Sweet Nothings

I have a serious problem here, folks.  It's called candy.  Candy, candy, candy.  Sugary delightfulness that comes in so many forms and surrounds me wherever I am.  And conspires against my efforts to lose weight.

At this moment (with a trip to DC for a wedding this weekend, followed by Thanksgiving next week), I'm not actually on any "diet" or trying to make a big "lifestyle change"  (sidethought: how cliche have those phrases become?).  But I'm still trying to be relatively healthy.  Oatmeal for breakfast, grapefruit for lunch, yogurt and popcorn as snacks, (homemade) turkey chili for dinner... (I know, I'm missing vegetables).  And then the candy.  Candy can replace a meal (seriously, laffy taffy is far more delicious than oatmeal), candy can replace a snack (and those candy cane hershey kisses - definitely my achilles heel, though not quite as dangerous as the pumpkin spice ones that were floating around before Halloween).

I know that the only way to break this addiction is to go cold turkey.  And not just on candy but on added sugar anywhere.  And it will take a couple of weeks for the changes to kick in and make the cravings stop.  But how the hell am I supposed to do that with Thanksgiving and then Christmas right around the corner?  Tis the season for cookies and candy canes and all sorts of yumminess that we only indulge in once a year.  Yumminess that is going to make me really happy while I'm eating it, and then really unhappy when I'm done.  I also know that I need to break this cycle.  I'm not going to lose weight this way, I'm not building healthy habits this way, and eating too much sugar (or chocolate) triggers my migraines.

To be honest, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to deal with this.  I would like to make changes now (more realistically Monday) but it seems like that is just setting myself up for failure by Thursday.  So maybe I start next Friday.  That's probably not a bad idea - there's less candy around when I'm not at work.  And hopefully I can limit the Christmas treats to a couple of special days.

I know what I don't want to do.  I don't want to wait for January 1 to come around so that I can make a resolution to kick sugar, to lose weight, to get healthy, etc.  Resolutions are crap, IMHO.  When you want to change your life, you don't "resolve" to do it, you just do it.

Do you think that Nike knows how hard it is to just do it?