homeschoolmom

we made it through ‘no sweet week’. i made a blackberry pie to celebrate on Sunday. The girls also made cookies. oh, and we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast on sunday. hows that for breaking no sweet week.

It is hard but i think it is a great way to teach our kids and ourselves how important it is to eat healthy. you do not realize how much sugar is in the typical american diet until you do something like this. we did not cut sugar out of our diet for the week. i am not sure how to do that- sugar is in everything - even stuff like spaghetti sauce.

Well its day 4 of no sweet week.  Its “that time of the month” . A dose of chocolate would be very good, but alas - its no sweet week. I have done this before so I can do it again. No one said it would be easy.

My kids really crack me up with thier attempts to get no sweet week canceled. My ten year old said she was feeling really bad and had a headache because she needs some sugar. I told her if she feels that bad, she really needs to keep off the sweets so her body can detox. (ha-ha) She didnt like that. On the plus side she was at church on Wednesday and her class had chocolate. She didnt eat any even when the others told her she should just have one. Way to go! 

I have been bribing my 2  1/2 year old with candy to potty train.  I havent given any candy and he is still using the potty. Yeah.

So I would say it is a sucess so far and I will be happy when Sunday comes!   

We do this every so often at my house. It was my husbands idea. We call it “no sweet week”. From Monday to Saturday (we get Sunday off) for a full week we can not eat any sweets - candy, cookies, cake, muffins, etc. The kids hate it. I admit is is really hard for a sugar fantic like me but I am very stubborn and dont want it to be said that I cant do it!

So this week is no sweet week. We figured it was a good time since we just had Halloween and way to much candy at our house.

Last week in the fitness survivor challenge I made it my personal goal to have no Halloween candy for the week and I did it! I am so proud of myself.  Now we have no sweet week and still no candy for me. I feel so good about ont overinduldging on candy this Halloween!

Wish me luck to make it through no sweet week. The hardest part is listening to the kiddos complain.

I am back home after being gone all day yesterday. The weather is beautiful so I am going to make this brief so I can get outside with the kids. I am feeling good about this survivor challenge I am on. I think it is just the thing to motivate me. I hope that I not only lose weight but also keep it off!

I have never done a blog before so this is very new to me. I am still trying to figure out how everything works.  My husband is away at a mens retreat and I am home with the kiddos. I have 4 children ages 10,8,5 and 2. I also homeschool them. We are very busy.  I am tired all the time so I figured losing my baby fat would help give me more energy. I know chasing four kids around also make me tired. Anyway I figure I should give this a try so here I am!