sprinklefingers

and i feel exactly like i did before i started. honest.

i have a lot of friends who have done cleanses. and juice fasts. and diets. and other crazy stuff. and they always say how GREAT they feel after eliminating the evil that is sugar (or dairy! or wheat! or meat!) from their diets.

so, even though i own a bakery and work at that bakery 7 days a week, i decided to cut out sugar, dairy, wheat and meat for 5 days just to see what would happen. and NOTHING HAPPENED. i kept waiting to feel better. to come out of a fog (which i didn’t feel like i was in in the first place, but who knows. maybe not eating sugar would trigger some magical reaction and a non-existent but pesky fog would lift from my head and everything would be fine. and i’d be prettier and younger and have fewer gray hairs. see, magic!)

what i can see being beneficial for me is not completely cutting out sugar, dairy, wheat and meat, but instead, eating less of it. i mean, i’ll be the first to admit that there have been some days lately where i’ve eaten (literally) 8 cookies followed by a few handfuls of milk chocolate and several slices of cheese - and that didn’t make me feel too hot. BUT! a cookie. and maybe a bite or two of chocolate. and a chunk of cheese - big deal.

eat less. feel great. that’s something i can get behind.