The trixie/matchman CUT THE CRAP challenge (Page 6)

My headache seems to be done, too.  Still haven't had any diet coke or diet pepsi!!  And crap free this week!

I just cant give up coffee. Its not fair  to my kids I'm going to try and get by one cup of coffee per, the first cup is always the best anyways.  I won't make a full pot anymore, so I'm not tempted to drink it all.

My eating has been better except for the last week of school, too many gifts of chocolate, cake & cookies but I left it all there, didnt bring the leftovers home!

Keep up the good work guys!

I had my cheat meal last night - a cheeseburger and a shake.  I felt so sick last night!  After not having any grease all week, I really couldn't handle it.  Guess it's good encouragement to keep doing it and it'll help me avoid the bad food in the future.

I also managed to resist the soda during my cheat meal last night.  I don't even really miss it anymore.   

I'm good. How are you guys?  The nutritionist that I work with (read: work along side, he is not my nutritionist) told me to try Ezekiel bread.  Seems it's sooper healthy. Comes from sprouted grains so it jam packed full of tasty goodness. Well....goodness anyway.

So, today's topic. EZEKIEL bread.

Discuss. 

Great, now you've got the song Ezekiel Saw The Wheel in my head. Thanks.

I've never eaten Ezekiel bread but I know that my Natural Ovens 100% Whole Grain kicks . Occasionally, I'll get some of the stuff from French Meadow Bakery which is here in Minneapolis and its all healthy and stuff with sprouted whole grainy goodness. They have some with weed in it, too. OK its hemp but its fun to think about eating weed bread.

Hey I just saw this. Can I join late? Specifically for me, I want to cut out the sugar. I don't eat much in the way of fried food. So, that's not a huge deal. And, we already banned HFCS in my house.

Of course, tomorrow and Saturday I'm going to be on the road. So, I really want to start for real on Sunday. (Although I'll try to behave until then.)

Oh, and I have recipes for whole wheat/no refined sugar cookies, if anyone wants one. 

I started yesterday. So far, so good. Mostly, for me, it's a sugar dealio. Drank my decaf coffee black this morning. Sort of takes some of the fun out of it.

For food I've had kashi go lean cereal with rice milk, and about 1.5 oz of raw power mix (raw almonds, sunflower seeds and raisins).

I picked up a copy of "Clean Eating" magazine. It had some good ideas, though how they can really consider cream of crap soup "clean" is beyond me. 

I KNOW this isn't what you want to hear... but, here's the deal. I'm pretty sure that something about Diet Coke is highly addictive. I'm guessing it's the nutrasweet. When I wanted to get pregnant, I kicked all artificial sweeteners & caffeine. Guess which was harder? It was A YEAR before I really felt like I didn't crave Diet Coke. That was scary enough that I've never gone back. Artificial sweeteners are banned from my house and have been for about 6 years.

Here's what helped - drink a fizzy water - you know, the carbonated, unsweetened, mineral water, sometimes flavored by some fruit flavoring? Around here we drink Klarbrunn or La Croix. Seems like there are some parts of the states that don't know what you mean when you say mineral water or fizzy water. There's nothing scary in there unless you think C02 is scary.

As a side note, has anyone noticed how many supposedly healthy athlete-marketed products have artificial sweeteners? They're in all those "drop this tablet in a bottle" electrolytes, and in lots of the prefab drinks and such. Ick! 

Water is your best choice, but otherwise.... 

Mineral Water (aka fizzy water)
Decaf/Herbal Tea (I would even think honey is okay in there.)
100% juice (no juice "drinks"
Black coffee (decaf, if you're not doing caffeine with this)
Milk
Kefir
Lassi (kind of like Kefir - but basically yogurt and water, whereas kefir is milk cultured with different cultures so it doesn't set as firmly)
Chicory
Cider

Enough choices, muchacha? 

Hey Fred, I'm in the same boat.  Seems the options are limited.  I have tried seltzer and unsweetened cranberry juice, but it doesn't seem to satisfy my thirst.  Lemon Juice in water got old quick too.

 I blew it Sunday.  On the car ride home from a bike tour, I was falling asleep at the wheel..... not good!  Wife was out cold and we had been up since 4:30am.  I caved and had most of a can of Diet Coke.  Woke me up, but wasn't happy about drinking it.  Then had pizza, there it is again and some more DC at a family gathering that evening.

 I'm guessing pizza is not all that bad, if the sugar is kept out of the sauce and dough.