2 days

I have done a scientific study, and have concluded that when one decides to abstain from eating sugary foods, the first day is easy--swept along by the power of one's convictions. The second day is not bad. Just keep yourself busy and you can resist. The third day is emotional torture. Everything is starting to look like a donut hole, or an m&m. Every piece of chocolate in my house is screaming at me. . (Seriously, a plastic bead just rolled across the floor and I started drooling.) And I promise my mixer just said, "Please use me one last time before you move me. I'd like to bake you a cake." Even busyness cannot deter my mind from thinking about sugar. I think I'm going to lose my mind.

But this is about focusing my attention on what God wants me to hear from Him, not about me being a lunatic. So, as the mantra goes, "Lord, work a miracle in me today!" (This is part of what we say every Sunday before the sermon.)