I Give Up!

Alright, I’m halfway through Day 1 of Lent. I’ve decided to give up my biggest vice of all, sweets. I’m cringing as I type. Naptime, a mom’s only break during the day, is the WORST time of the day for me as far as sweets are concerned. It’s so easy to sit at my computer and eat and eat and eat one piece of Halloween candy after another. So here I am, at the computer, finishing up nap. Barely surviving, exaggerating…slightly. It’s only because I know I have to succeed because this change, 40 days or more, isn’t about me.

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What’s worse??

I’m in the middle of this big “shed” as I like to call it. I am getting rid of anything we don’t actively use, clothes especially. The other day I made the mistake of trying on my “fat” clothes. Surely I’m not the only one who has a few of these? Before anybody goes unliking this, their named fat clothes because I fit into them when I’m eating too much fat, ya know, crappy food. Well, it happened. They weren’t falling off anymore like they did the last time I tried them on. In fact, they actually looked cute! :O Gasp, I know! I guess that increasing number on the scale wasn’t in fact lying.

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