NO SUGAR HERE

I am doing a 5 week sugar fast.

Yikes.

Let me put it this way: I love sugar.

However, I've been feeling a conviction to exercise better self-control. I am using the Slim in 6 program, and I have 5 weeks left. So, while I'm completing my exercise routine, I will be abstaining from sugar. My motivation is here:

"I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified." 1 Corinthians 9:27

I don't want to take it out of context, but I feel like Paul was exhorting us to use self-control. How can I tell others to be self controlled if I cannot exercise this myself?