Special occasions

Yesterday was Labor Day, September 1st. As with previous sugar elimination attempts, I went back to eating sugar the day after a depletingly challenging sugar-free day. This time it was my sister's BBQ. There were easily 10 different types of desserts there. And about 9 of them were very tempting. I white-knuckled through it, and then had zucchini bread for breakfast the next day because it was September 1st. But it didn't stop with zucchini bread. I had a square of chocolate after lunch and some apple pie with ice cream at my in-laws' after dinner. 

So this morning I thought about how I can reincorporate sweets into my life so as not to feel deprived but also so that I don't quickly return to my old ways of daily overconsumption. And I came up with this: one day a week and  special occasions (not to exceed 2 days a week total). So yesterday was my special occasion. So I may have sweets one other day this week. "Special occasion" is admittedly subjective, but that's ok because I put an upper limit so I have to make choices about which days are special enough to justify. I anticipate deciding at the beginning of the week whether I foresee any special occasions so that I may plan accordingly. 

So that means today I am back to no sugar. And I feel really good about that but not at all deprived. Here's to the start of a new experiment, in moderation!