Everyone has something he finds hardest to give up upon while starting a transformation. Ever since I started my fitness program my biggest problem was the sweets. At the initial stage, when the neophyte's eagerness still worked, I found it possible to avoid the sweets for a week, but these days are long gone, and I find the cakes and the chocolates a major impeding factor on my way to success. So, what should I do? If you can't beat them - declare a challenge on them - and then beat them! I therefore declare a challenge on the sweet stuff! Everyone who is as addicted to sugar as I am is welcome to join. There will be no points or exceptions, this is an all or nothing challenge: one piece of chocolate - and you're out! No exceptions for coworker's birthdays, family occasions, mother in law being offended by your ignoring of her cooking skills - nothing!

I will be making up for the lack of sugars with fruit - I don't think I will have problems cutting down on fruit later on, so whoever joins me is welcome to do the same. I will be also drinking lots of water and eating lots of vegetables - it seems to work somewhat to curb that chocolate craving.

The duration of this challenge is one month - that is, it starts immediately, and ends on May 7th.


Who's with me?

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I'm so in! :spaz:

Sweets are my weakness, and for this cut, I've decided to forgo having any. Signing up for this challenge, plus having to post my meals in my journal, will be a great way to keep me motivated. :tu:

Thanks for starting this up, Mitek! :)

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Thanks for starting this up, Mitek! :)

You're most welcome, bballer143! :)

There's no way I could survive this challenge, but I wish y'all luck. :tu:

Im in...im also a sugar addict (1 biscuit leads to a packet of biscuits ...1 bar of choclate leads to 6 bars of choclate:o)..and it has been impeding my progress over the last few months...as i tend to binge on the suagr.




ill update every few days with a pass or fail for each day.

Day 3, hanging in there. How are you guys doing?

Ill join this too. My main sugary intake was not candy, but soda/energy drinks. Would love to go without one of them as it has seemed to slow my progress way down.

Ill join this too. My main sugary intake was not candy, but soda/energy drinks. Would love to go without one of them as it has seemed to slow my progress way down.

The wife of a friend of mine lost 15 lbs in a semester by giving up regular soda. She got back into the habit, but was able to kick it again by simply decreasing the number of cans she drank per day, then per week, until it was nil. If you're having trouble going cold fish, I'd suggest that approach. :gl:

The wife of a friend of mine lost 15 lbs in a semester by giving up regular soda. She got back into the habit, but was able to kick it again by simply decreasing the number of cans she drank per day, then per week, until it was nil. If you're having trouble going cold fish, I'd suggest that approach. :gl:

My main problem is my cheat meals. I go out and order a meal that comes with a drink so I just give in and get a soda. If I drink my tea I'm usually fine. This week I am making whole wheat crust pizzas for the wife and I for the cheat meal. No soda in sight!!

Hello to all,

You know what, I'm in.
Though I'm notoriously bad at keeping any of the food-related challenges.
So much good stuff.
Chocolate should not be that difficult. Right? Is only pieces of nirvana that fills your mouth with exquisite taste.

Cheers and best of luck to all.

Chocolate should not be that difficult. Right? Is only pieces of nirvana that fills your mouth with exquisite taste.

Please, don't! It's hard enough as it is - without such verbal and visual (see your avatar) reminders of what we're trying to give up upon :).

(and from experience, giving up on the sweets entirely is much easier than trying to limit its consumption).

My main problem is my cheat meals. I go out and order a meal that comes with a drink so I just give in and get a soda.

I just ask for mineral water with a slice of lemon. After a while, you just can't drink soda anymore: it's gross.

Hello to all,

You know what, I'm in.
Though I'm notoriously bad at keeping any of the food-related challenges.
So much good stuff.
Chocolate should not be that difficult. Right? Is only pieces of nirvana that fills your mouth with exquisite taste.

Cheers and best of luck to all.

good luck to ya, but you might want to change your Avatar....

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good luck to ya, but you might want to change your Avatar....


No problem. Hope you like the new one better.
I always strive to please.

No problem. Hope you like the new one better.
I always strive to please.

It was a joke...

Monday-Pass
Tuesday-Pass
Wednesday-Pass
Thursday-Pass
Friday- Pass (it's still morning here, but I am not having any sweets today :nono:)

I'll edit in this post what the weekend results were on Sunday. :)

Hope everyone is still going strong! :tu:

Hope everyone is still going strong! :tu:

I do - so far! :whistle:

I do - so far! :whistle:

Still going. ;)
Did my shopping today. No cheat foods. However I still have some frozen pizza in the fridge.... Hmm

OK, I have a confession to make. I've cheated yesterday :cry:. It was just a single Passover cookie (one made of peanuts), not much calories in it or something, still, I'm the one who said 'no exceptions'. So, technically, I'm off the race, but I will go on as if it never happened - if in the end of the month it will have been the only sweet thing I've eaten - it's an unprecedented achievement for me.

OK, I have a confession to make. I've cheated yesterday :cry:.

AHA!!! I've knew it.

That's OK, we forgive you.

I always thought that totally interdicting something will raise the attractiveness of that thing to previously unheard-of values. So, instead of "absolutely no sweets", maybe we should count the cheat sweets and brag on the low number we get at the end of the month.

Cheers

Almost broke down and bought a monster energy yesterday but I didn't. If I can keep tea made in the house its not to bad.

Well, well, it's been a week, now isn't it? So far all I've eaten that can be considered 'sweet' (fruits and low-fat dairy excluded) are two cookies (and for me two cookies in a week is like sniffing a cigarette butt for an avid smoker). So I will continue, and I hope you will as well :).

If I can keep tea made in the house its not to bad.

A good tea is a marvel in itself, when it is not spoiled by sugar or confectionery (which completely kill the taste of tea). You just have to make it right, to serve it right, and to drink it right :).

A good tea is a marvel in itself, when it is not spoiled by sugar or confectionery (which completely kill the taste of tea). You just have to make it right, to serve it right, and to drink it right :).


Thank god I like my tea natural. :gl:

I went golfing this weekend and bought a Monster. It was a low carb version so not near as bad as it could of been. Otherwise, I have been doing good.

So, it's been two weeks now. No chocolates or sweets per se, though I did consume one or two low cal cookie in some of the days. I keep saying that this is nothing compared to what I was used to before, and it's true, however I am somewhat disappointed by my inability to rein in my petty desires in a complete fashion. I will have to be working on this.

3 weeks tomorrow. I'm still holding with no more than a couple of low-cal cookies or a low-cal jam sandwich per day. It seems to be working: my weight, which was plateaued for God knows how long, started dropping, and finally I'm below 90 kg today (the first since I don't know when, if you disregard a bout of flu, that threw me into the 87 a few months ago).

This challenge is over. It seems I'm the only one who took it in the end, and I also didn't stick to it flawlessly (though I did reduce the amount of sweets I consume drastically, so this challenge was good for me, and I'm finally making some progress on my cut, after a rather long plateau). I am going to celebrate it tonight with a nice ice cream :eat: (60 years of Independence of my country is as good a reason as any) and then back to almost-no-sweets for as long as I can stand it :)