The trixie/matchman CUT THE CRAP challenge (Page 2)

Awesome. Then I can have a matching set

I'll do it.  Was having lots of success with this recently, and then I sort of lost the motivation once my training hours started to creep up.  It's kind of shocking how much food has refined sugar (of the -ose variety in the ingredient lists)

To the CLIF bar eater - you could sub Larabars and be ok.

My take is that its up to you whether you decide something's processed or not. Now, there are absolutes but I can tell you that I don't consider my Nature's Oven 100% Whole Wheat bread to be processed food. The stupid Nabisco 100 Calorie Snack Packs? Absolutely. Stuff sweetened with high fructose corn syrup? Yes! So, police yourself but if you really need a ruling, post it here and the Gods of CrapCutting will either plant kisses on your cherubic cheeks or rain blows upon your cheating head.

My focus for the next 37 days, 16 hours and 5 minutes until the start of Grandma's Marathon will be to cut out the sweets and fried foods but also avoid the processed junk, too. Good thing is that my two biggest weaknesses are sweets (ICE CREAM!!!) and fried stuff (WINGS!!!).

Good luck everybody!

Tom

..... as I sit here eating my jellybeans I've been craving for days.....

Guess this challenge isn't for me

UGH!!!  I really want to do it... but, but, okay, I put the jellybeans in my desk...

.... where's memory loss when you need it?

trixie - 2008-05-14 10:03 PM Ok, day one no crap is done. I don't feel any different.....

hmmm, if you feel different after day 5, I may join in

wow, if you have to count that as your bad day - I now know that there is no way I could make it in this challenge - lol! 

What the hell is tomato pie??  I'm thinking if you can eat that, it's not a cheat day 

 Is it Whole wheat, Fred???

Sweet, nice simple challenge premise that's SO HARD to follow...  Or maybe that's just b/c I suck and love fried food and sweets!  Too bad I bought a big- canister of jelly bellys at Costco the other day to put on my desk "for other people" to eat.  Haha...uhhh.  I've been trying to cut out the crap too, but lately, it's hard for me to eat much at one time, so I'm just happy to get calories in--but I will modify this for the prego woman, and try to cut out unneccessary crap.  (Like desserts and sugars and chosing carbs over veggies first--since I have a limited stomach capacity, I need to focus on getting good nutrition in there FIRST and then if there's any room left over, allowing a treat now and again.)

So, I'm in.  Kinda. 

I think I did OK today. I only ate one tiny dove dark chocolate rasberry caramel...what i really wanted was the fudge covered grahams, but they all survived.  This will be easier when I can get to the store to replenish supplies.

I'm amazed at how much the body is CRAVING sugar though. I drank a lot of Lite Chocolate Silk today though, trying to manage that craving.

This is a week without coffee too---think sugar is hard? Try stopping the caffeine cold turkey. I think I have a headache.

p.s. what fun is training unless one can eat whatever he/she wants?

p.p.s. that's a silly question though, 'cause I know that I feel better and train better when I eat right.