Sugar is my Nemesis

Sugar has a terrible grip on me and I am getting very frustrated with it.

I have noticed myself, over the last month, maybe two, eating more sweets.  I am not having any problem avoiding wheat, so my sweets don't come in the form of cakes, cookies and pies.  They come in the form of Hershey bars, hard candy, and ice cream.

I feel very good about every other aspect of my health care regime.  I have a healthy diet, I exercise regularly, I get plenty of sleep, I drink a lot of water...and I eat candy.  The sweets have got to stop.

When Jack and I were in Belgium we picked up a few boxes of locally made chocolates.  Oh my, yes they are good.  Yesterday morning there were two pieces left in one of the boxes.  I ate them with my coffee.  Delicious.  But that was it.  As soon as I popped them in my mouth I declared that that was that.  No more sweets.

Then all day long all I thought about was sugar.  It is an addiction.  I know it is and it pisses me off.  I barely made it through the day without going totally nuts.

Everything I read says that the exception to the rule about sugar is 85% cocoa dark chocolate, so I will allow myself up to one serving a day of that.  Otherwise, sweets are off limits.

I need to do this.  I need to stop eating sugar.  It is the last piece of the puzzle that I need to put into place.

I just want to yell at the top of my lungs, HELP!!!!!!  Why, oh why, does sugar have such a powerful grip?  I guess I should be thankful that this is my only real addiction, but I want it gone and I want it gone now!!

By the way, I am not consuming any artificial sweeteners, so I feel good about that.  I also don't sweeten any of my food with sugar.  It might sound silly to say this, but all of the sugar I am eating comes in the form of sweets so I don't have to alter how I am cooking, shopping, etc... in order to avoid sugar.  I just have to stop eating candy and ice cream.  Should be easy enough.  Should be...