Eleanor Roosevelt Told Me, "No Ice Cream"

How can you go through life without eating ice cream? Or pizza? Or even a few months? Since starting my diet in a quest to transform from regular mom to Figure competitor, I've been on a diet of lean meats and veggies for one week, and the only things I can think about are:

Ice Cream
Pizza
Potato Pancake
Funnel Cakes (Went to a local festival Friday.)
Enchiladas

Is it healthy or good to be obsessing over the things I can not have? I doubt it. But being a teacher with the summer off, I have a lot of time to think (about food) and so I have. I'm usually pretty good about motivating myself. I even started a cosmetics company, Ispiri Cosmetics, which puts inspirational quotes on the packages since I believe that strongly in the power of inspirational words. However, when you're at a church picnic with friends, feeding potato pancakes to the kids and watching them eat meatball sandwiches while you drink a protein shake, it's a different story.

I'm trying to remember that Eleanor Roosevelt, my hero, told me to do this. She said "Do the thing you think you can not do." And that is one reason I'm depriving myself since I knew from the start this would be a biggie.

Temptation averted...this time.