No Sugar New Year Challenge (Page 25)

I"m only down 3 too....and yesterday I'm SURE is a weight gain. I drove up to the Steelers game, and with it being 25 degrees, I had to have a couple hot chocolates!

I did manage to get in a run though in the snow!

A loss is a loss...celebrate that!  Just don't celebrate it with sugar

LOL...good point. 

Another funny mom story from my blog today (I send my mom the friday abs pics each week), thought I would share:

Another "mom moment".....she calls me this morning...."Everyone at the gym & the trainers love your body!"  Me, "um mom what do you mean EVERYONE?"  She says, "well i was telling my trainer about your picture from this weekend and then he asked to see it.  So i took out the cell phone and showed him.  Then other people came over and wanted to see what we were looking at."  So I say, "So how many people have seen my latest pic at the gym?" Mom says, "Quite a few, at least 10 or more."

oh I'm trying not to celebrate!  you should have seen the food at the tailgate! all things considered, I was happy just to have hot chocolate.  Back on the band wagon...and I was doing so well.

Sheesh, how do people with season tickets do it?  I'd be broke and FAT!

I gave up soda a long time ago, but think of it this way........A 12 ounce can of regular Pepsi contains 41 grams of sugar. Those 41 grams of sugar are equal to to 9.19 teaspoons of refined sugar.  If you were to sit down and add sugar to anything you ate, would you really put in over 9 teaspoons!!?? 

Or read the ingredients on the can, how many of those ingredients can you pronounce?  And do you know what those are doing to your body?  Think of your body as an engine, use the proper fuel and the engine works well. 

Just a few thoughts, I hope they help

Well, pop is not my problem, but I would handle this the same if it were a Pepsi, a Diet Pepsi, or any other "bad for you" food...Now this is just me, but personally, I worry a lot more about the health implications of those kinds of foods than about the calories. For me, it was a breakthrough to be more concerned about how healthy foods are instead of how fattening. For some reason, that clicked for me and makes me more satisfied with good choices! Again, this is just me, but this way of thinking also makes eating right long-term more do-able. I think it takes the focus off of will-power...Hope this helps!

Well, you can always look at it like knowing that the first 2-1/2 hours of your workout every day go to neutralizing your Pepsi.  That might do it for me, if I drank Pepsi instead of Diet Coke, which I don't drink any more because even Diet Coke is banned on the No Sugar Challenge.   But leaving aside the challenge, I would rather consume my workout calories on ice cream than diet soda. 

Excellent day!  Well done - I didn't even manage a run yesterday once I had a look at the snow.

YAY!!!!!!!  I like to think of it as "gross tactic" rather than scare  

Bring lots of fruit to work. I often eat 5-7 servings of fruit a day...less calories than many things and so much better for my body. I tend to bring food with me everywhere I go so I can eat something healthy if I'm hungry out and about.

To the Y I bring fruit and after I shower up after my swim, I eat it...better than waiting until I get home as eating closer to your workout time helps your body restore glycogen.  Planning recovery food is for me like getting all the stuff I need together to do my workout.

My husband recently asked if I'll go back to drinking diet Pepsi after the challenge. I hope not as for Abbies reason's I don't think it is good for me. I only drink water, a bit of tea and sometimes tomato or V8 juice.

That's a really good way to think about it.  

I've been doing ok without soda and diet soda, but I do miss it once in awhile.  We had pizza over the weekend and it was weird to drink water instead of a diet pepsi.  I'm getting more used to not having it, though, so hopefully I won't go back to all the soda I was drinking before. 

I have been drinking unsweetened Iced Tea, and not had much of a problem letting go of soda. Although, I drank to much caffiene yesterday, and started to get crazy and bad feeling toward the end of the day. I have to mix in more water I guess.

Then again I could just be psychotic! I mean I gave up sugar wtf?

timdude - 2009-01-13 4:43 AM I watched Sweet Misery at work this a.m., yes we have cable at work. Anyway that was a real eye opener about nutra sweet. That's some bad stuff. Thanks DC for making that part of the challenge!

Share a bit if you could.

What channel did you see it on?

KathyG - 2009-01-13 9:51 AM

timdude - 2009-01-13 4:43 AM I watched Sweet Misery at work this a.m., yes we have cable at work. Anyway that was a real eye opener about nutra sweet. That's some bad stuff. Thanks DC for making that part of the challenge!

Share a bit if you could.

What channel did you see it on?

Everyone really needs to watch this documentary.  It's here on Google Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-566922170441334340

It is scary to say the least!

Nope.  You don't need to log it

So i can take my Xmas ding off?  Other than that I'm dingless.