Three Days And Counting

If you know Shane, you know that he's a sugar addict. Plain and simple. The boy loves him some sugar. He would probably eat it straight out of a cannister if we let him. In fact, he probably has and we just don't know it!

So a few days ago, Ken bet him that he couldn't go without sugar until Halloween. Ken bet him $10 and Shane took the bet.

The first day home from school, Shane looked at the box of Good and Plenty he had received for a prize at school and wandered out loud whether the $10 was worth it or not. He mulled it over and then decided it wasn't.

He admitted that he almost caved in the laundry room when he saw a pack of fruit chewies sitting unattended.

The first night, we put him to bed and he came back into our room and told Ken and I that he was really sad and depressed and didn't know why.

After a 20 minute discussion, Ken brought up the fact that he's probably having a craving reaction to the lack of sweets and is having sugar withdrawals.

Shane agreed that Ken was probably right.

So yesterday, (day 2), Shane had a tough tennis lesson. Art was really pretty hard on the boys (he takes a group lesson) and was making them do a lot of footwork drills.

After the lesson, Shane said that he had had it with Art and he had no energy because he hadn't had any sweets.

He then told me that he was having mood swings because of no sugar and he's an emotional wreck. He went onto describe in detail the chocolate cake that he could have had at lunch. It had chocolate frosting AND chocolate chips.

So we're on day 3 of no sugar. He's having addiction withdrawal but he's sticking with it. Poor kid. I wonder what he's going to come up with next though. He's been pretty adult like in his self-diagnosis of his addiction and reaction to it.

Hopefully he'll remember this and won't get sucked into the sugar again. Cross your fingers for him that he's strong enough to resist the fruit chewies and will get his $10!