Just One Banana

Is it too much to ask that when I sit down to eat my one sugar laden treat of the week that there be one banana in the house left for me. Really, I just bought bananas yesterday -- yesterday. I am a little upset that I did not get to sit and stuff myself with bananas and nutella tonight. But I made do with some nutella cookie sandwiches.

I have decided to go back off refined sugar-- at least during the week. I went off sugar and white flour for 10 years for health reasons but then the past couple years I have started to basically eat sugar (well okay especially chocolate -- lots and lots of chocolate) all the time again. I may not be having the same reactions to sugar and simple carbs that I did 10 years ago - but my weight and my blood pressure have sky rocketed. So I am gaining control of my life. And you know what? It feels good to be in control again. I have decided that I will steer clear of food hopped up on sugar during the week. I am allowing myself a treat or two on the weekend so I don't go on some kind of sugar binge. I have also started eating more fruits and veggies everyday. I love veggies. I really do and so it is actually enjoyable for me to sit down and eat a half of a spaghetti squash for lunch.

The crazy part is that I thought the sugar thing would be really hard for me. But after I got through the first three days (which were actually really hard) I stopped craving sugar all the time. I can actually look at a treat and feel no desire to eat it. I don't go searching the house for chocolate or candy all the time because I know that it is better to eat healthy. However no matter how much better I am doing, occasionally the Nutella still calls to me. And that cheesecake I shared with my husband last Saturday at Orchids restaurant was divine. But now a little sugar satisfies me quickly and I can make it through another week. Although it would have been nice if someone had saved me just one banana so I could eat one of my favorite treats while getting in one of my servings of fruit and veggies. :)