True Love

Because I’ve not been feeling well the last little bit (I’ve had two colds in the last 18 days on top of the heart problems), Karen decided to buy me some flowers while we were shopping the other day. Isn’t she sweet!

Wait, what? Flowers? Are you sure those are for me? You *say* they are, but I think they’re for you. Nice one, Karen.

Green

So just over four weeks ago I stopped eating sugar. It was painful to say the least. The first few days were a killer. My head swam and I craved so bad. I’ve quit other things before, and this was second only to smoking on the OMG I WANT TO KILL SOMEONE scale.

Those that know me know that my idea of dinner is two chocolate bars and a bag of Doritos all washed down with a couple of Diet Pepsis. It wasn’t the healthiest lifestyle, and I wasn’t really that big, but I figured it was time to slim down from 221 to a more desirable and healthy weight.

Four weeks was this last Monday and I lost 20+ pounds. All dropped by eating low G.I. foods and continuing with the walking and biking I have been doing all Winter. Not bad for a compulsive eater. I can’t ever stop at one of anything… I need MORE – especially when it’s junk food.

The photo is of part of what I was preparing for dinner. It was super-yum and I ate a huge amount of it but I’m afraid today is the day I eat my first piece of real chocolate. I had a couple of chunks of 71% Cacao chocolate this week and it was delicious and I really do like it… and then my Mom gave me a huge Hershey bar and it’s sitting in my freezer calling out to me. I’m going to eat some of it and I can’t stop myself.