{ah, sugar, sugar}

The next few weeks are going to be extremely hard but I am looking forward to the outcome. I have decided to quit eating sugar. This won't be easy because I am seriously addicted to it  -as in -can't seem to resist it. But, I have been working myself up to this so it should be easier than if I'd tried a few months ago -it is time to just do it!

I was always an active person and for the most part could eat anything I wanted and never worry about it but all that has changed. I'm less active than I should be (working on that too) and I def can't eat anything I want now without it affecting my weight. I am not going to give my actual weight in number form but I will say that I currently weigh about 30 more pounds than I did when I got married 5 years ago. It has been a slow addition every year having to buy pants a size bigger but I just can't fathom the idea of staying this weight or continuing this trend. I must make a change. I have known this for awhile, if I was honest at least the past two years I have been extremely unhappy with my weight but I have yet to make a change. That change starts today! I know my biggest problem is sugar! Again, I'm addicted -there is no other word to describe it's affect on me. I crave it, I feel like I need it -it's ridiculous!

I am an emotional eater and it doesn't make things better when I'm feeling down about my weight to go buy a waffle cone ice cream with sprinkles, but this is seriously what I find myself doing! Why? Because I'm addicted. I have often asked myself why drug addicts do what they do, why they can't stop and I don't know why I ask because if I was honest with myself I know what addiction feels like. The sad part is sugar is just as bad as a drug, I judge others but I am an addict myself. It may sound ridiculous to compare sugar addiction with drug addiction but why? It's addiction. I don't want to be an addict anymore!

Now, to get down to the details. I am quitting sugar that I have control over, for example: that ice cream cone I mentioned earlier, candy, soda, cakes, cookies, processed treats, etc. -basically the things I know I shouldn't eat but do anyways. I will try to buy products that are lower in sugar but I will still eat things like spaghetti sauce and bread, milk and well pretty much everything else that has some amount of sugar in it but is not really a "sweet treat" type of sugar. I know I may slip but I am giving this my all... I will try to blog once a week about this topic to keep myself in check. My goal is to break my addiction, to be healthier, and yes -to lose weight. I will post the affects and any weight change I may have. We are going on a short vacay in a couple months and I would love to have a double digit weight loss by then to celebrate -and by celebrate I mean purchase some smaller size dresses and jeans!

Have any of you given up sugar? Do you have any advice?