I'm not eating sweets for 21 days

Lately I've been really noticing that I always have this major need to have something sweet after my meals (lunch & dinner anyways) and since I eat whatever I want pretty much I satisfy my cravings. Some of you know I used to be majorly addicted to dieting. I would eat super clean for a while and get pretty lean. But then I would always get to the point when I would feel deprived and binge on junk food for a day or 2 then feel terrible about it and put myself right back on clean eating until I felt deprived again and then the vicious cycle would repeat itself. A year and a half ago I read a book called intuitive eating the truly changed my life. It taught me how to break that dieting cycle, listen to my body and finally have a healthy relationship with food again.

My friend Kat has a diet/fitness blog its mommygoodbody.blogspot.com if you want to check it out. I was on it the other day and she proposed a challenge for everyone to make a diet or fitness related goal and stick to it for 21 days. You report back on her blog each day that you succeed. Each of those reports is a entry and at the end there is a drawing for someone to win a cute workout clothes item. Since I've had this sugar addiction after meals I said I would cut down to sweeting after 1 meal instead of 2. Kat sort of called me out and said that wasn't good enough and I should be more ambitious and cut sweets out all together. I thought by cutting out treats completely it would be going against intuitive eating and I was afraid I could possibly end up feeling deprived and end up bingeing on sweets at some point. So my original thought was that I was way too scared to do that and it wasn't a good idea. Kat helped me realize that I was eating these sweets after meals out of habit, not really as legitimate, every once in a while sweet craving, and the only way to break this habit it to cut out the sweets completely. She is right. While I believe being a intuitive eater is healthy, having a sugar addiction is not. Thats why I have decided to cut out sweet treats for 21 days. I always feel SO much better when I keep the sugar at bay (not to mention I get a lot leaner) so I'm actually really excited to do this and feel really good again. If you feel so inclined you should do it with me, the challenge officially starts tomorrow. I could use a buddy for support.