Sugar-free day

Sugar is invisible until you take it out. One day and you can see where it was reaching you from.

The evening before, walk through the kitchen and set aside everything with sugar in the first three ingredients — it takes ten minutes and is already surprising. Buy the day's food ahead: eggs, nuts, plain quark, vegetables, meat, sugar-free bread if you can find it. During the day read labels on everything, including sauces, yoghurt, bread and 'fitness' bars; syrup, dextrose, fructose and juice concentrate are the same sugar. Fruit is fine, sweeteners are not, or the day loses its point. Around midday the pull usually comes — don't tough it out, eat a handful of nuts and drink water. In the evening write down how many times sugar turned up where you didn't expect it.

When you wanted something sweet today — were you hungry, or was it something else?