don't eat sweets for 43 days

I did this!

harder . . .

Today would be day 30, I think. Another two weeks and I’ll be done.

I’ll try not to scarf down too many cream puffs that day.

after 22 days.

I started this again the first day of classes, so I have lasted now 11 days, i.e. a little over a quarter of the way there.

I haven’t been writing about this, it has been going very well. The last thing of this sort that I ate was the day I arrived here, August 25th.

But my next door neighbor, who has gutted the house and is doing a major renovation, just brought me a big box of See’s candies for putting up with the noise.

I could put it in the freezer and forget about it, but I just don’t think that’s going to happen.

not because I’m not doing well, because I actually am. HUGE drop in stress levels, time to myself, summer heat, getting outside regularly – mostly the first one – has me not depending on things as stress compensators. But I’m not keeping track and there’s always something every now and then which spoils it being applicable to several consecutive days.

Should I really care?

I’ve never had a weight problem in my life. Although occasionally I have wanted to drop a few pounds for the sake of clothing I already owned, I’ve always been well within a healthy weight for my height.

I guess the reason I took this on is precisely the reason I cited first, i.e., that I was bothered seeing myself eat junk out of stress, and I really wanted that to stop.

So it has, but who’s to say it won’t start right back up again once the stress does?