So far, so good

It's been a week. Well, tomorrow will be a week.
A week for what you ask?
Well, one week, 7 days, without meat, bread or sweets.
for my husband and I.
Our church's pastor talked on fasting a couple of weeks ago, and although I was not there (our whole family was home because I was sick with strep throat) my 2 closest friends were, and one of them approached me a couple of days later.
Turns out, she wanted to do this Daniel Fast thing, and she wanted me to do it.
Just that morning, at the start of a new year, I had been praying on my drive to work that I wanted to become closer to the Lord. I feel like 2006 was generally a bad year for me, and the thought that came to my head was that maybe things would've gone better, and maybe I wouldn't view the whole year as bad if I had been closer to the Lord during last year. I was praying that I wanted to spend time with Him, trying to find out what he has for me in the long run, in my family's future, what he has for me in relation to my children, my husband.
Well, I went over to my closest friend's house, R, and she starts talking about this Daniel Fast thing that she's going to start, and she wants us (hubby + me) to start with her and her hubby, along with other members of the church. That this fasting thing is meant to bring you closer to the Lord, meant to reveal what he has for you. Precisely the thing I'd been praying about that morning, without knowing anything about the fast the pastor had been talking about a couple of days before in church.
So that was 2 weeks ago, and one week ago, my husband and I, along with about 65 other folks in our church, began this fast.
We can have no meat, no bread, no sweet foods, no white flour or anything made with it, no sugar or anything containing mass amounts of it, and only limited dairy. Nothing processed or with preservatives. All the fresh or frozen veggies, fresh fruit, beans and nuts you can swallow. Oats and barley and brown rice are fine. White rice is not.
So we're doing it. And about every day one or the other of us (my hubby or I) wants to stop and go to McDonald's for dinner. But we haven't given in. We've stuck to it. I've eaten more leafy green vegetables in the past week than I have in the past 6 months. I've eaten nearly a whole box of raisins all by myself. Before this week, my husband had never tasted a fresh, raw pear. Now he has and he loves it!
So, only 14 more days to go. I miss our nightly sweets in front of the tv something fierce. But, in 2 weeks, we'll be able to have it again. Hopefully, we'll both be a few pounds lighter than when we started. We can't help but be, since we're not eating anything processed!
So off I go. It's 10.30 at night, and I've got a sweet thing happening. Where's that bunch of celery I bought today?