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Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 30, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: Spy on someone and track how much sugar they eat. Don’t tell them.

Watch your kids, your spouse, your boss, your employee, your partner, your enemy, your mother, your father, you get it.

Notice how much junk food they eat. Do they eat a lot? Do you eat like them? Are you influenced by their diet? Are they influenced by yours?

That’s it. Keep your eye on someone close to you and see what you notice.

Good luck!

Posted on Aug 30, 2010 : Comments: (0)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 23, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: drink only water.

glass-of-water

That’s it. No coffee. No tea. No soda. No milk. No fruit juice. No vitamin water. Nothing but pure water.

Water. That’s it.

From now until the next sugar challenge which starts next Monday, August 30th.

One week with nothing but water. You’ll be surprised at the revelations you will have if you follow this challenge.

Good luck!

Posted on Aug 23, 2010 : Comments: (0)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 16, 2010

This week’s challenge: every time you eat sweets, take a walk equal to the amount of grams of sugar you consumed.

label If you ate one serving size of cookies, look at the package and see how many grams of sugar those few cookies contain. Chances are they contain about 8 to 12 grams of sugar. That would mean an 8 - 12 minute walk.

If you ate the whole box of cookies, you have to multiply the serving size times the amount of servings in each package. This will give the amount of sugar in grams that you ate and the appropriate amount of minutes to walk.

For example, the label to the left shows that there are 18 grams of sugar per serving. It says that there are 15 servings per container. If you ate the whole box, then you must multiply 18 (grams of sugar) x 15 (servings). The total amount of sugars would be 270 grams of sugar. That’s a lot of sugar! And that’s how long of a walk you’d do in exchange for eating that much sugar during this week’s challenge.

Hopefully you’ll be inspired to eat less grams of sugar. Hopefully you’ll keep your word to yourself if you decide to accept this week’s challenge.

Good luck!

Posted on Aug 16, 2010 : Comments: (0)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 9, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: check your meat.

Summertime means lots of people cook food on the grill. If you are a meat eater then check the ingredients on the meat you’re eating. You will be surprised to find that lots of meats come packaged with added sugars.

Bacon contains sugar. Hot dogs contain sugar. Barbecue sauce contains sugar. As always, keep an eye out for High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Check the packaging and see what’s in there. Also check the packaging of the condiments that you add to your meat. If there’s sugar in there, avoid it!

If you are vegetarian, check the additives inside the veggie burgers and vegetarian meat substitutes you consume (if any). If there’s added sugars, avoid!

Good luck.

Posted on Aug 09, 2010 : Comments: (0)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 2, 2010

This week, avoid sweets all week long and wait until Sunday to eat any sugary stuff. If you are tempted, know that you can eat whatever you want on Sunday. It’s that simple!

If you’re not certain if the food you want to eat qualifies as a “sweet,” then avoid it.

Sunday is just a few days away. Start now!

Good luck.

Posted on Aug 02, 2010 : Comments: (7)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of July 19, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: only eat sweets if you’re with three or more people.

Let’s say you’re going to lunch at work and only two others join you, then no sweets for you!

If you’re to to dinner with one other person, no sweets for you!

If you’re at a party with thirty other people, go for it.

If you’re alone and it’s ten o’clock at night, no sweets for you!

If you’re in a movie theater with three friends, go for it.

If you’re in a movie theater filled with people but you went there alone, no sweets for you!

Posted on Jul 19, 2010 : Comments: (0)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of July 12, 2010

This week’s challenge requires you to partner with someone—preferably someone who is close to you like a spouse, partner or coworker.

The challenge: make a bet with someone and go the week without eating sugar. Whoever eats sugar loses the bet.

Make sure the consequences of the bet are not enjoyable. So, if you’re betting with your spouse, the loser should not give the winner a massage. The loser should lose money, have to run a mile, or do something that is unpleasant in every regard.

If you don’t have someone to bet with (they’re not into it, nobody wants to play, whatever) then bet yourself. We’ve all played games like this before. We say stuff like, “If this _______ happens I promise I’ll __________.” Bet yourself that you can make it a whole week without sweets. And if you don’t, publicly admit your shame, run a mile, give $100 to a stranger, volunteer for jury duty or some such craziness.

Posted on Jul 12, 2010 : Comments: (0)

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of July 5, 2010

I hope you had a happy 4th of July weekend! How did you do with last week’s sugar challenge?

This week’s sugar challenge is to only eat one sweet thing per day and only after lunch. It could be a candy bar or an ice cream sundae, but only have one and only after lunch. After lunch implies that you ate something unsweetened for lunch. Your sweet thing is dessert to a healthy lunch.

Avoid sweets the rest of the day and night. Don’t put sugar in your coffee. Do not consume sweetened drinks (no soda, no diet soda) and stay away from sugary snacks beyond your once-a-day lunchtime dessert.

Stick it out for the entire week!

Posted on Jul 05, 2010 : Comments: (0)

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