Sugar Jitters

That feeling you have that you just need something sweet and carby, and you've emptied your house of the bad food (you thought) from the holidays, and yet you're just jonesing for a hit of something.... and then you feel relieved because you found enough white flour left over to bake up that pumpkin cinnamon coffee cake with enough powdered sugar and butter left to make a gooey sweet frosting for the finishing touch... well yeah... it's not the first time I've done this to myself.

This was me all last week, and it's been me many times in the past years as I come down off of the sugar and gluten overload that my brain seems especially addicted to. This was true again as usual, and I started doing something different to combat it this time. I actually had to force myself to eat or rather drink fruit. My friend loaned me his juicer and so I took a lemon, some clementines, and several apples into a meal once a day for the past 3 days, and surprisingly while I was grocery shopping yesterday I found myself not wanting any of the sugary things I'd been craving all last week, instead I was drawn to the produce section of the store and the thought hit me... my goal to lose 10 pounds a month, and at this time next year I could actually have released 120 pounds,  and for the first time that I can even remember I visualized what that would feel like in my mind, what that would feel like to live in that body instead of this heavier body, and I lit up and got very excited!!!

Now the planning of how to make that vision my reality begins!