30 Days Without Chocolate
I have a massive sweet tooth. It’s almost genetic for my family. I honestly think there were months of my life where I ate chocolate – in some form or another – every single day. It’s embarrassing, but as a 30 year old adult, I cannot say that I’ve EVER gone 30 whole days without eating chocolate. I’ve been eating healthy with my husband for a month, and I almost cannot believe that I made it 30 whole days without it. I didn’t die? I didn’t need it to get through the regular stresses of life? It didn’t jump down my throat as I walked through the breakroom? Sometimes it felt like the only thing that would keep me sane was a candy bar or an ice cream treat. I think a lot of people here love food, and man do I love chocolate. If I got the choice, I would choose chocolate over any other kind of food – pizza or cake? Cake. Burger or milkshake? Milkshake. A perfectly cooked steak with buttery mashed potatoes or a warm chocolate chip cookie? Cookie (that’s a close one though). I enjoy baking, so I’d always have a bag of chocolate chips around, and wouldn’t be usual for me to grab a handful (or 5) to snack on in the evening when I needed a fix.
In the last 30 days, I’ve turned down people handing me chocolate Hershey kisses, birthday cake (3 times!), mocha lattes, donuts every single Friday, and a giant box of chocolate chip cookies. I’ve consciously decided to: not go buy myself fancy chocolate bars from the grocery store (because they aren’t that bad for you, right? It’s expensive chocolate!), Peanut Butter M&Ms, a candy bar every time I stop to fill up on gas, not go try that new rolled ice cream place downtown even though it’s 100+ degrees outside. I’ve made the choice to not treat myself with my biggest weakness, and I’ve never had the strength to make that choice for so long before.
I’m not close to being done yet at 30 days in. I’ve got months (maybe years) of work ahead of me to be healthy. When I think about how many more times I’m going to have to choose the harder path instead of the easier, more comfortable one, it’s so incredibly overwhelming. But thinking of today, just today - I can make those choices today. And that’s good enough.
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