no sugar: day 24, the end

I gave up on the no sugar thing today. I wasn't planning to, but I have been wondering what, if anything, I was getting out of it. I guess what I was hoping for would be that I would stop craving sugary junk food when I'm not hungry. Actually, that has been true. I haven't really felt like I've been missing out on anything, or not feeling satisfied with what I've been eating (although, I do have a stockpile of Cadbury chocolate that my housemate brought back from a trip waiting for me). Styleygeek reported that she appreciated the taste of other foods more. I'm not sure I've noticed that, although I have had some amazingly good pears this week. I was thinking I finally got lucky and found some at the perfect ripeness, but maybe they taste sweeter when not compared to refined sugar. Hopefully, I'll remember that eating lots of sugary junk doesn't result in any lasting pleasure and I'll restrict myself to eating just things I'll actually enjoy. In any case, I'm counting this as a reasonable success. We'll see if I immediately eat all my accumulated chocolate and go on a sugar binge now...
Oh, and why did I stop today, instead of continuing for the final week? My advisor brought in pastries for lab meeting and I couldn't think of a good explanation for not eating them... It's pathetic that, yet again, I couldn't just tell the truth, but after thinking about it, I didn't think I had enough of a reason to justify sticking it out to myself, beyond "I said I would". Maybe that should've been enough, but I'm not going to let it bother me. The azuki bean cream puffs were definitely worth it, anyway.