DETOUR!!!
I have eaten alot of sugar the last two days. I am having major cravings all of a sudden. I think it is a quadruple wammy. Stress, I'm tired, Holiday food EVERYWHERE!, and hormones fluxing. I certainly didn't eat the 1200 calories of sugar I started out eating before my 100 days without sugar, but enough to start having aches and blurry vision and general bloated feeling again.
I have determined that I do love sweet things. God designed me with that wonderful taste bud and I still feel the need for it. But where was the detour? I was doing just fine without sugar. I let myself run completely out of the foods that I now use to satisfy my sweet tooth: bananas, grapes, pecans, pretzels, crunchy foods. So I'll be taking a trip to the market tomorrow.
I did have a delicious experience this week. Several of my grandkids were over this last weekend and the temperature was supposed to dip below freezing that night, so we headed into the garden to harvest the last of whatever we could find. It is always sad to say goodbye to the garden for the winter, but what a great harvest! I had saved a whole patch of late carrots and it was time to start pulling. It took three of us working a good 15 minutes to get them all pulled, but they were so beautiful. We brought them in with the last of the peas and the lettuce and piled the carrots up across the bar in the kitchen. When we tasted them , we were so surprised. I have never tasted a carrot so wonderfully sweet. Our early summer carrots were not sweet like these. I guess the cold ground made the difference.
Blessing! Harvest! Grandkids! What a great day! .......... I am so very thankful.
