One Week Plus One Day...

I'm super proud of myself for having made it through 7 whole days without any Diet Coke.  I know this seems like a minor task, but it's pretty major for me!  I have taken my fair share of Excedrin, and I'm even currently thinking that if I had just one Diet Coke I might actually be able to get this pounding in my head to stop, but I won't.  I know it's probably just that I'm tired or need to drink more water, so I'll be doing both shortly!

It took me some time this week to decide what my next move should be, and since I started off with removing an empty "food" from my diet I think I'm going to continue along that path.  I have a horrible sweet tooth.  I crave a sweet after pretty much any and every meal.  I don't know what it is, but it's been there as long as I can remember and it's only getting worse as I get older!  my prime sweets time is between 3pm and 6pm because it's just me and Lucas in the house and I know he's not going to judge me fore eating peanut M&M's or Publix Oatmeal cookies, so it's almost as if it's not happening, though clearly, my waistline disagrees.  

I was talking to my sister about removing ALL sweets from my daily life, but I know that will only make me focus that much harder on it and will just set me up for failure.  SO, instead I'm going to replace the sweets I eat with healthy alternatives like fruits.  I took a taste of a plum our kids had for snack at school last week and it dawned on me, "Why don't I eat this?"  It was tart and juicy.  It was sweet and best of all it was healthy.  If I ate two on a "bad" day that's not really bad.  sure it's got some sugar in it, but that is at least all natural sugar and it's fruit not chocolate covered nuts or cookies that I trick myself into thinking they are healthy because they contain oatmeal!  

Today on our car ride home, all 8 hours of it, I was pretty tempted by the snacks I had in my bag, but I abstained   Tomorrow in order to not fall back into my bad habits I'll be hitting up the grocery store once school is over!  I really do think this small change will make a huge difference.  

My heart.  My love.  My motivation!

I know it's just day one of this week, but if you have any ideas on what change I should make next week, let me know!  I'm thinking about looking at each of my 3 meals over the next 3 weeks.  Good idea?  Bad idea?

Well this girl is pretty tired from visiting my sister and her sweet new family, so I hope you have a GREAT night!

Losing it,

Lisa