Weekly Sugar Challenge: Week of August 16, 2010

August 16, 2010 ↓ Comments (0)

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!