Day Twenty - Rambling

I can't believe it. I've gone twenty whole days without refined sugar or dairy. Twenty whole days without anything I would consider 'junk' food. Twenty days of clean eating. Twenty days of being on track. And you know what, I feel good. I feel really good. It's amazing the difference. It's hard to describe, but from knowing what it's like to be essentially living off crappy food, to now eating only good, clean foods - my body clearly likes the clean food better. None of those sugar highs and lows, none of that heart beating too fast in my chest, no waking up with a yucky taste in my mouth. I feel clear headed too.

I know this is something I want to keep up. I want to go sugar-free as much as I can. Dairy free too possibly, I'm not sure yet. I said I was going to reintroduce cheese, but then I didn't, and now I've decided to go at least the whole month. The longer I go without, the more I think that 'yeah, I could keep doing this'.

I still have my moments (or days sometimes) where I miss junk food, or crave a particular food that I'm not allowing myself right now... but I'm stubborn. I would be so annoyed at myself to chuck it in when I'm approaching the end of the month I promised myself. Plus, I think about how I would feel afterwards, and that puts me off straight away.

I have a few challenging days coming up over the next week or so. The little man turns four on Wednesday and he has requested chicken nuggets for tea. So, everyone but me will be having McDonalds... I'll have to think of a nice alternative so I don't feel like I'm missing out. I'll also get him a cake, but the one I'm thinking of is so sickly-sweet that I'm not even tempted to try it. Then, on the Saturday following we have his birthday party - there will be food galore and a cake that I am making, so I'll have to be careful not to taste-test the icing like I usually would! I am planning on making the naked chocolate cake again and turning the into cupcakes so there are a few things I can actually eat.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Let's get on to what I ate today (cause, it's so interesting...):

No exercise.

Breakfast: I was completely unprepared. We're running out of everything, I need to make up lots of things. So, I had a banana when I first got up.

Morning tea: Yummy yummy grapes, a cup of tea with almond milk and a Macro raw food bar (choc mint flavour).

Lunch: Lettuce, ham and tomato on two corn thins. The rest of the beetroot salad.

Afternoon tea: I spent the afternoon making things... lemon balls, raw chocolate brownie and some homemade chocolate. I also cooked a loaf of spelt bread. So, for afternoon tea I ended up having two small slices of bread with my blueberry jam, and some of the homemade chocolate. It's sugar free and dairy free, and really yummy! Better than the other recipe I've tried - having the almond butter in it makes all the difference. Oh, and a handful of grapes.

Tea: Leftover spaghetti bolognese from the other night over a mixture of spelt and wholemeal spaghetti.

Dessert/Late night snack: Two pieces of the raw chocolate brownie (though the pieces were so flat that it was really just like one piece), and a few pieces of the homemade chocolate.