Well, today marks 5 months of no Pepsi. And it's one month shy of a year since I quit smoking (although I still use the vaporizer). Yay me!
I miss them both, but not
enough to start again. So that's good. I drink lots of
water, and some natural fruit juices. I am still trying to eliminate sugar, but it's soooo hard. But I'm not buying chocolate bars and cookies, and I don't drink anything that I add sugar to. But I do love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. So strawberry jam is my downfall right now. I try to get the healthy stuff, but the 'no sugar added' jam that I can get right now is yucky. So that's about the only thing that I buy that is sugary. Once I can grow my own strawberries, I can make my own jam.
I want to try using stevia instead of sugar. That's next on my list. I just got a stevia cookbook, so I'm hoping that it will enable me to eat sweets without all that sugar.
One other thing I tend to use a lot of is butter. I use butter and either coconut oil or olive oil for stir fries (I always stir fry my veggies), and I use quite a bit on rice and mashed potatoes (yum!). But it's summer now, mostly, so I'll be eating more salads, and less hot food. I like to fix a big bowl of potato salad and eat that over a few days, so there's also lots of mayo, which I LOVE. But if I can eliminate a majority of other bad stuff, and cut back on the oils for stir fries, I think that my mayo consumption will be okay. I mean, it's mayo! What is a potato salad without mayo?!
So, it's all about balance. As are so many things in life. I couldn't balance my relationship . . . so I quit that, too. C'est la vie. I'll get some
chickens to keep my company when I get my own place. They're more productive, and I can chop their heads off and eat them when they stop being productive. Seems like a better deal.
Anyway! I'm still on the wagon, and forging ahead on my quest for health and happiness. I hope you all are, too!
Cheers
Tracy
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-Art Donnelly
