almost sugar-free!

hello friends.
this is an encouraging blog post. so put your encouraging hat on.

this summer i am going home to live with my parents, and it is one of my main goals and missions to help my mom stop smoking. She has asked me to hold her accountable, and I graciously accepted. I've been doing a ton of research on this and trying to figure out the best way I can help her, I decided that on April 24th that one of the best ways to do this would be by giving something up that I really like too. What would that be? Well SUGAR of course!

So here were my guidelines:

Objective: Give up processed sugar as much as I could (candy/sweets/cookies/etc.)
Goal: Only eat sweets 2 times in two weeks.
Known Hardest Obstacle: All the sweets at our house and the Leadership desserts
Known Easiest part: taking it out of my coffee/oatmeal

Unknown discovery: Remove sugar from a.m. meals and you will be less likely to eat it throughout the day, people are offended when you turn down their food, I eat sugar a lot and this was good for me to analyze.

Anyways, this blog is a cry for help for the next couple of days until Saturday. I didn't have dessert from leadership or WYLDlife, I've munched from the puppy chow on the table Saturday night, and nothing today.

I've realized the addictive behavior sugar can play and hope that it provides a little bit of vulnerability in my heart towards my mom and her addiction. I am excited to continue with this experiment, but know that I can't wait for a graduation treat :] oh and know that i don't do substitute sugar either (except for diet soda), that is a chemical disaster just waiting to give you cancer!

much love.