So I thought I was doing a great job avoiding sugar last week and it turns out I was mistaken. I think it started with my Costco run where I thought I was buying food without sugar. I swear that I read all the labels and didn’t see sugar on what I bought. But I should take my reading glasses with me when I shop because two of my purchases have sugar. I ended up eating a chicken pot pie because I already had it in the oven when I reread the label. I wasn’t going to throw perfectly good food away. The second one was a pot roast and thanks to the chicken pot pie incident, I reread the label before I even turned the oven on. That one sort of pissed me off because I don’t think there’s any need for sugar in it. And because I love pot roast, grrr.

The second issue was with bacon. I am, apparently, the only person in the world who didn’t know that bacon had sugar in it. I’ll be honest, I didn’t read the label because I thought it was just meat. What bummed me out more was that I only added bacon to my breakfasts because I thought it would be good to eat a little more food in the morning so I wasn’t so hungry at lunchtime. Anyway, this mistake caused me to turn all the smiley faces on my calendar to frowns. Taking my mistakes into account, this year, I’ve only had one day so far where I haven’t eaten sugar.

I’m not going to beat myself up about this. Even if I didn’t avoid all sugar, I have avoided a lot of sugar. (Except for yesterday…definitely fell of the wagon then) New day, new start. I’ll see if I can finish out the month better.