Sugar Free- Day One:

Not sure if any one will be reading this. Or if any one who does even knows me. So I guess, a short bio is in order:

First, I am a female.
I am currently 25 years old.
Give me candy and I am your new best friend.
Make me a cake and we are going steady.
Bring me a brownie and we will probably get married.
I have a short attention span.
I hardly ever stick to anything I plan.
That wasn't supposed to rhyme.
Oh well.


Long story short:
Last weekend, after going to my boyfriend's father's birthday celebration, I found myself with a severe stomach ache and a pounding headache. Why? Probably because when faced with birthday cake and ice cream, it is somewhat like Superman and kryptonite; except in this case, Superman wants to eat all the kryptonite until he explodes.

I knew something had to change, not only because I wanted to barf, but because I couldn't stand to see the half sympathetic/ half "I told you so" looks coming from the loving gaze of my incredibly supportive boyfriend.

Today was the first day of being serious about cutting sugar out of my diet.

It started with washing dishes as most days normally do. Although, as I was putting the silverware into the sink, I noticed a knife with delicious pumpkin pie guts still mushy and clinging to the outside- begging me to lick it off- mind you, I don't know who cut the pumpkin pie, or even when it was left out, so let us realize together the extent of sickness it is that I wanted to, with all my being, lick that knife so clean I could have seen my smiling reflection in it.

But, I didn't.

Instead I exercised my first bit of will power and rubbed off the sugary goods on the inside of the trash can- cringing the whole time- trying to convince myself that throwing the crusty morsels away was a huge waste and that I am a terrible wasteful person. It's the weirdest thing, not even a few hours into my day, and my brain was already trying to get a sugar fix no matter what it had to say to me.

The rest of the day went pretty well. Not too irritable, but I also haven't seen many people and spent most of the day relaxing in between doing household chores.

I did watch a documentary today called "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead."I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in a more healthy lifestyle. It starts off slow, but picks up speed about a third of the way in. Towards the end it had me practically in tears. It follows two guys who start juicing and their journey to good health. Also, it is on netflix- easy enough.

Here's a link to the main page incase you are interested.
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/

You can watch the trailer if you are bored. Chances are if you made it to the end of this long-winded post, you probably are. Thanks, by the way. Your support is more valuable to me than you will ever know.

Until tomorrow,

-k