I am half way through my month without sweets and up until now it’s been surprisingly easy. That is, until today.
For the past two weeks I’ve had a few cravings for chocolate and milk tea, my two most common indulgences (after quitting all the others). I’ve replaced them with granola cereal and dried fruit in yogurt (probably has a little unnatural sugar but minimal in comparison) and fresh fruit. Those have served well to quench the minor cravings I’ve had.
But today I was faced with a new challenge
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Associations and Triggers
I’m currently away from my home base, in a town I’ve been to twice with some people I see now and then (being as vague as possible here haha). Last time I was here, I brought them some high quality chocolate chip cookies and shamelessly ate half of my gift to them. The cookies were placed in their TV room.
This year, every time I pass the room I think about chocolate chip cookies. This association is hard to ignore because those particular cookies are my very favorite ultra sweet unhealthy food and they are hard to find, so whenever I think of them, I want to scoff down as many as I can.
As I write I, walking past the room and my mouth is drippin*g like Pavlov’s dogs. Arrrrg. I finally understand my friends who try quit smoking. The only solution I’ve had is to distract myself but we have a lot of time here and it’s quite difficult.
At least there are none of those cookies here right now,otherwise im notnsure I’d be able to resist. I’m quite sure i would justify a bite and one bite would become a whole box.
16 days to go!
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