taste, to follow it legalistically.  So this challenge which focusses on just sugar and wheat seems much more do-able.  I don’t have to stress about whether butternut is orange or green (banting joke). Also I find 21 days do-able.  Of course I know the goal is to change my habits and to feel so wonderful that I will turn my back on sugar and wheat and be