No sugar 30-day challenge: Day 3

I was successful again today.  I woke up and swam this morning.  It was easier to get up, but that could be due more to going off of daylight savings time than my eating changes.  For the past few years, I have eaten a 100-calorie granola bar before exercising in the morning to give myself some energy.  Today the granola bar was out, so I ate dried apricots instead.  They didn’t quite satisfy like the granola bar did.  And that’s the toughest part.  I like to - am used to - snacking on foods like granola, cereal, crackers, etc. and since they all seem to have sugar, I am going to have to change my habits. 

One thing that I did notice is that my morning mood was better than normal. Usually, my mornings are the roughest, most depressing part of the day for me.  In hindsight, this is obvious.  Since I didn’t binge on sugar in the evening, I didn’t wake up with a sugar hangover and have to dig myself out of that self-loathing.  I just didn’t see it when I was doing it.  I was trying to wake up with a new day and new outlook and it just wasn’t happening.

I’ve had a low grade headache all day.  Not enough to do anything about, but enough to notice.  Could I be having withdrawal symptoms or is this another effect of daylight savings time.

For lunch today, instead of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I had a (natural) peanut butter and  banana sandwich.  I also perused the vending machine.  I think I could eat the sunflower seeds if I needed to.