When entering your 20s, you expect to grow out of certain things—braces, food pickiness , and your propensity for boy bands. Unfortunately for me, two major problems still linger: my blemish-prone skin and my undying love of sugar.
Since moving to New York City, I've indulged in all the buzzworthy sweets—the cronut, Dough doughnuts, Ladurée macarons, Georgetown cupcakes, gelato from Little Italy, and a questionable amount of bizarrely great cookies from our office's cafeteria. I began to rationalize my sugar-laden choices:"A sweet a few times a week is perfectly acceptable," I'd think."I'm walking so much now that I'm in the city," I'd tell myself.
He suggested that if I reduce my intake by two-thirds, then I could see a decrease in inflammatory acne lesions and redness by as early as six days. Translation? Less sugar=better skin. Motivated and ready for a change, I set goals for what felt like it would be the longest week of my life. I would eat absolutely no processed sugar for seven days—with the hope that I would live to tell the tale .
After reading the labels on nearly everything I picked up in the grocery store, I was appalled by how many packaged foods, sauces, and"naturally flavored" drinks had added sugar in them. I was forced to buy everything fresh and make meals from scratch. It was more work, but it was rewarding knowing that what I was putting in my body was good for me and untainted by processed—albeit delicious—crap.Never get a craving for cereal when attempting this experiment.
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