Almost out of the woods...

Last Sat. & Sun. I did a two-day Isagenix cleanse and felt MUCH better on Monday in terms of control over sugar (enemy #1) and I was fine all week. 

I was tested yesterday when I found myself alone in the same room with a huge tray of cookies. AND... I didn't have the slightest urge to take one. No internal dialogue at all and no physical cravings.

It's amazing when I don't have the toxic sugar in my body how easy it is to just pass up cookies, etc. and how impossible it is to pass it up when I do have sugar in my system. 

People say "wow, you have such great willpower!"  Has my willpower suddenly changed?? NO!  It is virtually impossible for my willpower to have any chance of working when the stuff is in my system. So don't beat yourself up for having no willpower -- you DO have willpower but it's being overridden by the addictive nature of sugar/fats.

60 Minutes - Is Sugar Toxic?

Tonight CBS 60 Minutes aired "Is Sugar Toxic?"  Anyone reading this blog already knows the answer to that :). Of course there wasn't anything new to me in that report (including that sugar fuels the growth of certain cancer cells) but it makes me understand again why it's been so hard for me to reach my goal.

The reason why I have not reached my goal yet is because each time I was within 10 lbs I broke my sugar fast and ate a small bite of something. The reason why I sabotaged myself is another issue.

Anyway, here is a link to the 60 Minutes segment