Day 3: Beware of the craving swap

This post is to say "cut it out" to myself!  Lol.

Today I had a brilliant idea or should I say epic crash of an idea!!!

I started having a very stressful day.  This morning I knew I would crave wine big time by afternoon.  I knew after lunch I would start craving wine because I was edgy, cranky and tired.  While I didn't have alcohol last night, I did take awhile to get to sleep after the events of yesterday.  Finally got those thoughts to shut up and then dogs woke up every few hours.

(These mutts either have the world's largest or the world's smallest bladders and I'm never sure which.  They sneak drinks out of toilets.  I think we need to limit the amount of liquids after 6pm, like little kids, because these nighttime yard-crawls are becoming ridiculous! No wonder I am tired.)

Anyway, I decided I would think of my favorite pink donut with sprinkles whenever I had a wine craving.  I probably haven't had one in 3 years and that was only when I was visiting where I grew up.  Before that I probably hadn't had one in 10 years!  I just love those suckers.  But it's always easy to avoid donuts because the other voice in my head that screams "fat, fat and nothing but fat" usually wins out.

So I decided that every time I started to think of wine I would swap out and think of the pink donut.  By 4pm I was craving a pink donut like nothing else.  But I'm too lazy to go to the store to get one, actually not even sure where I would go, and then I knew it wouldn't be quite like home.

This was like craving wine on a camping trip in the middle of nowhere when you forgot to bring it.  You just have to sit with it.

But the difference is we have sugar here.....and I found it!!  I had a few cups of tea with sweetener in it, one Milano cookie and 9 squares of Cadbury chocolate.

Well, that killed the wine craving.  Hubby just asked if I minded if he had some wine and, believe me, I spoke the truth when I said it wouldn't bother me at all, lol.  I am way too fat feeling to want any and too full of sugar!

I don't think the sugar craving swap is going to be the ideal way to weather this.  It's notable to mention that hubby has always said I am addicted to the sugar in Chardonnay which is why I don't ever crave red wine, hard liquor, beer or even other white wines nearly as much as Chardonnay.

I never really thought about that seriously until today.  Then, I perused blogs, and OH what TIMING!  There were some mentions of sugar and how it links to alcohol addiction.  I am going to lap up all the knowledge I can.  I am more skeptical of giving up sugar in my diet than wine but I'm going to explore it!

I also added a bunch of new blogs to those that I follow.  I'm going to go back and read up on people's early days!  Will be fun and distracting.

To end on a positive note:
1) No more wine craving and it's just 5 o'clock somewhere!!  Heck, I just want a salad and to sit down and read more blogs or magazines.
2) I hit my 10,000 steps by 1pm today just by doing my normal morning walk, things around the house, and a lunch meeting that had a long approach to the restaurant through a mall.

Will try to focus on getting to 15,000 steps, adding some strength training and diet/sugar issues over the next week!

On to Day 4!