Tempted to Eat Sugar Monthly

Every first Thursday of the month Portland’s Pearl District plays host to art gallery openings and an art walk. I very much enjoy hitting the streets with Gwenn to check out what’s happening in the local art scene. What I also enjoy—sometimes more than the art—are the variety of foods that people put out to accompany the new collections. Some places put out a bowl of pretzels, others assemble very lavish spreads.

This photo was taken at the grand opening of a local business. Not every gallery or business puts out so much food but there’s often plenty of sweet temptation. Luckily for me, there’s also plenty of veggies and unsweetened treats.

While walking around this past First Thursday, I got to thinking about my favorite bakery back in NJ and how I no longer have a caveat in my sustainable sugar abstinence program. Suddenly I got a great idea. I’ll allow myself to eat sweets every First Thursday and only when I’m on the art walk, and only when the sweets are put out for the public to eat. Genius! I told Gwenn.

“Somehow I think that First Thursday would take on a whole new meaning for you if you did that,” was all she replied.

Gwenn was absolutely correct. I had already mapped out and mentally marked all of the places that usually put out cookies. Some locations regularly feature a variety of sweets and I was imagining taking two handfuls and stuffing my pockets. If I allowed myself to eat sweets once-a-month during the art walk it would no longer be about the art.

It’s pretty amazing. I’ll be unsweet for five years this year, only eating whatever I want during my “annual sugar binge”, and still I’m trying to figure out a way to allow myself to go back to sweets. It’s possible and probable that the desire will never go away.

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