Good-bye Sugar.

As many of you know, I like food and I like healthy food. I went years without eating sugar. From around my child's first year of life until six years ago (about 9 years total), if sugar was on the label I did not purchase it; I didn't bake with it and I just didn't eat it. (I did, however, have organic, dark fair trade on hand at all times.)

Through this, I got to the point where sugar was something I had no interest in, nor any craving for. My child was not raised on sugar -- it was just our norm. When we changed cities, however, this changed drastically. Moving is something that always affects my eating and cooking habits as without my stores and shopping route of little markets, I get thrown way off-track. It takes a lot of leg work to rebuild that.

Also, while working from home all those years, I had full control over my meals at all hours of the day. Work and school environments, however, are notorious for offering despicable choices of food. Sometimes I cave and sometimes I maintain good boundaries... Today? I had gluten-free oreo cookies, a sugar cookie with icing sugar and a chocolate chip granola bar.

I know people say that it is okay to have a treat now and then but that call is for each of us to make. I really feel the effects of inviting sugar back into my life. Our meals at home are back on-track and now I must work on my polite declines at work and outside the home. I'm ready to be squeakly clean again