If only a cupcake a day could keep the doctor at bay

Supposedly your body craves things it needs. This is why we often crave sweet and salty junk food. Because our bodies are starting to detox from the last time we binged on sweet and salty snacks and we're about do for another fix. Typically you can trick a craving with something similar. People spend years trying to find recipes for healthy versions of items that we so typically crave. Apparently, there's no tricking this craving I have for cupcakes.

A few weeks ago I learned that the House of Cupcakes in Princeton was going to be on the Food Channel show "Cupcake Wars". I love this show. So much in fact, that I flip-flopped between it and my OTHER favorite show just to watch this particular episode. Usually I'll just watch the re-runs as they appear later. Ever since I learned this, I have not been able to get cupcakes off my mind. I've tried eating dark chocolate. I've tried eating ice cream. It doesn't help. Maybe it satisfies me for a short while but the fact of the matter is that if it worked I would not still be thinking about cupcakes two weeks later! I've literally been researching cupcake bakeries in my area just to get one decent one to fill the need. I'd go to a grocery store except they sell them in packs of 6 and - quite frankly - I don't trust myself alone with 6 cupcakes. Because then there will be 0 cupcakes left.

What I need is to detox this crap out of my system. Remember when I was on keto and I was craving all the healthy things that I just wasn't allowed to have (e.g. fruit, oatmeal and anything BUT eggs)? Maybe that's what i have to do. Maybe I won't go on the keto diet again but perhaps just a good ole fashioned nothing-but-fruits-and-veggies binge. I'll be able to start next month when my budget rolls over and I have some grocery money again. Maybe just a solid week of fruits, vegetables, herbal teas and laxatives. That might do the trick.

P.S. I got that job interview! So if I get a new job, maybe I'll have a heftier grocery budget to work with again like I did when I first started losing weight. Having the money to buy said groceries certainly makes a difference.