I Scream, You Scream, No One Scream For Ice Cream

For those of you who know me personally, you know that am an ICE CREAM FIEND. I'm sure there has been a day in my life when I ate nothing but ice cream. The days I've had ice cream for breakfast are well beyond countable. Over the past few years, I've done a pretty good job at limiting it and had almost exclusively switched to frozen yogurt-ice cream hybrid. Dreyer's (Or Edy's for those of you in the eastern US) has a line called Yogurt Blends and their Vanilla flavor is so creamy and so yummy that I don't even notice that it's easily the most boring flavor in the history of ice cream. **Interesting tidbit: Edy, Dreyer's partner, invented Rocky Road ice cream and one of their employees invented Cookies 'n' Cream. There's a reason this is my favorite brand of ice cream.**

So given my affinity for ice cream, it's really surprising that I honestly cannot remember the last time I had any. I think it might have been sometime before Christmas. That's nearly a month. A MONTH! That's a long time for me to go without ice cream. This little fact presented itself to me as I was on my way to the ice cream aisle to grab some Vanilla Yogurt Blends and almost immediately a challenge sprang to mind and my feet chartered a new course. If I could make it a whole month without ice cream and not even notice it, then I could go for a WHOLE YEAR! I know, I know... WHOA. But I couldn't help it. A challenge is a challenge, even if it does come from some hidden corner of my psyche and is presented to myself. I can't turn it down. I think it's the grown-up extension of the childish "double dare."

So here I go, one whole year without ice cream! (Or frozen yogurt - it's a gateway drug.) At least I already have 12 days down! 344 more to go - darn you leap year! Keep me in mind in June when I'll have to forego my traditional Dairy Queen ice cream cake which has stuck by me (and probably on me!) for many years.

How about you? What does your subconscious challenge you to give up this year in order to emerge a new and healthier you?