Sierra Sugar-free!

Sierra is now part of our sugar-free group and she has been doing great all week. Today she went to Activity Day's and I should have reminded her about sugar-free before she went but I forgot. She got in the car and then a minute later she said "Mom, I had a cookie! I forgot about sugar-free!" She was so concerned. I told her it's okay we all have days where we forget or we just eat the sugar because we can't stand it anymore. She then ate a cookie later that night at Grammy's too because she had already messed up. She did great again yesterday. She will tell me right when she get's home from school that she was sugar-free! This morning I made waffles and put syrup on her's and then she said "mom, can I eat this?" Yes, you can because it is Saturday!!! She's AWESOME!!!

Ashton Sugar-free?

Ashton tried to be sugar-free on Tuesday. He went to Grammy's house for a couple of hours to play with his cousins and when he got home I asked him, "Ashton, we're you sugar-free?" He looked concerned and said "mom, do sunchips have sugar? cucumbers and dressing? is a fruit roll (100% fruit strip) healthy?" So cute!!! He stayed sugar-free until after dinner when daddy asked him if he wanted to go with him to the grocery store to get some licorice. He looked at me, I told him it was his choice to be sugar-free, he needed to decide. Needless to say, he went to the grocery store with daddy and enjoyed his licorice. :)

SUGAR-FREE

I've been doing a sugar-free challenge with my mom, Sophi and a few other women and we don't eat sugar Sunday through Friday and on Saturday we get a free day and can eat as much sugar as we want. What keeps us going and diligent is we have to report to everyone in the group each night and it's not fun to confess that you cheated and when you see that everyone else is sugar-free you think, I can do this! It is very hard, some days are harder than others but when we started this challenge and I was not eating things that were presented to me I realized how much sugar we actually eat! It has been especially difficult around this Halloween time when I have buckets of yummy candy that I want to eat and I know where it is hiding! :) Tonight I watched a movie "Hotel for Dogs" with my kids in my bed and I put our two bowls of candy in front of us and we just ate and ate until we were sick! I also ate a sugar cookie earlier in the day that I had been saving in my freezer! Oh and later tonight after the kids went to bed Jake and I watched a movie "The Proposal" and I broke open the box of Dark Chocolate Raisinets and ate half the box! What a FUN, sugar filled, yummy day!