How Do You Eat Sugar One Day and Not the Next?

Question

How do you have sugar one day (on one of your four days a year, for example) and not have it turn into two days, and then three, and so on. How do you have it.. then not have it? I went with out sugar one time for about a year and a half, then at a surprise birthday party for me I succumbed to peer pressure and had a piece of birthday cake (“ONE PIECE WON’T HURT YOU!”) and that was the beginning of the end.

Thanks,
Jill

Answer

I choose to do it. Halloween and my birthday are days where I want to eat sweets. Doing so makes it easier for me to participate with the activities of those days. I failed 1,000 times before getting to the point where I could make it a year without sugar. Having the 4-day window where I choose to eat whatever I want came as a result of much experimentation. I had gone weeks, months, and finally a year before settling in on those 4 days.

Once you’ve been off sugar long enough and then go back, you notice that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Knowing that helps to make eating sweets less attractive. After a year and a half sugar-free, you’re well aware of that.

In the end it’s really a matter of choice. Social pressures are a huge factor but people rarely hold us down and push cake into our mouths. That said, there is no doubt that someone would have been very hurt had you not eaten the sweets they made for your surprise birthday party. They’d have gotten over it though.

When you stop being sweet you get to know your boundaries. The only way that happens is to have them crossed and then feel upset about it afterwards. Then you think, “I’m not letting that happen again.”

What’s most frustrating about your story is that, had you not cracked under the pressure and given in, you would have flipped the script. Everyone would have been forced to give up the old, sweet you and accept the new, unsweet you. At your next birthday they’d know you mean business and people would be in awe of your ability to resist sugar. But you caved. And that’s perfectly okay. It was your choice. It has been your choice all along.

You chose to eat healthily for a year and a half and you chose to eat something sweet on your birthday. You’ve been in control all along and you still are, right now. Choose wisely!

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