No junk food challenge!
ilovemycoffee19
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Have anyone tried No junk food challenge? I will give it a try till Valentines day! 
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What's considered junk food?0
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I live that lifestyle. At times I'll eat white bread but I make it.
Have fun!0 -
That's great!
thanks, hope i will make it! 0 -
Alright, I'll do it with you.
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ilovemycoffee19 wrote: »This foods!
how is peanut butter 'junk food'????0 -
Great keep update how it's going!
I'm not sure,maybe because in most of them there is lots of added sugar!0 -
Many of the foods on there I wouldn't consider "junk food" (peanut butter? bread?). I applaud your efforts, but I prefer to eat those things in moderation as I can.0
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Well, whole grain bread isn't junk but white bread is but i don't eat bread anyway! 0
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So What about January 4th until Valentine's Day? Because not many people can commit to that through the holidays!0
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OMG, no chocolate? No way.
The first six make me so very, very sad.0 -
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Labelling food good / bad / junk leads to yo-yoing IMHO
By all means if you can't stop eating something eliminate it
But a healthy approach in my view is to work out what you can eat within your calories allowance to hit your nutritional goals and to focus on eating foods that you enjoy0 -
So What about January 4th until Valentine's Day? Because not many people can commit to that through the holidays!
Sure, would be also good to try after holidays!MommyL2015 wrote: »OMG, no chocolate? No way.
The first six make me so very, very sad.
Haha! No chocolate will be challenging for me, but i can do it 0 -
I'm sure you can but I don't see why you would want to follow a fad0
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Labelling food good / bad / junk leads to yo-yoing IMHO
By all means if you can't stop eating something eliminate it
But a healthy approach in my view is to work out what you can eat within your calories allowance to hit your nutritional goals and to focus on eating foods that you enjoy
Well, I agree with the part about eliminating foods that you cant stop eating. I eliminated fizzy drinks 6 years ago and I never even think about drinking it again.
I try eating as healthy as possible and these foods only make me crave them even more! So for me only eliminating works. But we are all different
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It's Christmas Eve and I started my annual goodie baking yesterday. There are 2 types of fudge, 3 types of chocolate bark, peanut butter balls and cake balls in my fridge right now. I have bowls out and ready to make snowball, chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar and cinnamon roll cookies.
Today is not a good day to cut out sugar or chocolate or peanut butter from my diet. I'll probably consume 1/2 my calories in just licking my fingers.0 -
Wow sounds delicious!
Than enjoy Christmas Eve goods, there will be time after holidays to take a little break from sugar!! 0 -
I couldn't do this over the holiday season but I could start January 2nd.0
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Sure!0
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I am cutting back on my treats in January because I tend to eat too much to lose when eating them. I am not starting yet though. I have about four more higher calorie days planned.0
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OP I know your heart is in the right place but your list is silly. You can eat everything on your list in moderation and still lose. Your list is the demonization of food. Food is not bad. Too many calories are bad if you are trying to lose.0
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Reasons why i know those are bad foods is last year they caused me WAY higher blood sugar than ever when i began eating them everYday, in moderation, i was losing weight but my mouth was extremely dry all the time and its because of too much added sugar in them. Was drinking more than 3L water everyday but it wasn't a help.
The best thing i did for my health was giving up fizzy drinks and no way that i could drink them again even if someone said they aren't as bad.
It's not that i am giving up those food forever!
I think it's okay to have your own opinion on anything but judging somebody's effort in trying to live as healthiest possible and choosing not to eat food that we all know is bad and addictive is silly. Again, it's my opinion on this!0 -
OP...If you feel better by giving those food items up then by all means give them up or maybe at least cut back on them. After your 21 days maybe you can add some back in to your diet in a smaller quantity.
None of those foods cause me any problems. I have however eliminated/cut back on some foods because they cause my blood pressure to rise.
I don't consider any food bad/addictive...I do however think that some foods might not fit what an individual wants or needs as part of their main diet. There are several foods that I eat on rare occasions but I would not want them as part of my main way of eating.
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i didnt realise peanut butter and white bread is junk food
why isnt bacon on the list too?
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ilovemycoffee19 wrote: »This foods!
That looks like the instructions for sadness
I agree. I don't consider foods "good" or "bad", so that list is useless (and sad) to me. Anything fits within the context of a varied, well-rounded diet.0 -
Definetely! It's great that you had willpower to eliminate some foods. We are all different, some people are more sensitive to sugar and processed foods, some not.
I am cautious of bad foods cause in my family there are diabetics. I had normal weight, lost some and it was suprising to see my sugar level so high, almost above normal just in a few months after i started eating them everyday
I never said that anyone here should give them up, but eating them not as often would be a good thing. Yes, they are addictive, reason why there is growth in obesity is because sugar is added in all bad foods in big amounts, and sugar is highly addictive. Reason why is tough to give up those foods if you are eating them regulary is because sugar is more addictive than some drugs. And sugar is really added everywhere. The more sugar there is, the better taste.
I was struggling back then giving up sugar and had withdrawals cause it's just like any other addiction.
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Soooo, the conclusion here is that i will do this and if you won't that is just FINE! 0
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Therealobi1 wrote: »i didnt realise peanut butter and white bread is junk food
why isnt bacon on the list too?
In white bread there is much added sugar. I consider bacon is not as bad as all these. Again, it's not a list that i made
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ilovemycoffee19 wrote: »Therealobi1 wrote: »i didnt realise peanut butter and white bread is junk food
why isnt bacon on the list too?
In white bread there is much added sugar. I consider bacon is not as bad as all these. Again, it's not a list that i made
There's no more added sugar in white bread than any other kind...and it's not that much. Only enough for the yeast to feed on.
I'm sorry but this is just silly. Certainly by all means eliminate some of these things if you can't moderate them within a calorie goal. But to applaud the complete elimination of a random list of "junk" foods just because someone made an internet .gif and called it a 'challenge' is going to result in failure much more than success0
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