Heading into week two, sidelined by injuries

Alice in Wonderland fell down a rabbit hole into a world of  strange imaginings...my fall into a rabbit hole wasn't filled with as many imaginings as I would have liked...maybe I need more 'sugar free' life in order to lose enough weight to fit into the rabbit hole, so for now, the rabbit hole has only caused a twisted knee...and there you have it people...sidelined for two days...no walking allowed.  This depresses me because I was looking forward to my nightly walk...despite the feeling that someone is ramming metal poles directly down the length of my shin bones, from the inside. But it's not all doom and gloom.

Today is Day One of Week Two of no sugar and I am proud to say I am not finding it too difficult so far. Here's my practical upshot.

Reflections:

• I had a constant, low-grade headache all week last week, but it's hard to tell if this was caused by sugar or the stress of my school kids (I am a year 3/4 teacher and have a particularly difficult class)
• I was quite short tempered last week, but again, not sure if that was sugar or the stress of my class, or the fact the my own children can't seem to go without arguing for five minutes at a time
• Lunch boxes were hard to fill last week without fruit and muesli bars but this week we have carrots and cucumbers and hommus.
• I have lost 3 kilos.
• We survived the first birthday in our no sugar world. Pizza for lunch, candles in the happy faced pancakes served with a few raspberries, sans maple syrup, no cake.
• N (11yo) and G (13yo) are totally on board (Nathan having forgone cordial and lollies and chocolate at the break during his select entry testing and Graeme having declined to eat the dessert he cooked in his cooking class at school, instead opting for extra veggies)
• O is sick and tired of this crap. ANd here I relay our conversation on Friday after school

"O, we're going to meet Sonya at the Plaza, you can have a Macdonald's snack if you like."
"Can I have ice cream?"
"Sorry Bud, ice cream is full of sugar."
"Oh. Can I have a flurry?"
"Sorry Bud, that's ice cream too, but you can have nuggets and chips and a Coke Zero."
"Ok, thanks Mum."
Fast forward an hour or so and we are in the Reject Shop buying kitty litter. O picks up a bag of those pressed apricot fruit bars and looks at me expectantly. He sees the look on my face and in his best sarcastic voice, complete with rolling eyes and all the attitude a 7-year old can muster says "Oh, let me guess, too much sugar. This sugar thing is so stupid, I'm sick of it" and then he throws the apricot bars back onto their display and stomps out to the benches outside the store.

Challenges last week were:

• Filling the lunch boxes
• Not ordering my favourite Chinese food along with the Lemon iced tea I would normally drink with it
• Getting through the sugar free birthday party.

Onward and upward as they say. This will be a particularly challenging time for me because we are in report writing phase at school and that's always stressful for all teachers, especially at a school where they insist on individualised report cards for every single student.

Goals for this week include:

• Do not eat sugar (so far so good, though I did have a tea with Equal tonight)
• Go to bed by 10.30 (failed as of Monday/today)
• Do one hour of school work each night (failed tonight)
• DO Yoga each night (failed tonight as well)
• Go for a walk every night (failed tonight)
• Stop writing 'failed tonight' as of tomorrow (except on the walking thing...doctor's orders)