Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of October 4, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge asks you to count (or at least pay attention to and notice) how many times a day you get the opportunity to eat sweets.

Every time you’re at the checkout and there’s an array of candy in front of you, take notice.

When you’re at work and there’s something sweet awaiting you at your desk, take notice.

After dinner when the server brings out the dessert tray and waves it under your nose, take notice.

Of course, you will ideally say no and avoid all of these temptations. That goes without saying.

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of September 27, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge is to avoid all sweetened drinks.

Soda, energy drinks, fruit drink, sugar in coffee, iced teas, sweetened teas, etc.

Avoid them all!

Milk, actual 100% fruit juice (which contain natural sugars), and water are all okay.

If you want to really be challenged, drink nothing but water.

The act of drinking water is not hard to do. It’s the social and personal expectations we have when trying to only drink water that makes it so difficult.

Can you do it? It’s just one week.

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of September 20, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge is the classic ‘avoid all sweets’ for one week challenge.

Halloween is coming and soon after that it’s the holidays and so your ability to not eat sweets is going to be tested.

This week, just avoid everything you know to be sweet.

No sugar in your coffee, no chocolate snacks, etc.

You can do it, it’s just for a week! 

ONE WEEK. Start now.

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of September 13, 2010

This week, if you must eat sweets, eat them only on the odd days. On even dated days avoid all sugars. That’s it! Simple.

Let us know how you do.

Good luck!

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of September 6, 2010

This week’s challenge: Keep track of how much money you spend on sugary junk food.

Whenever you purchase something that contains added sugars, or if it is just plain junk food, write down the amount of money you spent.

Keep a small log on a sheet of paper. Add up candy, cookies, snacks, desserts, and junk food. By the end of the week you should have a tally.

Don’t go out of your way to avoid junk food this week. The purpose is to get a realistic average of how much of your money goes to junk food each week.

The good part is that you can eat whatever you want.

Good luck!

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!

Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 23, 2010

This week’s sugar challenge: drink only 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!

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.

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!