Gosh, Darn, Wanna Puke It!!!...Friday, February 20

I did something really stupid, something perhaps that the average person would be okay doing but I am not, apparently as I discovered today.

One of the parts of my Valentine's Day Date Box gift to Snickers was chocolate truffles, 2 boxes of them actually.  They are a shared favourite of ours and, unknown to me, he saw the same chocolates on a sale display and bought a case of them -- three boxes.  The gift set I bought included 2 boxes and when he opened the Date Box to see all that was in it he laughed and told me about his purchase. 

Five boxes of rich-tasting, melt-in-your-mouth truffles have been sitting on a shelf in our bedroom for the past week...starring at me.  I am not easily tempted by sweets because not only do I train too hard to willingly want to kill all the hard work I've done but eating clean has changed my taste buds.  I never did crave chocolate or candy, I craved ice cream, but now my cravings have been redirected towards other things, like bread and lately cheese. 

I don't eat when I'm stressed, if anything I drink more coffee and don't eat.  I eat when I feel bored.  Yesterday I felt bored after returning from Granny Kim's.  Snickers had gone out for the evening and I was home alone with the pups but with the heaters being super low on heat I felt confined to the bedroom.  I did work on my laptop, watched some YouTube nutritional videos, and I even caught up on emails and Indiegogo stuff.  But then I dipped into the chocolates and one dip became two, then three.

Next thing I knew it I had eaten almost a whole box of truffles!!!

Yesterday's truffles lead to today's pain.  I stayed in bed today all day and well into the evening, stuck in a curled up ball and feeling like I was going to die.  The sugar and sweetness of the chocolate was pure overkill and I definitely felt as if my insides were being killed.  The pain was accompanied with me feeling like I was going to vomit.  I just don't eat sweets anymore.  And while when I was younger I used to pop chocolate into my mouth like it wad nothing, these days I try hard to eat clean.  I just feel healthier and stronger when I eat clean and today's crash course in why not to eat "dirty" was rough...real rough!

I'm always telling people I never get sick, injured yes but never sick, but last night I definitely ate my way to sickness -- tummy sickness -- and I may never eat another chocolate for as long as I may live!!!  Just the thought of another truffle makes my tummy rumble with disapproval.