00:00Hey Naturally Curly World, I'm Christina and for the next two weeks we're giving up sugar.
00:05I didn't invent this challenge.
00:07I had everyone vote on what they wanted to give up in January and no sugar won.
00:12It wasn't me.
00:13I voted for a no meat challenge because I know what my limitations are.
00:19Straight up, I'm gonna fail.
00:21Like let's just get that out of the way.
00:22I turn up so hard and my turn up includes beer.
00:28The challenge means no sugar, no sugar substitutes, so that would be like honey or agave.
00:37Look I read the guidelines and I didn't retain that.
00:41I really didn't because I was like no.
00:44No artificial sweeteners, that's like aspartame.
00:48No high glycemic fruits, so that's bananas, cherries, mangoes.
00:52I am Jamaican and Trinidadian and I can't not have mangoes.
00:59It's a perfect fruit, it's the perfect color.
01:02I'm gonna be at Fiesta in the produce section just like ma'am, ma'am are you singing as we
01:08come to the, are you singing Brian McKnight to the mangoes?
01:12It looks like sunshine and I want that in my life and in my body.
01:17We come to the end of the road, still I can't let go.
01:28No refined sugar, pastas, white breads, I think that will be the hardest thing for me.
01:36And then no soda, like juice, sweetened drinks.
01:41I'm going to try to not touch Dr. Pepper and Sprite.
01:47Those are my weaknesses.
01:48I don't even have a sweet tooth, I have a sweet mouth, like all of them are sweet teeth.
01:53My one true wish is that this will clear up my skin.
01:57That's what I will be picturing every time I reach for something that might have sugar in
02:00it.
02:01Fourteen days goes by, I don't want to see not nary a fine line, like I don't even want
02:08to see a fine perforated line on my face, like all this stress better be evaporated.
02:14I guess maybe I should take it more seriously, but I like my life the way that it is and trying
02:22to change all of that by taking away sugar, no.
02:28So we'll see, we'll see, I may be a puddle of headaches and tears and mood swings and
02:37low energy in a few days, we'll just have to see.
02:40Alright you guys, I hope you're ready for it to get weird because the HEB already knows
02:45I'm crazy.
02:46Let's do this, really like you do it and good luck.
02:51It's now after 7pm, I haven't eaten solid food since 9am this morning.
03:03I can't move, I did go to hot yoga in between and worked out really hard and now I just don't
03:10have the energy to get up and cook or go to a restaurant.
03:13So please send help!
03:16It's day 1 of the sugar-free challenge, um, quite frankly I've been losing it pretty
03:21tangibly today.
03:22I don't want this to be the thing that costs me my job.
03:25I'm sorry for the shaking, but the withdrawals have started.
03:29I am full blown starving, like, I'm about to go to the store and get a piece of meat right
03:34quick.
03:35I am having trouble concentrating.
03:39Okay.
03:40Bye.
03:41Good morning, it's day 3.
03:43I am making breakfast and I'm making enough that if I haven't figured something else out
03:49by lunch, I can eat this again.
03:51Just in case.
03:52I had a dream that I was eating pastries, but like, I dreamt that I was still on the sugar
03:59challenge so I couldn't actually eat them.
04:02Okay, so I'm at the store and I'm pretty sure I can eat this.
04:08And if I can't, then I'll just give it away.
04:11But I'm also hungry for breakfast, so I'm gonna get fruit and those are mangoes and I can't
04:18have them, so this is torture.
04:23It is day 5, day 4, oh god, I can't count.
04:31I want, I want a, I want a stroopwafel, I want a caramel stroopwafel.
04:36It's been 7 days, my skin's not getting any better.
04:42Okay, Kara just said that my skin is supposed to get worse, not better.
04:47Kara.
04:48No, worse than better.
04:49Okay guys, this is the first day of shopping on this challenge.
04:54So I'm gonna turn this around.
04:55What's that say?
04:56Brown rice noodles.
04:57Oh great, it's brown rice.
04:58I can have it.
04:59Except, when I look at the back, can you guys see that second ingredient there?
05:03Probably not.
05:04It's mirror flipped.
05:05Well, first ingredient is brown rice, second ingredient is white rice.
05:09So these brown rice noodles have white rice in them.
05:13For some reason, my guess is just to infuriate me.
05:18I just got back from the best Indian restaurant in Houston and when they asked for my order,
05:35I said, no, I don't want any naan.
05:38And I made a total fool of myself by asking if they serve brown rice instead of white, which
05:43of course they didn't.
05:44So I had to say, no, I don't want any rice with my curry.
05:48And then I proceeded to try and eat curry without rice.
05:53And it was the worst thing I've ever done.
05:57And I got so angry.
05:59I want a drink, but this is what I've got.
06:03So I've got de Sirono, which I know in all good conscience I cannot have on this challenge.
06:09I'm going to try and see what this free thing, it's called 20 grand, this free thing of vodka
06:16and rosé is like.
