Day 7 & 8

Day 7

Joel and I went shopping today, and I blame what happened on my shoes. I’m always on the lookout for comfortable, stylish black shoes that I can wear to work since I’m teaching for at least 6 hours a week. After walking around the mall, we went into a store looking for dress shoes for Joel. While waiting for him to try some on, I began scanning the ladies section for black shoes for me. In a moment of weakness, I began and trying on shoes regardless of how they looked, and I tried on a frumpy pair. Of course they turned out to be about the most comfortable pair I’ve ever worn in my life. I was then faced with a dilemma. So I dare cross over to the dark side and put comfort before fashion like so many aging women before me had done?

So I now have a new pair of shoes. Maybe it was that moment of weakness that led to my next moment of weakness. On the way to the car, we passed by the all-natural frozen yogurt store. And I suggested that we go in and see if they had anything sugar free. They had a few no sugar added and I checked that it was sweetened with fructose. And yes, I had some. Now though I feel a little like I cheated on my sugar free August experiment. I guess I shouldn’t really beat myself up. I only had a few bites, but I don’t really think it was worth it. The yogurt wasn’t that great. It was fun though to be out shopping with my husband and stop for a treat like we often do when we are out together.

Day 8

Today is the first day when I consciously thought, “I don’t want to do this anymore.” I suppose when I started this one of my main goals was to see if I would lose any weight. I weighed myself today, and I haven’t. I was a little disappointed, as if in the back of my mind I had secretly expected that the pounds would just fly off. Over the past week I’ve realized that even if I don’t lose any weight, I am glad I’m doing this because I think I will feel better if I limit my sugar consumption. I don’t think my lack of weight loss is what made me want to be done with all of this, though. Part of me is just tired of thinking about it and looking at sugar content in things. I think I just want to go back to my old ways because that was super easy and this is hard. But I’m pushing ahead and not giving up. I think this week, now that I’ve gotten rid of a lot of the sugar filled foods laying around the house, I’d like to focus on getting more healthy things to take it’s place. I’ve mentioned this before, but I think it’s time to do it.