In case you haven’t heard, I went a little crazy at the end of 2009. So crazy, that my New Years resolution was to give up sweets for 30 days, and then I vowed to only indulge once a week. I know what you are thinking, what in the world made me do this. Well, you can find out here.

So, I survived. As did my family. I won’t say it was easy, but in the end I’m glad that I did it. Here’s why.

1. My cravings did eventually stop. My physical cravings that is. My mental cravings, I don’t think those will ever stop. Sometimes, only chocolate can make a rough day better.
2. I feel better. I have more energy. I learned to eat more fruit in place of cookies, chocolate, brownies. mmmm, brownies.
3. I may have cheated-ish. Yes, I did sneak a few fruit snacks (only a few, I swear). And I’m not sure if this technically counts or not, but there was a granola bar or two that had a little bit of chocolate in them. But they were protein bars, so I think the protein outweighs the chocolate.
4. I proved to myself that I can do it.
5. On day 31, I completely indulged. Chocolate chip waffles for breakfast. Dark chocolate brownies with red-wine caramel sauce. And to my surprise on day 32 my will power remained and I didn’t even touch the brownies. Yay me!
6. I’m setting a better example for my son. No sweets for him should also mean no sweets for me. Not, no-sweets-for-me-while-he’s-looking.
7. I managed to avoid eating cake at my Godson’s baptism. Which actually wasn’t that difficult actually. Now, if it had been cream cheese frosting, I would have been all over it. Dad-oo on the other hand…
8. Dad-oo followed my example, and I think he stuck to it. Except of course…for a couple of large pieces of cake. I’m pretty sure that he ate one for me.
9. I could justify eating more at dinner. I needed to make up those extra dessert calories somewhere, right?
10. Best of all, I learned that I have self control. I don’t have to eat an entire chocolate bar. I can eat half of it. If I can go 30 entire days with nothing, surely eating only half will be a breeze. Right? RIGHT????

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