The 21 Day Sugar Detox and Why I'm Doing It

So I'm one of those people that is ADDICTED to dieting.. as strange as that sounds. I love trying new diets, new cleanses, new foods, new workouts and all that jazz. Now I'm not the smallest or the most fit person in the world, nor am I perfect when it comes to my eating habits. In fact, I am pretty terrible at even sticking to diets because I just want to give up and eat a cookie.
   As of now, I have gotten to the point where I can't really loose any weight anymore with the exercise that I'm doing. I have been training for my second half marathon for a while now, and if you are a runner you might know, that you get to the point where your body is just used to long runs and you no longer see the scale budging like you did when you first started.
  Now, as for the many different diets I have tried over the years. I have done weight watchers, low carb, paleo, calorie counting, juice cleanse, diet pills, low fat, pretty much everything. About a year ago I decided to try Paleo after hearing wonderful things about it. I found it really easy to stick to and ended up loosing about 7 lbs before my dad came in town and I cheated and got sushi one night, then had bread with dinner the next, and ever since then..... Its been hard to go back. Not to mention the holidays just ended and in between Thanksgiving and New Years I'm pretty sure I ate everything that was put in front of me without even thinking about it. I'm terrified to weigh my self! I even started noticing that my body seemed to be mad at me. My skin was acting up, I was extremely tired, and I just felt overall gross.
  When it comes to my eating, I notice that I am terribly addicted to sugar. A meal is not over until I have something sweet to finish it of. So after the holidays I started looking into different cleanses. I have tried the juice cleanse, and only did it for one day, and oh my gosh, no. I love food. I love juice. But come on, only juice for 1-7 days... I was starving! I cheated I think within a few hours of starting. No Will Power. So I found the 21 Day Sugar Detox and saw that it had rave reviews. I had purchased Practical Paleo last year and 21 Day Sugar Detox just so happens to be written by the same author and actually has a lot of similar recipes.
  You start out reading the introduction and then get into why the body gets addicted to sugar and carbohydrates and what health problems can come from those addictions. The book also includes 3 different levels of the detox to choose from and you actually take a 5 question quiz to figure out which level to go with. When I took the quiz I was either a level 1 or a level 2, so I decided to go with the basic level 1. The best part is that the book includes a day by day, meal by meal calender for the entire 21 days. You can even go balancedbites.com/21dsd to print out a shopping list for each week.
  The book tells you to allow 7 days to "prepare" for the challenge, which includes stocking your pantry and shopping. I was originally going to start tomorrow, January 12th, but there was a specific part that said that if you were training for any event in which you will be active for over an hour, then to wait till after the event. It just so happens that my half marathon is next Sunday the 19th, so I decided to wait to start. That way I can load up on all the yummy starchy carbs that I want and eat my Gu on race day without feeling like I've messed up my detox.
   Now that I have bored you long enough with my introduction, Welcome to my 21 Day Sugar Detox. By the way, I figured sense I tend to suck at sticking to any diet for very long, if I know I have to report back to a blog every day about my progress, I might actually stick to it this time! Thanks for reading!