Oh how the mighty have fallen...

I ate a brownie.

At first the guilt was consuming, but this is my defence:

I was offered a cherry cheesecake brownie from the director of the show I am currently in. She has been a finalist on MasterChef so I knew it would be amazing. I asked her for the recipe and she revealed that she had made it up, the recipe was not re creatable so this was a once in a lifetime brownie. I also really didn't want to reject a treat from my director! I was terrified of offending her!

So yes. I ate a brownie.

However:

In the past I would have held a 'well it's over now' attitude and I would have gorged on treats. Not this time. I simply got straight back on the horse and continued with my challenge. True, I won't have really completed it for a full thirty days in a row, but when I think about all of the reasons I wanted to do this challenge in the first place, the brownie doesn't seem like such a big deal.

Dramatically cut added sugar out of my diet - check
Feel healthier for it - check
Drop my snacking habits - check

That last point is the most important, and they say it takes thirty days to make or break a habit, so that is why I wanted to do this for thirty days. But despite my slip up I think I am still achieving this. At first, my instant craving after lunch and dinner was to eat a sugary snack. Now, after just ten days, I am finding that I either crave nothing at all, or a bit of fruit. I genuinely don't fancy chocolate all that much. I thought the brownie would ruin this, but actually because it was a 'treat' rather than one of my 'habit foods', it didn't affect me too much. It was an out-of-the-ordinary snack. I think if I'd had a chocolate bar from the vending machine, that would have been much more detrimental to my progress, as I would have gone straight back into my habits. But because the brownie was something I would have very rarely anyway, that didn't happen.

One brownie in ten days - still an improvement on my old habits.

So I'm still feeling pretty positive and won't be punishing myself too much over it. There is one more inevitable slip up to come - a communal cast meal to which my director will be bringing pulled pork! Short of not going to the meal at all (which again is an opportunity I won't get again in this lifetime) there is really no way for me to avoid sugar on that occasion. I'm not missing the meal because that's craziness, so alas I shall have to fall short on this challenge. But like I said, I'm getting what I want from it and that's the most important thing!

Onwards and Upwards! Twenty days to go.