21 Day No Junk Food Challenge

CurlyCanadian

I finished this on Friday, only cheating once. It was a lot easier then I thought, as long as I didn't have chips (my weakness) in the house and brought my lunch & snacks to work.

I liked having something to keep myself accountable to, and it went by way faster then I thought it would. I ate a lot of crap this weekend, and found cravings were really bad Monday, much better by Tuesday.

I started again on Monday, but may just do Mon - Fri this time, we'll see how it goes

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curlypearl

Good luck CC!

sixelamy

This sounds awesome, do you mind if I join you? I need to do this so bad. If I cut those things out, I'd lose my extra weight in no time. lol

Cheating only once is amazing. Good luck with the next one, hopefully you don't cheat at all!

spiderlashes5000

This is insanity. Insanity, I tell you! :protest:

(Half of these are diet staples for me :sad:)

CurlyCanadian

sixelamy wrote: »

This sounds awesome, do you mind if I join you? I need to do this so bad. If I cut those things out, I'd lose my extra weight in no time. lol

Cheating only once is amazing. Good luck with the next one, hopefully you don't cheat at all!

Of course!!! I started the thread because Starmie started yesturday or today (I'm never sure with her time change!) and figured it would be better in one place then us taking over other posts.

The more the merrier!

CurlyCanadian

spiderlashes5000 wrote: »

This is insanity. Insanity, I tell you! :protest:

(Half of these are diet staples for me :sad:)

I think that's why it was pretty easy. Except for the chips & take out (I don't eat meat, so there is already limited take out I do have), I don't eat most of the stuff anyways.

jeepcurlygurl

I love things like this. Mostly because I like lists and keeping track of things, etc. I could easily do this, except for giving up my 2 or 3 diet cokes (and rum) a week. And I don't consider peanut butter a junk food. But I could substitute almost butter in my protein drinks. Just not sure about giving up pop. I might give it a go starting Feb 1.

CurlyCanadian

One of the girls at work is doing it, she's still drinking her morning diet coke. She says if she gave up everything shed just a be a miserable *****

jeepcurlygurl

I'm too anal to break the rules so I will give up Coke for 3 weeks. Yikes. I will have to stock up on low sugar orange juice to mix with my rum. : ) I'm in!

sixelamy

jeepcurlygurl wrote: »

And I don't consider peanut butter a junk food.

My fiancé is going to do this with me and we were talking about this at lunch today. We get the natural peanut butter that is nothing but unsalted peanuts at the health food store that we freshly ground ourselves in their machine. I don't see anything wrong with it. I think the peanut butter listed here is like the Jif or some bottled peanut butters with added sugar and unnecessary goodies. We aren't going to exclude pb - my main breakfast is a banana w/ some peanut butter - it's good protein and I don't get enough in my diet because I don't each much meat.

sixelamy

CurlyCanadian wrote: »

sixelamy wrote: »

This sounds awesome, do you mind if I join you? I need to do this so bad. If I cut those things out, I'd lose my extra weight in no time. lol

Cheating only once is amazing. Good luck with the next one, hopefully you don't cheat at all!

Of course!!! I started the thread because Starmie started yesturday or today (I'm never sure with her time change!) and figured it would be better in one place then us taking over other posts.

The more the merrier!

Sweeet! Thanks for posting this, I was thinking last night after eating about 5 cookies that I really need to cut out the junks. I really need to lose weight for my wedding in June so I can comfortably fit into my dress. :eek: My main eating is fine, it's just the junky food that needs cleaning up.

ETA: I will probably be starting next week as well - after we get paid and go shopping.

CurlyCanadian

I agree about the peanut butter, I think they mean the jarred sugary stuff.

CurlyCanadian

sixelamy wrote: »

CurlyCanadian wrote: »

sixelamy wrote: »

This sounds awesome, do you mind if I join you? I need to do this so bad. If I cut those things out, I'd lose my extra weight in no time. lol

Cheating only once is amazing. Good luck with the next one, hopefully you don't cheat at all!

