Bye-bye sugar and a whoopie pie

Today starts a 14 day hiatus from eating sugar for me.  I've got just a few stubborn baby pounds left that I want to get rid of and a need to break my sugar cravings and kick my sweet tooth to the curb.  So I've set myself a beginning goal of a short and manageable two weeks with a strict approach.  I do so love sweet things - but I really do know how terrible sugar is for me, so it's really not too disappointing.  The rule is no sweets, desserts, sugar, honey, agave syrup, foods containing a significant amount of sugars, and a limit to my fruit consumption for these 14 days (I don't do artificial sweeteners, so there really won't be much substitute for sweet treats).  I do have one exception built in - Matt's birthday.  I will have a serving of his birthday dessert to celebrate.  I think that setting a short duration plus one built in cheat to look forward to gives me confidence that I'll reach my goal - and then I hope to reset my goal for an additional two weeks.  

Speaking of sweets - while we were in PA, I tried my first Whoopie Pie! (like what is pictured here)  Oh my! - I couldn't even finish it because the filling is pretty much just icing and it was just too overwhelmingly sweet for me, which is a difficult feat to accomplish.  The bite I had was good though, but I couldn't continue on.  I wondered if there was much variation depending upon where you purchase them? or if you can pretty much count upon them to be the same.  

Comments

[stephanie balvin]

sugar is in everything, best of luck! Let us know how it goes.

[Jessi]

There is some variations in whoopie pies, but for the most part, they're the same. Sometimes you can find ones made with pumpkin too. My mother-in-law makes awesome whoopie pies, but I agree, it's hard to eat a whole one. They also freeze well and are super-yummy to eat after partially thawing. Mmmm...

Oh, after all that, kudos to you on the no-sugar thing!