or at least I should be. This whole no soda, limited sugar thing is great for the waist line. I have already dropped a pant size and everything that was too tight before seems to be just right again. I also have more energy when I eat a decent breakfast instead of the used to be frapp and danish. I will admit the first few weeks were insane! The headaches were irritating but manageable but the mood swings. Well, just be glad that you don’t live with me or have to answer my phone calls six or eight times a day while you are supposedly trying to do some work. Once I finally got over the headaches and mood swings, things were great for a while. I really didn’t have any cravings for mt. dew. Something that I wasn’t sure was ever possible. I have not totally given up sugar but where I was used to eating it at least two or three times a day, now it is more like a few times a week. Even this I don’t really miss. I am sure it would be much worse if I never allowed myself the occasional giffords toasted coconut, hot fudge, sundae or a warm brownie.
Things were great right up until this week. The week that the monstrous paper is due. The week that I knew would be hell if I didn’t get the paper finished before last week, but that knowledge didn’t keep me from putting the paper off until Monday of this week. I know Monday to Friday seems like a long time, but when you have perfectionist and control issues like I do and writing 10 drafts is the only way to get through this, it isn’t really enough time. So I am sure you can sense where this was going. In my quest to complete the paper, all things pale in comparison to its importance, especially the garnering of points for these stupid hockey tickets; of which is partly to blame for the lack of work on the paper in the previous three week. DAMN HUET!!! DAMN HIM!!! and whle we are at it , damn mikey and brooksie, and even the serge for not putting pen to paper weeks ago. Of course they didn’t force me to read the blogs and watch the tsn signing tracker endlessly, but it sure felt like some unseen force was making me do it. I certainly wouldn’t go that crazy all by myself. I like to think of those few weeks as my marlena-possession phase. She came around and so did I. But I digress, back to this week. I needed caffeine to get through the paper. Well, not really cause I wasn’t really all that tired, just not motivated. I know, I will reward myself early for working on the paper by buying starbucks or a mountain dew each day that I plan to work on it. The funny thing about this plan is that it didn’t really work. I was no more motivated after ingesting all the sugar than I was before. All it really did was make it more difficult to stay in my seat, which makes working on a paper even harder. Then the worst of it was the damn sugar headache. i don’t remember ever having a headache from too much sugar, but yep, that is certainly what it was. How do I know, because the only thing I ate all day was sugar and it wasn’t one of my normal stress headaches.
All of this to say, that as of tomorrow, I am again sugar free. And just to prove that I can jump right back on the horse, to the gym my friend, to the gym.
