Thursday, December 12, 2024

Temptations everywhere

I will say I've notice, since cutting down on sugar (most days I don't have anything with added sugar) that I have not been experiencing the energy crashes I used to always get around mid afternoon. I had one yesterday - why? well most likely because Tuesday afternoon I had a chocolate covered donut and then yesterday Mr Neighbor dropped off some holiday treats his wife made and I had a couple of those. Mid afternoon yesterday I could hardly stay awake. I will have to do my best to not eat the treats. DH rarely will eat them, he never eats the treats anyone ever drops off, so I end up eating all of them. Looks like there are 3 different kinds in the container. One I did not like at all - looked delicious but way too sweet for me. The other one I tried looked kind of like a chocolate chip cookie, but flatter and cut into triangles. And it wasn't chocolate chips in them - dates, I think, and that one was really good.

After we got dh's blood draw done, we stopped at the store in town to pick up some milk. DH went in with me and we always have to walk past the donuts (it's a very small store LOL) and usually they never have any donuts left by afternoon (or even late morning) but lately they seem to have donuts still. And since we rarely get them, like once every 2-3 months (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!) we treated ourselves. DH loves the maple bars. I had a chocolate covered bar. Honestly, it was probably 2 months since we last had a donut, we don't go to that store very often and most of the time they are out of donuts. They do make very delicious fresh donuts.

One these holidays and extra food/treats are done with in 2 weeks, I am back to what I have been eating/not eating. Then just as I was done with work yesterday our little neighbor boy down the street (who is getting so tall and big now! he's in 2nd grade) stopped by with the Christmas treat his mom made - a freshly baked loaf of sourdough bread. Yum! It was still warm. Then UPS showed up with a gift from our good friends in TX (the ones we went on the cruise with) and it was a box of apples, pears and some nuts and cheese. I'm actually more excited to see the goodies in this box than the sweets we've gotten, so that's a good sign, right? 

DH noticed the tiny package under the tree last night. LOL! It's already driving him crazy what it could be. DD thought this was hilarious. 

I guess my side job will go on about 4 more months and then I'll be done. It would be great if about the time I lose that income, I get another raise at my regular job ;)


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