Day 91

No sugar added. Wow that's over three months..nice.

Day 90

No sugar added today. Lacey was super sweet to make me a cheese and fruit plate for dessert at Maddi's baptism luncheoun..that was a big help! I've noticed that kids really dig fruit as well :-)

Day 89

No sugar added today..did introduce Colton to baklava and that made me happy. I was trying to explain it to John this morning, the reason I can cut coconut cream pie for him or buy baklava for Colton...I'm trying not to do this no sugar thing in a begrudging manner. I don't want to be sitting in a corner coveting the sugar...and serving others makes me feel less begrudging.

Day 88

Ta da, no sugar added on Thanksgiving. No pie, no tart, no dump cake....I won't say that it was easy, but I will say that it was easier than I thought it was going to be. I tried to focus on playing with the kids and talking with my family instead of longing for pie. When it got to the point that I was tierd and having a hard time not attacking the pecan tart, we went home.

Day 87

No sugar added...still not feeling great with a stupid chest cold, but I have determined that nothing will stand in the way of me having fun this weekend...nothing.

Day 86

No sugar added, happily, nothing even sounds good sugar wise..I hope that lasts feeling stays with me through Thanksgiving. :-)

Day 85

No sugar added today.

Day 84

Finished up our second forty days worth of goals today. That means I have we're creating our new goals for the next forty days. I think mine is going to have to do with strength training and portion control.

Day 83

No sugar added during another weekend of homework.

Day 82

Didn't touch the copious amounts of chocolate that Paul keeps in his library in Cheyenne, just ate my cheese and crackers. He kept trying to push it on me, but I just said no thanks. Yeah.

Day 81

So today may have been the ultimate challenge, four pastry trays full of chocolate mousse cups, eclairs, chocolate covered strawberries, macaroons...they looked delicious..not only did I serve them to other people, I cut pieces of cake, and got frosting on my fingers and did not lick them...I just wiped my hand on a napkin and got on with life. I really didn't know if I would make it through today, but I did..and I'm grateful...sea kayak still mine.

Day 80

Oh and what a day it has been. Poor Johnny has been sitting in the house with bottles of ginger for tomorrow's party and I've been surrounded by scrumptious cake. By we were both strong!

Day 79

No sugar added. The next two weeks will be tough. Tomorrow, employee appreciation/retirement cake, Thurs - retirement party, Friday -Cheyenn library full of candy...and Thanksgiving with tons of desserets all around...nice.

Day 78

Ok, so along with sugar, I'm giving up rich foods...my poor stomache just can't handle them at all. So the next forty days will be all about simple, healthy foods, keeping up with the ellipticalling and of course not eating sugar :-) John had a dream last night that he accidentally bought a coke and had to find someone to give it to..and then there was a coke can in the parking lost this morning...coincidence....or not???

Day 77

No sugar added today.

Day 76

No sugar today, just a lot of laughter and love. Saturday is my favorite day of the week.

Day 75

So I was talking to Kelly about Thanksgiving and missing pie this year and she said a very wise thing, "There will be pie again next year." Very true..so Cammie and I can chomp down on blackberries for dessert with abandon instead of pie :-)

Day 74

No birthday cake today, although I did cut a piece and give it to someone else who came in late while everyone else was eating the cake. Lots of cream cheese frosting, but I didn't touch it. So much easier than it was 74 days ago.

Day 73

I so wanted some sugar today..just stressed, but I ate an apple instead....I feel better for it, but I'm worried about birthday cake at work tomorrow.

Day 72

A day off to catch up on studies and laundry..no sugar added or in fact even thought about.

Day 71

I'm proud to report, that I sat next to unattended brownies last night and didn't even think about eating one...nice! Today is day 71 of no sugar..yeah!

Day 70

A busy, productive weekend sans sugar! Also making progress on other goals!

Day 69

A busy Saturday, school work, a few errands...and finally cleaning out my makeup drawer..that felt good...and all of it sugar free :-)

Day 68

No sugar added. It's been a long week and I'm thrashed, but I didn't use false energy to get me through. Yeah!

Day 67

No sugar added today and might I add..pms really, really sucks.

Day 66

What I really love about today is I don't feel like celebrating with food. I'm just enjoying the feeling

Day 65

Happy election day, sans sugar! Even though I voted early last week, I'm still anticipating tonight's results. Dealing with some stressful feelings the non-sugar way...it's getting easier..but part of me longs for the ease of dove chocolate.

Day 64

No sugar added. Ate oatmeal for lunch today..Maddi kept talking about oatmeal on Saturday and it made me think, Hmmm oatmeal. And I have to say with almonds and fresh blackberries, it was very tasty and cozy.

Day 63

No sugar added on Sunday, not even Sunday night pineapple cause we didn't make it to the store. On a related note, I tried a new recipe for Italian Vegetable bake...it was horrendous. It looked and smelled ghastly. I tried a bit and it was in fact ghastly. Before, I would have forced myself to eat it so that I didn't waste food, as it was, we dialed Papa Johns and had pizza...threw the vegetable ickiness in the garbage where it belonged.

Day 62

Doughnuts, Doughnuts every where. We took Mimi out for her birthday outing. She didn't like the lunch we bought (although she was very polite about it) There was a doughnut shop across from where we were. We told her to pick a doughnut and the man said, "She is going to grow up to be very beautiful, we said thanks, and he threw two extra doughnuts into the bag. So she offered me one and I said no thanks. A couple of time actually...but I didn't have even a bite.

Day 61

Least anyone fear that Halloween was the undoing of my sugar free challenge...you would be wrong! Trick or treating..no problem. Enjoyed the holiday without any candy. Nice!