Sugar Fast Day 20

And just like that we’re halfway through! Day 20 is here!

How does that make you feel to know that everything is downhill from here? I hope you feel inspired and motivated.

My hopes are that you have found a steady rhythm and routine with your sugar free existence thus far. Not to say that it’s no longer difficult. I know it was not easy for me to avoid licking my cookie dough covered fingers as I made cookies for my kiddos the other day. It just seemed wrong to wash my hands instead of eating the sugary bits off of them.

But there’s something so powerful about this fast for many reasons. The resurgence of mindfulness of what’s good for me and what’s not, is such a huge blessing. Because realistically if I had eaten the dough at ten o’clock at night, then I most likely would have followed it by downing a cookie or two (or more-eeeik), gotten sick, only to be smacked with a late-night sugar rush.

As challenging as it is at times to not join in at dessert at a friend’s house or avoid scarfing down a cookie in one gulp, there’s something so freeing about being able to say, “No. I don’t need this. And it’s not going to make me feel good.”

Today I hope you are contented with your newfound ease of being able to say no to those sugary fixes. Keep on this track of being mindful. There’s so much freedom that comes along with it!

-Tara xo