Lent or No Sweets for Kiera, Day One

Okay so let me start off by saying that I am not Catholic.  Most of what I know about the religion has been gleaned from books and tv shows where a character was Catholic.  So I'm sure there's probably more to this whole Lent thing than I'm aware of  but here is my basic understanding of it;  You give up something for 40 days/nights, or you "fast," if you will, from that thing (food item or behavior) until Easter.  This shows your faith and/or willingness to sacrifice for blah, blah, blah... (that's not sacrilegious right?)  Anyway.  One year my mother-in-law gave up speeding for Lent.  I have decided to give up sweets.  Some of you may be laughing right about now as you remember my chocolate giving up fiasco of 2010 .  However I think part of the problem with that experiment was that I was free to indulge my sweet tooth in other ways.  Ways that turned out to be merely gateway drugs to my true chocolate addiction.  So this year since I'm still trying to lose baby weight from William I've decided to incorporate a religious observance into my weight loss strategy.  Because, hey, when has including God in stuff not helped (uh...the Crusades anyone?  Spanish inquisition....Shush no one asked you!) Ahem.   So, yeah I have decided as of today that I am off of sweets until Easter.  That is Sunday, April 8th.

One exception to this plan;  my birthday is in two weeks and I plan to have cake.  Also should we have a friend get together in celebration of my birthday on a day that is not actually my birthday, I will eat cake or whatever then as well.

So "sweets" include; cake, candy, pie, brownies, chocolate, sugary cereals, fruit snacks, pop tarts, chocolate chip carrying granola bars, syrup for pancakes, ice cream, chocolate milk, peeps, etc...

I did have some apple crisp this morning.  Technically that should count, but I'm not counting it 'cuz I just made it yesterday and we accidentally made a 9x13 pans worth rather than the normal 8x8.  If I didn't help eat it it may go to waste.  Also apples are healthy. ;)