stay in candy strike

At least well enough.
One year ago, I decided I’d go one year without candy, soda, cakes, cookies, popcorn, chips, ice-cream etc. (Only special occasions as exceptions. For example cake at a birthdayparty.)

Now one year has passed and I feel I can tick this off. Actually, I didn’t succeed entirely, because as time went by I became less and less strict with my strike. It started at birthdayparties, where I didn’t stick to one piece of cake, but insted took the opportunity to really eat as much as I could.

Then I started finding more and more “special occasions”, for instance when I visited my grandparents or a friend and they offered me some cake. Okay, that probably sounds as I really failed this, but I still kept to the strike quite well, because I never took candy, not even when offered some at parties, and I never bought any cookies or anything myself. At least not before November and December.

Then I bought these chocolate balls that a class was selling in order to get money. They are really, really good, and not sold in shops, so I convinced myself that I really couldn’t miss the opportunity. Of course, I could’ve just bought the balls and saved them for now, but… I’ve never been able to have candy without eating it… And well, chocolate isn’t really candy, is it? ;)

And then, Christmas came. So now I’ve been eating all kinds of sweets starting with the 24 of December. And then, today I decided to stop my candy strike. It wasn’t supposed to stop before Monday, but then, as today and tomorrow were going to count as special occasions anyway, why not stop already and have a real candy-party? And that I’ve sure done today! I went to the shop and spent nearly 30 euros on candy and cookies! =S And I’ve been eating a lot of it today. I’ll continue tomorrow, but then, on the new year’s day, I can start a new, healthier life again, and not eat so much.

I won’t start a new strike, because that feels so restricting, but I sure will eat less candy than I’ve used to do. Maybe I’ll eat once a week. Or once every 10 days. We’ll see.

I kind of regret that I’ve told everyone about staying in candy strike for a year, because now my pride won’t let me stop it. =D Maybe that’s a good thing, but sometimes I just feel like eating candy, and it’s frustrating not to able to. Of course I Can stay in candy strike for the whole year, it’s just that I don’t want to… I made a too big promise. But as I said, I’ll just have to keep it. But it’s not that hard. And I’ll probably be very glad after a year. But damn I’m looking forward to next January!

I almost gave this up a couple of days ago! Or no, I wasn’t going to actually give up on the strike, because it has gone really well, and it isn’t even hard, but I was going to count some chocolate as a special occasion, even if it wasn’t. The thing is that my grandmother came to visit us from Spain, and she brought us this lovely lovely chocolate that you can’t even buy here where I live. I could have saved the chocolate for later, but since I’m going to stay in candy strike for a year, it would have gone bad… So that’s why I thought that, well, this surely counts as a special occasion, and I almost ate it, but fortunately I didn’t! Because then it wouldn’t be a real candy strike, would it? And yes, I’ve got certain conditions, but the special occasions are only times when I’m for example at someones birthday or something where it would be embarracing or difficult to explain about my candy strike. But in other cases I will stay strong!

I’ve been on shorter candy-strikes many times, but I think my record is about a month or so. Now I’ll try to go for a year. I know, it’s a very long time, but I suppose you get used to being without candy after a while.

For me the candy-strike also includes soda, chips, cakes, bisquits, popcorn, ice cream… The only exeption is if I go to a cousins wedding or my grandmothers birthday or something like that, I can eat a little bit of cake or whatever there is, because I think it would be impolite not to do it, and maybe cause problems to start explaining in front of your relatives that you are on a candy strike.

I’ve tried to get my friends to join my candy strike, and I’ve got a few who are doing it too, but I’ll still try to get more people. It’s very good for you!

I once stayed in candy strike for a year. Now I have 4 weeks behind me.