Craving & Savoring

So in the three days since I began fasting from alcohol, white sugar & flour,  I've already had my ups and downs...

Staving off the cravings:

-On Wednesday night, while shopping at Trader Joe's, I couldn't put sugar in the sample coffee.  I even asked if they could give me honey, but no, they didn't have any open, so I only had one small cup instead of my usual two, which was probably better or I might have stayed up even later - I've been on a night owl streak since then.

-We had Chinese take-out for our Valentine's dinner and I had to forego the chow mein & sweet n sour chicken, as well as what were described as sushi rolls, but turned out to be salmon and avocado deep fried in spring roll wrappers.  I also couldn't have the fortune cookies, but that wasn't really a big deal. 

-Tonight is book club - can't have wine or chocolate or whatever other sweet treats might be served.

-Pretzels somehow mysteriously entered the house (husband somehow acquired them) - I immediately hid them high in the pantry. 

-At TJ's, I bought honey roasted peanuts and their new cheese rocket crackers for the kids, who have been snacking on them the last two days.

-I've felt like having a Jolly Rancher a few times, just to have something sweet in my mouth.

-The It's Its we were too full to eat on Fat Tuesday have been staring at me every time I open the freezer.

Now for the delicious bits:

-I discovered two new foods at Trader Joe's that I can eat, which are quite tasty and have very few ingredients:  Dark Chocolate Honey Mints (honey, chocolate liqueur, oil of peppermint) and Whole Wheat Tuscan Pane Bread (whole wheat flour, water, sea salt, yeast). 

-The above means I can still enjoy my favorite snack of toast with coconut oil, honey, and cinnamon.

-I had one of my favorite Chinese dishes - lettuce cups - and my husband gave me his after we discovered the sushi rolls were actually spring rolls, so I got to have two of them. I also had rice with shrimp, which I realized afterwards probably had sugar in the sauce - same thing for the bell peppers I ate out of the sweet and sour chicken. I was so focused on breading than I forgot about sweetness.

-I can still eat cheese, my favorite food!  

-I'm having more fruit and juice (100%) but not overdoing it.  

-Lox, cured meats, eggs, peanut butter, nuts, etc., are more enticing to me than carby stuff.