Of course!!! I started the thread because Starmie started yesturday or today (I'm never sure with her time change!) and figured it would be better in one place then us taking over other posts.

The more the merrier!

Sweeet! Thanks for posting this, I was thinking last night after eating about 5 cookies that I really need to cut out the junks. I really need to lose weight for my wedding in June so I can comfortably fit into my dress. :eek: My main eating is fine, it's just the junky food that needs cleaning up.

ETA: I will probably be starting next week as well - after we get paid and go shopping.

I might start clean Monday and try again for the full three weeks. I know Saturday & Sunday are gonna be no goes this weekend!

sixelamy

I told my fiance that we will start after we (read: I) eat all our cookies. lol

Starmie

I waited until Wednesday to start as I'd made a pavlova for Australia Day and wanted to eat it!
I rarely have pop or ice-cream and can't stand pb so that's a start.

Starmie

Went to Ikea today and very pleased with myself that I didn't buy either a Dime bar or a doughnut!

Starmie

And I come to work tonight, sit down and what's on the desk in front of me? Mini Dime bars. My willpower's getting a work-out!

sixelamy

So I guess I've been doing this since Saturday. Once I told myself I would, I've been fighting off the urge to buy cookies. I haven't given in.. yet!

jeepcurlygurl

I'm on Day 2. No Coke. No Diet Coke. All I can think about is Coke. And I really don't drink it all that much. Maybe 3-4 a week. I used to drink more than that every day but haven't done that in years. But once you know you can't have something, it's all you want. Cokecokecokecokecoke! : )

curlypearl

What about dark chocolate? The media is saying it's good for you (antioxidants for your heart). Of course they change their minds every nanosecond.

sixelamy

curlypearl wrote: »

What about dark chocolate? The media is saying it's good for you (antioxidants for your heart). Of course they change their minds every nanosecond.

You'd have to get real pure dark chocolate, most dark chocolates still have the added crap in it. So you'd have to read labels. I don't think I know anyone who would make pure dark chocolate a junk food, it's so bitter.

frau

OMG! What in the world would I eat?
I just bought 2 pints of Ben and Jerry's, a jar of JIF peanut butter, I eat cookies everyday with my coffee...
Well, at least wine isn't on the list, lol!

I'm going to do the challenge with you....uh, after I eat the ice cream and peanut butter up. Ha!
Next Sunday, I'm in!!

jeepcurlygurl

Some of these 21 day challenges say No Booze. I ignored all of those and decided this one is better. haha.

CurlyCanadian

jeepcurlygurl wrote: »

Some of these 21 day challenges say No Booze. I ignored all of those and decided this one is better. haha.

Haha!!! Totally the reason I'm doing this one!

frau

what's a spread?
is butter a spread?
is jelly a spread?
is cheese a spread????

jeepcurlygurl

^ I think they are talking about nutella and such.

sixelamy

I interpret a lot of this vague junk food stuff (like "spreads") to be things you overindulge in. I still put mayo on my sandwiches, but I won't dip my chicken nuggets in it.

Starmie

I've not been having jam or lemon curd, to me they're unhealthy spreads. I'm missing them, especially since I just made seven jars of plum jam.

Starmie

Well, that was disappointing. I know this isn't a weight loss challenge but I really thought that after a week of eating no crap I might have lost a little bit of weight. Got on the scales this morning and they said exactly the same thing as they said last week before I started. Hmmph.
On the bright side I suppose this might mean that I don't eat as much rubbish as I thought I did.

sixelamy

Starmie - I am finding with my scale, that it's a week behind. So anything I did during X week, won't show up until the end of the next week. It's stupid

I've been having salads again, yay for me. I've also had more energy, which is a great plus. It seems when I eat my veggies, I don't crave the junk.

Starmie

Now you mention it I've noticed that in the past (with the scales seeming to need to catch up). Fingers crossed!
I've been eating a fair bit of fruit so that's helped with my sweet fix. Thankfully it's summer so there's plenty of different stuff around.