Success. No chocolate. No cakes. No sweets. No sweet pastries. I have survived days 2, 3, 4 and 5. However. I was tempted. But I think it was my brain playing tricks on me. You know when you say you can’t have something and you just want it? Its like telling a kid you can’t touch that, what do they do? They touch it. Well... I was thinking about chocolate. I touched chocolate (from the packaging). I even bought chocolate!! Don’t get to gaspy yet, I didn’t buy it with the intention of eating it. Well., YET. I bought myself an additional Red Tulip elegant rabbit Easter egg for the end of my successful lent. I have stashed said Mr Bunny away, high in the cupboard for safe keeping, ready to be opened and eaten in 6 weeks time. Less 2 days.
My diet thus far, however, has consisted of some excessive eating. Excessive in a mad, desperate attempt to avoid giving into the temptation of (on day 2) buying a date scone. Now, just a sidebar on that note. Date scones. Would they fall into my category of sweets? They are full of carbs. They have some sugar in them. But they aren’t cake. So I guess I could eat a date scone... However. I decided to resist the urge because 1) I love date scones. I mean, I have been addicted to date scones in the past. Which means 2) if I allow myself date scones on this new healthy eating plan, then I will eat them everyday because ‘hey I’m allowed to’. So. In saying that, I’ve decided, I’m not allowed to. But I guess if I ate one a week it wouldn’t hurt ,... lol anyway, where was I. Oh yes. What I ate on day 2. Gee this is riveting stuff. Breakfast. Weetbix with bran, pear and cranberries with skim milk. Looking good so far. Then I had a cup of tea with a wholemeal slice of toast with honey. But no butter! Well done bottleshop girl on the no butter. High five. Admittedly, I didn’t really need to have the slice of toast as well. I got a bit crazy there. Late morning I ate some health nut bar made by Uncle Tobys. They are low in fat and low in sugar. I know because I checked the label. therefore. It must be true. And they are a something or rather of my daily fibre intake. They are quite nice actually. After that I went to Coles to buy food. Healthy stuff of course. I was most disappointed to discover that they had no Weight Watchers biscuits!!!! This had me in quite a dilemma. I want a treat. But I want one that is good, well, better. Low in sugar. In the end I settled on some low fat, low sugar ‘light’ McVities digestive wheat biscuits. I was feeling a bit ravenous (not sure why, I had a big breakfast!), and ate two in the car. Hmmm. Not too bad tho really. Its not like I sat there scoffing into a date scone right?
So off I went home and made a beautiful healthy sandwich – wholemeal bread, spinach, celery, carrot, cucumber, red onion, tomato, a slice of ‘light’ cheese and tuna. It was yum. Oh and a tiny smither of butter... Later I had a cup of green tea (high five) with a fruit bun. Yes i know what you’re thinking. I probably shouldn’t have the fruit bun? But, wouldn’t a fruit bun fall into the same category as the date scone? It doesn’t quite fall into my ‘sugar temptations’ list that I have decided to avoid for 6 weeks. Like for example: cake, cake, cake,.... tarts, custard Danish, choc chip buns, desserts.... apple pie... oh god. Yum, how I love these treats! So a measly fruit bun. Its worth 1 point on the Weight Watchers program so I figure a fruit bun here or there doesn’t bloody hurt too much... now if I sat and ate mud cake. That’s a different story.
So then I went to work and packed an apple, carrot sticks, celery sticks and a mix of nuts/cranberries/prunes. And boy did I hoe into those to avoid the date scone temptation. However. Alas. I did cave. But not for sugar. But for fat. Chips. Hot chips. In a bowl with tomato sauce. Regretted it after, but at least I didn’t break my lent. So then I had steak with it, and later a cup of tea and two Weight Watchers jam droplet biscuits. I ate too much. In fact, my stomach ached.
On Day 3, I started with a 6 am bootcamp session followed by one latte and weekly muffin. How did I feel? Well, of course I felt good after some exercise but, surprisingly, I didn’t enjoy the muffin as much as I thought I would. Perhaps its the guilt I am experiencing from those hot chips, or the guilt that I am ‘letting’ myself have a muffin. Funny, as I ate the muffin (which was very yummy I might add), all I could taste was sugar. Sweetness. Calories. Hmmm. So, in my wise ways I have decided to make my challenge harder. No more weekly muffins. My one rule exception – out the window! Could I really go 6 weeks with no sweet treats AT ALL? I guess we shall see! I did however, buy some Weight Watchers fruit slice biscuits (yes found some at the opposition). They will be my treat, and I think a couple of those here and there is nothing too bad to feel guilty about. Right? Right. I also bought some beautiful fattening yoghurt. In small treat sizes, that is my dairy treat. Needless to say, the muffin and coffee was my breakfast. No need to overeat now is there? When I came home , I did have a cup of tea and a piece of dark rye toast with a smidgen, I repeat smidgen, of butter and vegemite. So good and yummy. And guess what?! I'm going to see if in this 6 week period of bottleshopgirl’s version of lent, I can cut back on coffee. This is something I never thought I would do. But, hey, it seems I am up for a challenge at the moment. You may care to ask me again about this particular aspect of the challenge in a couple of weeks’ time. Perhaps two coffees per week? And the rest of the time, tea galore. I do actually enjoy a good cup of strong tea. It seems I’m about to enjoy it a whole lot more.
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