Coffee, hold the sugar!

Well friends, it has been 2 months since I wrote my last post on “Coffee…no sugar?” and I have been going strong without hesitation on holding the sugar in  my coffee. I firmly believe now that at one point what I thought was impossible to do has been done with enthusiasm and confidence. I never thought I could have my coffee without sugar or some kind of sweetener in it. When I say ‘no sugar’ I mean no sweeteners of any kind, artificial or otherwise. Of course in light of this, I have also cut out artificial sweeteners from my diet. I have been very conscious in avoiding products with artificial sweeteners in it and now that I have been away from it for 2 months, as soon as I taste it, it tastes extremely sweet to me and unnatural. My favorite was fruit yogurt not knowing it contains aspartame and other artificial ingredients outside of real yogurt. I’ve found that I’m getting much less of the yogurt and a lot more of the artificial ingredients and preservatives. Who needs that?

Getting back to coffee however, I plan to continue having coffee without sweeteners. I’ve experimented and tried different things as I went along to see my reaction towards natural sweeteners in the coffee. I tried putting natural raw honey in it, it was fine but I found I preferred no sweeteners and that I liked the taste of coffee (with milk) as it was. I also tried organic evaporated cane juice granuals and I found I didn’t need any sweeteners in my coffee after all. Oh well, I’ll use it for something else. I actually discovered a new product which I had not known existed here in the U.S. since I have known about it in India and currently use it in a different form. The evaporated sugar cane juice that I bought in its granular form is a sweetener called “gur” or jaggery very well known to Indians. It is available abundantly in India and is very inexpensive. It has been used for centuries to sweeten cooking dishes and desserts. I was very surprised to have found this “gur” in the supermarket. I liked the granular consistency which can be used by the spoon.

This type of doing led me to reading about the power of your mind and what it is capable of given the determination. That book will be a separate post coming up soon. For now though, I am happy to say that I am free from sugar cravings!! I can walk down the cookie, dessert or bakery isles in the supermarket and I am not craving or salivating over the sweet stuff. I do not have the urge to buy them and bring them home. I walk by them now and look at all those products in awe thinking how unhealthy they are for you and instead of seeing them as cookies, etc. I see the list of 20 or more ingredients that I do not recognize. What a transformation. I feel strong and empowered and in control of my body…and mind. So the “I” in control of “my” are two different things. The “I”, is the consciousness in control of “my” which is the form “my body”, “my mind”, etc. I am that consciousness that is aware of such things. I can never look at myself the same way again!