Monday sans sugar

Day one is almost over and I have been strong. Oh, don't get me wrong: I've been a raging bitch pretty much all evening, but I haven't gorged myself! I ate oatmeal this morning with dried cranberries, vegetables with hummus and salsa for lunch, and black beans and brown rice for dinner. The rice and beans were pretty fancy though- I tossed in some roasted sweet potato cubes, some avocado chunks, salsa, cilantro, and just a smackeral of grated cheddar. Mmmm...so good! But no refined sweeteners today (except this morning- I downed a Diet Pepsi before I remembered no sweets. There I've confessed. Now let it go.)
The day has been pretty terrible even with my success. I've been irritable and distracted. I spent a good portion of the day trying to finish my reading for this evening's class; after about the fourth attempt I abandoned the effort. Instead I watched Twin Peaks on cbs.com.

Beginnings

I'm going to start a sugar detox tomorrow. Oh, wait, its already tomorrow. I'm going to start a sugar detox today. Me without sugar is like Churchill without booze. I know its kind of grandiose to compare myself with Churchill, but, c'mon, who's really going to read this? Anyway, I love sugar. I love to bake. I'm an amateur pastry chef really. Yesterday I made split level pudding cups with a chocolate ganache bottom and a cornstarch thickened vanilla top. Tomorrow I'm going to make brown rice. There is really no comparison. So we'll see how it goes. Maybe this blog will help.