So I have made a bet with my roommate, if I go the entire month of October without having sweet snacks than he will buy me lots of candy. Now for those of you who know me really well you will know that this will be very very hard for me since I LOVE candy and sweets. I am the sort of person that would eat only candy if I could, I love sweet things and candy is the sweetest. The bet includes things like ice-cream and cake too so even my non-candy sweet foods have been impacted. I will have to get my sweet fix in other ways, soda is still ok but after a bit I get sick of it after a while so that is not the solution. The only other alternative that I have been able to come up with is fruit. They have many natural sweeteners and are quite good. I will have to eat more strawberries, pineapples, apples, blueberries and fruits like them. With my candy budget stopped (which is a sizable budget) I now have more funds to have more fruits and yogurt with fruit. For a few months now I have been having yogurt with fruit but I will be having a lot more this month.
The bet has two main purposes the first is to help me eat less candy. Over the summer my brother made the comment that I was “addicted” to it. While I do not agree with this theory I would say that it is something that this month will prove or disprove. If I am able to go the entire month without eating candy or sweets then it will be a good argument against his theory. The bet will also help me be a bit healthier, with less sugar and more fruit I should have a good month of October health wise. As they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and I will be having many this month. So that’s a month of no doctors.
As you may have noticed I am posting this three days into the month so you may be wondering how it’s going. So far it is going well. I have yet to have chocolate or other sweet treats but I have had numerous yogurts with fruit. There is a bad thing though, I bought two things of chocolate to eat the last day of September but I only ate one of them so I have another that has been staring at me, taunting me with its chocolate goodness. Right now I would say I am doing well in the bet but I know that it will get harder, there have been many Lent’s that I have tried to go cold turkey from chocolate for forty days and have yet to do it. While this is ten days less it will be difficult. I typically failed half way through lent or about two thirds through this bet. I hope it goes well. Feel free to eat chocolate and candy as a show of support for me.
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