Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of March 7, 2011
Victory! (Cropped from an
image taken by Jason Kaplan)
This week’s challenge is posting a day late because I was away at graduation! Yes!
At dinner, after the ceremony, I was tempted to celebrate by eating sweets. Luckily the desserts did not look appetizing. Had there been a rich chocolate layer cake or a fluffy chocolate mousse, I might have caved. Instead they had some kind of cream filled flaky stuff. Not my thing.
Which leads me to this week’s sugar challenge….
Every time you’re tempted to eat something sweet, do something different. Do something else. Change your behavior pattern. Make something different. If watching TV makes you want to eat junk food, go for a walk instead. If working on something at the computer makes you want to have sugar, replace the sugar with something else.
You’ll be amazed at how much more interesting and alive life can be if you just switch up your routine even the slightest bit.
Comments · Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of March 7, 2011
Congratulations on doing something as important as graduating while not being sweet. Seeing that helps my anxiety about the ocean ahead that is the “future”. I’ve only been unsweet for a week and am aiming for 10 months and then having sugar from my birthday to Christmas which is three days. I was thinking about all the little and big events that will come about during that time and wondering what experiencing them while not being sweet will be like. I got your ebook yesterday, and it is really helping; this blog is helping so much. Thank you
DavidVanadia
Mar 09, 2011
Thank you Audra! I like to think of all those sugar-avoiding events as fun and interesting social experiments. Keep in touch.
Judith B.
Mar 11, 2011
Congratulations on your graduation and for resisting the celebratory sweets. I know what you mean about caving if the sweet is a favorite one.
I had a small victory yesterday when I wanted to celebrate a positive event-I bought some flowers and a Larabar instead.
Jen C
Mar 12, 2011
Congrats on graduation! What did you to celebrate instead of eat cake? How do you change your celebrations with family and friends to include non-sweet stuff? I am excited about your weekly sugar challenges. I will do something different this week. I always told myself I would do squats when I wanted something sweet, but it looks weird when I do that at work. So….
DavidVanadia
Mar 17, 2011
Thank you Judith and Jen! I celebrated with dinner and some unsweetened carob covered almonds. For celebrations with family and friends I just don’t have sweets myself but they often do. Jen, squats at work would certainly get people interested in what you’re up to!
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