I have often thought about ditching the sweet stuff. My all or nothing personality has held me back. I could not rationalize passing up cookies while still eating bag's of chips. I realized that I can have an ascension diet, where I work on one step at a time. When I really think about it I have every thing to gain and nothing to lose by giving up sweets. While I may not be perfect, and am not ready to go whole hog and ditch snacks all together I can see an improvement in my life and health by making this cut. Let's say eating sweets represents 30% of my poor eating habits, imagine the calories, fat and sugar I can cut from my diet just by giving up sweets. Some people just cut sweet drinks and see a change in their health. I ditched sweet drinks long ago, and with taking this next step to cut sweets from my diet I feel that I will be giving myself the best gift possible. Down the road after this victory of breaking my sweet addiction I may yet have the power to rid myself of all unhealthy snacks. If nothing else I will have broken one more bad addiction and that is more than worth the effort. I am also going to start with the Big Bad Obvious Sweets (Cookies, Cake, Ice Cream and Pie) I am not going to stress over the sugar and Carb percentages of every item of food I take in, like eliminating bread, pasta and cereal. The Carbs I am cutting are specifically from the cookies, cakes and pie category I will follow the golden rule, "Only eat treats that God Created! Aka fruit!). I believe that by focusing one this one specific step I will have success, in the past when I tried to give up sweets I lumped it in with a larger goal to completely give up junk food or eliminate after dinner snacking, which made it harder to focus on giving up the sweets. I like having a narrow and specific goal to work on. I am looking forward to the sweeter side of life without the cakes and pies.
CLM
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