Sweets Free

As a leader in Young Women's I felt it was only fair that I worked on personal progress along with the young women, so the past two weeks I have been working on the word of wisdom focusing mainly on my sweet intake. As many of you know, I LOVE sweets. So, it is a major sacrifice to cut desserts and candy from my diet for a day, let a lone a couple of weeks.

Let me give you a breakdown of a normal day in the life of Gina:

Eat a meal

Crave sweets

Eat Sweets

Decide I need an extra helping of sweets.

Eat the extra helping.

Eat a meal

Crave sweets

Eat Sweets...

You get the point.

I have officially gone almost two whole weeks without any sweets (as long as you don't count the first couple of days when I was finishing off my Fiber One bars with chocolate :) ). I am debating on extending this journey for a whole month, but I'm not quite sure if my body can take it. I think it has gone into shock. I might actually have gained weight during this experiment. Is that possible? David said my body thinks I am starving, since I do not ever skip sweets, so it is starting to hoard whatever I take in.

Surprisingly I am doing much better than expected. I have been been at several activities/parties where others have been devouring desserts and have not felt even so much as an urge. I guess miracles do happen!

But let's be honest, I am not giving up sweets for ever.

Yummy Goodness

For any of you that know me even somewhat well know that I have a ginormous sweet tooth. Throughout my life I have generally stuck to the the likes of skittles, starbursts, ice cream and really any fruity candy that is chewy and delicious. Since I have been married, David has opened my eyes to a new sweet. The ever scrumptious vanilla frosting and graham crackers. Many trips to the grocery store I will pick up this snack as a treat for David telling myself during the shopping trip that I can restrain myself this week and save the goods for David. And then without fail, my will gives way to the temptation of this combo in my cupboard. And once again, this week I have fallen. Good thing tomorrow is a new day and the frosting is almost gone!