06:18Who am I to presume that centuries of Indian tradition got it wrong by serving white rice
06:27and naan with their curry, no thanks, no rice for meat, no.
06:32You know what I did?
06:33I ate rice.
06:34One of the many reasons why I have given up on the sugar challenge is because I order
06:39meals from Blue Apron and they also send nutritional facts.
06:45So as you can see here, there's only 13 grams of sugar in here.
06:49However, with the no sugar challenge, I can't have sugars at all.
06:52So this wouldn't have worked and I'm hungry and I paid good money for this, so.
06:58It's day 11 and what I've learned is if you have any friends left at this point, what you
07:03have to do, if you want to see them ever, is eat a pre-meal before you go to a restaurant.
07:11And then you won't be as angry when you sit there and watch them eat.
07:15You can see my fine lines here, usually you can see them from here.
07:19I think my skin might be clearing up a bit, actually.
07:23These are leftovers.
07:25Delicious pizza slices.
07:28And I'm gonna eat the crust because that's the best part.
07:32It's day 12 and I'm cooking a casserole.
07:35The casserole's gonna be delicious and it's exactly what I would be cooking even if I weren't
07:40on the challenge, but the fact that I have to be cooking it means that I hate cooking it
07:44and I resent it.
07:45I'm at the movie theater and let's go see Proud Mary, support my auntie Taraji P.
07:52I'm so super morally opposed to paying for water, but I think that's the only thing here
07:58that I can have on this challenge.
07:59I got an apple, you know, and I still haven't drank a soda, which is great, and I'm really
08:07proud of that.
08:08And I actually feel less jittery and anxious.
08:12I don't really think about the soda or anything.
08:14It's day 13, snacking on nuts.
08:19I mean, it's fine.
08:20I survived, but I'm just ready for this to be over.
08:23Somebody brought in, look at this you guys, free homemade gorditas.
08:28I probably can't have them because of the amount of sugars that are just in the spices
08:34and because I'm Texan I don't actually know what a good gordita actually is.
08:40I don't get to find out what it actually is today either.
08:44The Naturally Curly No Sugar Challenge is over!
08:49I made it through the wilderness.
08:52You know I made it through.
08:56And I am hungry.
08:58We all made it.
08:59We're alive.
09:00We didn't all make it, but we made it and we're here.
09:05You mad?
09:06I got through the sugar challenge.
09:10Really what had happened was I watched everybody else be angry for two weeks, okay?
09:16Complaining about, I'm hungry, I can't have no sugar.
09:20I knew that the hardest part of this challenge for me was going to be meal planning and making
09:23sure that I had everything ready to go every day.
09:27I can't do that.
09:28So there were a lot of times where I was just like, well, I guess I'm having unflavored
09:32yogurt for dinner.
09:33I'm grown, okay?
09:34And if I want to have sugar, I will put it in my coffee.
09:38I will put it in my tea.
09:40I will exfoliate with it.
09:43What I learned is you can't plan what you're going to eat when you get hungry.
09:50You have to shop and cook and figure all of that out way before you even get the inkling
09:59that you're hungry.
10:00I made it a full 13 days without touching this bright.
10:03This wouldn't have been nearly as bad for me as it was if I had just planned a little
10:09bit better.
10:10I have discovered a lot of foods that I might not have otherwise.
10:14Kefir, for instance, the cultured whole milk, they make an unflavored version and that stuff,
10:20okay?
10:21That stuff is good.
10:23There was a day where I felt drunk.
10:27It was like I shouldn't have been driving to work.
10:31I mean, I went to the bakery.
10:33I got macaroons.
10:34I got milk cakes.
10:36And I just wanted to say on camera and publicly that I am insensitive.
10:43This is the weirdest thing.
10:45My sweat smells different.
10:47Like, I've had...
10:48I can't calculate the body chemistry changes because I hate getting my blood drawn and
10:53my lab burned down.
10:57But...
10:57There's a lot of things burned down around you.
11:00This was a hard challenge!
11:01Ever since last night, all of my meals have been sugar-based.
11:07Pizza, cookies, fruitcake, chocolate, for breakfast.
11:11I think that this challenge is actually going to backfire and that now I'm going to eat way
11:18more sugar than I ever ate before.
11:20I can sit here and joke and all that kind of stuff about my own personal take on this,
11:25but for real, like, it's serious.
11:26If you do want to take ownership of your health and you started here with Naturally Curly,
11:32I say kudos to you, good on you, and keep it up.
11:36This challenge really put a lot of things into perspective for me, especially reading ingredients,
11:39so I want to know, how did you guys do?
11:42Did you take our challenge?
11:43Have you ever taken any sort of no-X-ingredient-here challenge before?
11:47And if so, how did it go?
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11:53We make these smooth, but do have a thing.
11:55So, here we go, that's it.
11:57Bye.
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