Well, we've finally come to the end. Only a few hours left. Its been difficult for me, but not impossible.
The hardest parts are the unexpected offerings. When Eric is offered those cookies at work, he eats them. When Thomas sees that bubble gum in my purse, he really wants a piece. The mom who carpools Thomas offered him trip to the ice cream store. He declined and told her and his friend about his sugar de-tox.
So my downfalls were eating some pumpkin pie and I had a little bit of honey in my tea last night. I really wanted it.
I had a '5 grams of sugar' Kind bar before working out this week. It was heavenly. And that's what I'm hoping I take away from this: I will be satisfied with less sugar as being sweet treat. That my sweet tooth has diminished slightly. I have visions of going to my favorite french bakery tomorrow and getting my favorite overpriced chocolate eclair. But I think I'm going to hold off. I'm going to try to stick with it and eat less sweet.
Thomas has done super well. He hasn't seemed to miss his sugar as much as I have. Its like he really wants the sugar when he sees it, but otherwise, he's fine. Tonight we're going to a restaurant and not getting a soda. That's hard for Thomas. But he doesn't long for sugar during the day like I do.
In the end, I'm glad I did my sugar de-tox. I certainly don't miss my "sugar crashes" which I can really feel at times. I don't have that up and down feeling when I don't eat sugar.
What about you?
Congratulations, Goodell clan. I'm particularly impressed with Thomas turning down ice cream. Wow. Lucy was also able to turn down some offerings, but I think she would have caved at that. We celebrated the end of our near perfect sugarless week over a wedge of Grand Central coffee cake and cup of cocoa (we shared both). We had some nice reflection about what the experience was like and what we could take away from it. I think it was easier for Lucy than for me, too. The afternoon is hard for us both, but before bed the worst for me (and when I broke down and ate a piece of Halloween candy one night). We agreed that I should stop putting treats in Lucy's lunch - she can get one for herself when she gets home, if she really wants it. The little bit of Halloween candy she kept will stay in the basement, where she can retrieve it as needed. And we'll just bring fewer sweets into the house and try to be mindful of our treat consumption, instead of habitual about it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for inviting us into the challenge! It was good for us to do, especially launching into the season of sweets. Perhaps this will become an annual purge???