21-Day No Junk Food Challenge: November Edition! (open)

Very interesting! Why 21 days though... Just curious.

Very interesting! Why 21 days though... Just curious.

I was thinking about this challenge while working out earlier and my thought was it takes 21 days to create a new habit. Now whether or not that's the true reason we're going 21 days, I'm not sure.

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I'm going to start today even if just for me, I know most are starting the 9th but I was at Trader Joe's and got what I needed but a little voice in my head seemed to think chocolate was needed in the cart. Nah... I didn't get any and it was all because I joined up on your No Sweet Challenge!

YAY...terrific idea for a challenge Hon:flowery:

Im in!

Will also try to refrain from any soft drink - but will allow myself some instead of alcoholic drinks when going out

Just a quick question but do frozen fish cakes constitute fast food stupid question probably but that's all I have to eat tonight

I don't really know what a fish cake is, but if you don't think it's junk food, it probably isn't. Or if you DO think it's junk food... it probably is. :laugh: I probably was no help here!

Definately a fast food - they are mostly made up of potato and flavouring and already have oil and salt added to them
They are certainly tasty though!

Try making your own at home and freezing (mixture of canned salmon or tuna, sweet potato instead of potato, add in some peas, corn etc, coat in herbs and a little bit of wholemeal flour instead of breadcrumbs & bake instead of frying).

I would love to do this challenge too! I did my own last month and by day 21 I ate my first bit of chocolate:( I want to see if i can stop the cravings around this time and go for longer. I will start 3rd November and Finish 24th November.....

Anyone have any tips to stop the cravings when they come?

Here's to being at my mini goal weight by the 9th December

Forgot to add start day...started 11/1/11. :flowerforyou:

Starting today...here goes nothing....

I'm in!!! This may be the challenge I need to get me back motivated and focus again.

I'm in. Damn. lol

Ok, my list will be as follows....

The rules:
No milk chocolate
No candy
No biscuit or cookies
No cake, donuts, or muffins
No pastries
No white bread
No chips
No fast food
No Nutella, or other naughty spreads
No ice cream

ok, i'm in.

going to be hard since I just got a shipment of goodie's from abe's market containing many of those things, but here we go.

mine will also include pop, because I have it in the house, though I drink it only every few months.

I will start tomorrow (11/3).

I started this today on my own so I am happy to have found some support. Mine is no white/brown sugar, no white flour products, no fast food. I need all the help I can get through the holidays avoiding all the goodies!

I almost bought candy today but then I remembered this challenge, so YAY for MFP challenges! I have kept dark chocolate because it is something that I don't go crazy over. If I am desperately craving sweets I can have 8-9 little pieces of the foley's dark chocolate buds and it's 100 calories and a worthwhile expenditure for me LOL.

Also, I decided that Luna bars are on my junk food list, because I love them and would easily replace meals with them, so this will be good. Keeping Lara bars though because since they are more expensive I don't tend to rely on them, but I like to have them around for snacks or last minute running out the door.

I'm so in!! I'll start today.

Mine is starting today. We usually get a ton of trick-or-treaters, but for some reason, we hardly got any this year, so we now have a whole bag of snickers and milky ways left. This is definitely gonna test my willpower.