So, I'm sitting here freaking out about how much I messed up last week (the first real mess up that resulted in my first gain since I started losing weight!) and as I'm beating myself up thinking about how weak I must be...and here we go again, I better get back control before it gets out of hand...cuz it ALWAYS gets out of hand and why is that anyway...and on and on, one freak out after the next...when I flip the magazine I'm desperately reading, trying to find a huge dose of motivation and my eyes fixate on the word "sugar" and of course I'm going to read it next!

I'm sure it would be a copyright infringement to rewrite it in it's entirety here, so I will just tell you that it's a MUST read and you can find the article in the January issue of Oxygen Magazine. The article is titled "Of Grit and Grain" on page 56. EVERYTHING she says in this article is exactly what I have come to realize through trial and tribulation in my own journey thus far. It was so enlightening to hear someone else state my findings as their own truth, and the truth of thousands of other women who have come to realize the same things. She talks about the Food Industry, which many of you know, I have HUGE issues with, and the information in the article truly made me even more resolved that sugar is in fact detrimental to my health and I need to work on getting rid of as much of it as possible. Currently I have organic brown sugar in my coffee in the mornings...I use to drink one cup a day. I've noticed that since eating clean my coffee consumption has gone to 4 or 5 cups a day (and night - decaf) and I suspect now that it's due to my body craving the sugar...I seem to always want a cup of coffee. I LOVE coffee and don't want to give it up but I dunno, it might have to come to that. I'm not willing to sabotage my efforts, my health, my life for a cup of coffee. I know I can drink it black, but that's not nearly as appealing, obviously. For a sugar addict, loading it with cream and sugar is like drinking a slice of cake! lol

Anyway, I seriously encourage you to check out the article. The whole magazine is a great read!