Sugar and Carbs

Staying away from sugar and carbs is so hard.  Everything is sugar and carbs.

One the first day of my diet I was already having cravings.  I wanted to go to a favorite dine-in theatre just to have an excuse to order one of their pizzas.  Not that they have great pizzas just that I wanted that chewy doughy pizza.

Yesterday, I stopped by my mom’s house.  She made a cheese dip which is not against my diet but the chips accompanying the dip are.  I allowed myself to have two chips with the dip.  Didn’t think about it until just now but I should have asked my mom if she had celery sticks as alternative to the chips.  On the way home from her house, I wanted to stop at a coffee shop for a mocha latte or any type of coffee that included sugary additions.

Today, I dropped off my son at the mall to hang out with a friend of his.  I wanted to stop by at Starbucks to get a sugary coffee drink.  I loitered inside the Barnes and Noble letting myself dwell on the temptation.  I ultimately resisted.  It helped that I am a bit cash poor and didn’t feel like spending $5 or so on one cup of coffee.  After walking out of the bookstore, I found myself walking towards the Queen Anne’s.  I had a cinnamon sugar pretzel on the brain.  I knew it would be harder to avoid that treat so I turned around and headed to my car.  I went home and had myself a nice low-carb lunch of fish and a side salad.

So here I set on day three wanting sugar and carbs.  “Hold on,” I tell myself, “You can last to the end of this short month.”  It would help to be able to see progress but the battery in my scale is dead.