I Went to the grocery store on Saturday to get my week’s worth of groceries and couldn’t believe how crabby I felt!  I guess I didn’t sleep well the night before, or maybe I was just irritated with all the “to-do’s” I had on my list that day:  Laundry, dishes, clean the kitchen, clean the garage–oh and grocery shop!  It was the first Saturday in MONTHS that none of the kids had games, or volunteer sign ups, or birthday parties and all I wanted to do was sit around and veg!  I’ve been living the clean eating lifestyle wholeheartedly for the past 15 months and started making the transition 3 years ago, so going to the grocery store is not a big deal for me.  Saturday, however, I lingered in the ice cream section of our grocery store, staring longingly at container upon container of frozen confection.  I told myself that if I took the time, I could probably find some ice cream that could be marginally classified as “clean”.  It’s not that I don’t LOVE ice cream anymore (I totally do), but whereas it used to give me that sugar high I was looking for, I find that I don’t crave it like I used to, or feel good after eating it if I give into that craving.  I literally had to shake myself from a trance:  eyes fixed, mouth half-open, salivary glands working my mouth up into a froth.  Will power and reason win out more often than not these days, but as I went about the rest of my shopping, I thought about how easy it would be to just buy a pint of Rocky Road and bury my irritability in it.  I was able to make it to the register and out the door without giving in, but I thought about it all the way home.  I confessed my wanton lust to my family, to which my 10 year old replied, “Mom!  You can’t eat ice cream, you’re a health and fitness blogger for God’s sake!”  I had to laugh at that one…Yes, I am a health and fitness blogger, but I get cravings, I sometimes eat crap, and some days I think, “Maybe I’m not in the mood to eat clean”, but then I think about how good I feel when I do and how crappy eating processed food now makes me feel and the decision to keep eating clean is pretty simple.