Halfway mark

Good things have happened.  We are halfway there!  The month without sugar is all downhill from here - we are just going to coast on home.

Bad things have happened, too.  We have not been posting every day.  So sorry to have let a few days lapse this week.  It is not for lack of energy though. Perhaps it is from having so much more get-up-and-go that we haven't been sitting around the house slumped over the computer.  Michelle and Tom have been very busy and productive this week!

The first three days without sugar are always the most difficult.  Tom has referred to this time period as the "three day rampage".  It takes a commitment backed by a strong will to try eliminating sugar from the diet to survive the first three days.  

For most people, the first week or so is another important timeframe to surpass. There are some folk that start to come unglued in their resolve during this time.  It can happen so easily.  We even had a few moments where the desire for something as innocent as an apple pie could have derailed the excellent effort and progress that we had already achieved.  Tom almost had some wedding cake at a gig he was playing - in this case, not out of desire but because he wasn't mindful of his no sugar month.  He was on auto-pilot and that's just the type of thing that people would eat in that setting! 

The feedback from some of the sugarless people we know is that they have also been on "cruise control" of late.  It seems that after the getting over a few of the initial humps, people have been telling us that it has become easy to live the sugarless life. So, after the first 3 days, then the first week, and now after passing the halfway mark - congratulations to us all!