Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Sugarfast 2010

Usually I sugarfast through the holidays. Josh does it with me and sometimes my sister will join in and it's a beautiful thing. There are maybe 2 days from October - March that merit eating some kind of sweet treat but other than that I pass on all desserts, candies and sweets.

This year I started sugarfast without Josh. He doesn't have the "fast or binge" mindset so it isn't as big of a deal for him. It's harder when you're the only one sugarfasting.

But on Halloween-eve my extraordinarily generous nephew offered to share his hard earned candy with me. I had no problem until I saw the lemonhead.



Lemonheads taste like summers at the PG pool. The old one. With the good deep end and a high dive. I love the PG pool and I wanted a lemonhead. And if there's one thing I've learned on Nutrimirror it's that you can have 1 lemonhead and not gain 50 pounds.

So I ate a lemonhead.

And just like that Sugarfast 2010 is over.

After the lemonhead there was an exceptionally delicious pumpkin-pie-dessert at Mom-Reilley's, and of course she made sugar cookies. And it would have been rude not to partake.

Now I just have to decide if I want to have Sugarfast 2010: The Sequel or if I just want to keep my food logs green and let it be.

Moderation is much harder for me than fasting.

8 comments:

  1. I'm going to be the Devil's advocate and say don't do that fast. :)

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  2. Your describing me to a "T". Either i'm all out eating everything with sugar or i have to completely stay away! Staying is definitely easier.

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  3. I agree about the moderation thing. Losing weight would be a cinch if I could quit food altogether. It's the eating enough but not too much that kills me.

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  4. I also think moderation is much harder than abstaining. What I end up doing is letting myself have one day for sweets a week. It varies depending on what is going on that week, but the rest of the week I don't eat treats.

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  5. I keep thinking I will just stop buying treats and that will be good enough, but I struggle with even that! Wanna eat all the treats in my house so I can buy all the new ones I have been craving?

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  6. I gotta say I love memories of the PG pool but still lemon heads didn't even tempt me. Tootsie rolls, cookies, snickers etc etc. Maybe I oughta sugar fast with you again but then people felt obligated to provide healthy alternate treats...I probably won't decide until January. ;)

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  7. Speaking of lemonheads. I LOVE THEM. But more than just loving the regular hard lemonheads, have you tried the chewy lemonheads. Oh My Gosh! To die for. Especially the tropical version. I have only found those ones at the dollar store. TO DIE FOR. But if you get addicted it wasn't my fault.

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  8. I just decided today. It needs to be today. Sugarfast 2010 and I need some serious help. The rules are I can have b-day cake on Dec 15th but other than that, no candy. no dessert. What were some of those iffy exceptions that I need to specify?

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