Sugar fast

I've recently decided to do a sugar fast. Sugar consumes my life! I have a serious addiction- and it's not exactly helping my mood, appetite, or waist line. So it gone with sugar...at least until Thanksgiving, I'm not giving up pie! So it's 3 weeks with no sugar, and then all of December to be a holiday treat glutton!

The thing to keep in mind is that sugar isn't the enemy- overuse and imbalance are the enemies. Normally sugar not too big of a deal for me because I don't eat a lot of processed food- but it's been tough this fall. Everywhere I go there is sugar- work, school, church- all of the places I go, people are shoving free pie and candy in my face. FREE PIE!

Sugar here, sugar there- no big deal, right? Wrong, pretty soon sugar here and sugar there becomes sugar everywhere! So the point is, I'm taking a break, no sugar until my mom's homemade Thanksgiving pies!
So, I've not had sugar for 4 days now...and guess what, I have less insane food cravings, vegetables and fruit taste better, I'm drinking more water, and I've shed 5 pounds! Intense. I guess sugar is good, but it doesn't taste as good as I feel. Now...I'm not saying, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," because I hate that saying! Skinny doesn't make you happy, healthy makes you happy- and those are two different things. I don't want a body made of thin, or air, or thin air...I want a body made of fruit, veggies, whole grains, water, and hummus!

Speaking of fasts...I've been thinking. There is something else I need to fast from, call it an early lent X2 this year- I'm fasting from judging others (or at least I'm going to try,  it's a lot easier to fast from physical vices, rather than mental, spiritual, or emotional vices).

Lately I keep telling myself that it's easy to pick people apart when I don't know them. I'd say to myself, "It's one thing to gossip about people you know; it doesn't matter if I judge people I don't know." But the truth is, it's been eating me from the inside out. It's no longer a sin of omission, but rather commission, when you do something and feel the pricks of the spirit telling you it's wrong- but you keep doing it anyway. There's no way around it, it's wrong. So, I'm cutting it out of my life the best I can.
Each time I think something negative about someone, especially based on appearance, I should think of the good things I can see, and the good things I can imagine. They aren't fictional characters that i can analyze and pick apart, people are people- and I should love them. Considering how often my initial perceptions of people are wrong- you'd think I'd learn not to judge people on appearance...but this is life, and I wont be perfect when I wake up in the morning. I just have to be grateful I wake up at all, and love people.
Spurring my desire to purge myself of unrighteous judgments, was President Thomas S. Monson's talk from the last General Relief Society  Meeting:  

http://new.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/charity-never-faileth?lang=eng

Everything is about balance, but sometimes- we just have to rid what we've made vice temporarily, and sometimes we must rid it completely. Wish me luck, or better yet, love me, and love everyone.