Year of No Added Sugar - Day 1

Happy vernal equinox, Happy First Day of Spring (northern hemisphere), Happy first day of the Astrological Year!
Seems like a perfect day to start a year of no-added-sugar!
Unfortunately this isn't my first try. But, that hasn't caused me to give up yet! I'm hoping that writing this blog will help me persevere for a year.
So, what does "no added sugar" mean to me?
For me, it's going to mean that fruit, in its whole fruit form is okay, but fruit juice is not.
It means choosing foods with no added: sugar, agave, honey, fruit juice; and, no artificial sweeteners either. No added dextrose and definitely no fructose.
But, while I do tend to be a purist at heart, I have allowed myself a couple/few exceptions as follows:
1) My favorite calming magnesium supplement tea: Natural Calm by Natural Vitality. It does have stevia in it and raspberry flavor.
I wanted to try and avoid stevia as well but food limitations become a little daunting when it comes to natural supplements.
2) My second exception, which also has stevia, is the raw vegan protein powder that I use by Sunwarrior.
So... today... I'm starting off at about 180 lbs on a 5 foot 3.75" frame, which puts me in the category of obese with a BMI of 31. I need to get down to 170 just to get back to the category of overweight.
I'm currently wearing around a size 16 or XL.
It's really difficult to attribute these categories and sizes to myself because I've generally been at a healthy weight most of my life to date; but, it's even more difficult to make a change without acceptance and a desire to change.
After a weekend of sugary delights, today, first day of "no-added-sugar" year, and a Monday:
Breakfast consisted of 1 cup rice and ~1.5 cups of peas flavored with Himalayan salt and pepper.
Lunch ended up being one wild rice cake with ~3-4 TBS almond butter.
Dinner included full bag of Whole Foods Organic Haricot Verts (which are super yummy thin green beans) and 1 cup rice flavored with himalayan salt and pepper.
Throughout the day I used 4 bags of black tea and two bags of peppermint tea to make a total of about 60-80 ounces of tea. No sweetener in the tea so I find the peppermint helps lighten the taste of the black tea. When my energy comes back up, I hope to be able to reduce the dependence on caffeine.
Finished off the day with natural calm tea, the anti-stress drink, which is needed on the first day of no added sugar!
Total caloric intake for the day, amounted to only about 1200-1300 calories, which is pretty low. Not feeling hungry, which is probably because I ate so much over the weekend in anticipation of this no-added-sugar year challenge. I'm sure I'll be more hungry tomorrow!
No headaches today, which is surprising since every first day of no-added-sugar attempts to date (about 4 or 5 in past 3 months) has included a headache... I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings!