Day 1 Report

Ok. I am officially sugar free, and have been for 24 hours. Do you know what that means? Let me just tell you. Yesterday was my birthday. No birthday cake, dessert, or sweets for this girl! I know, I know, sounds completely tragic. But surprisingly? It wasn't that bad. In fact, by the time I went to bed, I thought to myself,"Ya know, I just might get through this without withdrawals or anything. I may skip all that stuff and go straight to the point of not craving it anymore."

Lest ye feel I am a complete fool, listen up. I woke up and re-evaluated my hypothesis. The truth is, this is going to suck. I know it. I know it because I really really want to munch on gummies to make this work day go by quicker, and I really really want to go home and eat ice cream while I watch a movie after a long, busy reporter's day.

Alas, I will do neither of these things. Instead, I shall go home, eat my fish and rice (to top off a day of a protein shake and homemade chili) and drown my sorrows in a, er, a bowl of sugar free cereal. There.

Hopefully some of you are not poor, destitute, scrawny grad students like me. Should this be the case, you may drown your ever mounting sorrows associated with the absence of sugar in a bowl of delicious (yet costly) agave sweetened coconut ice cream, as Janette mentioned, found in most grocery stores near you.