SUGAR FREE and not loving it...

If you happened to glance at my last post you may be able to figure out why I decided to do this...maybe not. One of many things I spoke to/bargained with the Lord about while I was yacking up a week's worth of my insides (see previous post) was getting my diet cleaned up...get a little less processed and more natural & whole. So I promptly 'reevaluated' some personal eating habits and realized that I have a stellar sugar addiction. Like...CA-RAZY big and all-encompassing.
There is sugar in EVERYTHING!!! Yikes. What I really want to do is go completely PALEO for 30 days and then see where I land. Well, I know myself WAY BETTER than that, so I decided for a slightly different goal for my FIRST 30 days. Not much easier, mind you...simply different. Once I get the sugar gone then I can tackle the next HUGE thing...grains and Diet soda.
Enter the SUGAR FREE zone...
OK, so I am almost one day in the bag and I feel pretty darn good. I did have the Chobani yogurt with fruit, but that was all I had time to eat for breakfast. (But I ate breakfast at breakfast time and it didn't come frosted and in a Dunkin Donuts bag so points for both) The pineapples are 2 for $4 at Publix and they are AMAZING, as well as the strawberries. I have watermelon for dessert after dinner. These are both very good things. I had some Coffeemate with my coffee this morning, but a sugar fetish is not built on 2 daily tablespoons of fake milk. It's all the other crap I love to eat that doesn't love my midsection and/or hips and thighs. How do I love thee...? Let me count the ways...Ice cream, anything that has been made with sugar and then baked, anything that has the word Oreo in it's desciption, Slurpee's, kettle corn, candy, several different kinds of mixed drinks, the dessert menu from any restaurant, Coffeemate, and that's just off the top of my head...
So as addicts do, I am going to take this SUGAR detox ONE DAY AT A TIME! Once I finish with 30 days (if and when I finish all 30 days) then I tackle the next big thing...Diet soda and grains. This may take some time...because it's one thing to say I can't eat dessert, but no chips for my salsa either?! That will definitely take a little more time...
So here's hoping that the 30th day is as awesome as the first and that I actually do it...for ALL 30 days!
You know what they say...in order to get something you've never had you have to do something you've never done.

Doing something new,
Lauren