Announcements
Introduction
Hi my name is Tameika and I don't know how to say no to sweets. I'm starting this challenge to help motivate me and others to stay on track with our eating. The challenge will begin **June 1**. Everyone starts with 100 points and while you can’t gain points, you lose points if you eat anything from the not recommended…
Discussions
June Challenge
This thread will be for posting your points through out June. If you prefer to use a Google Doc, I will have one up and running soon. I would love if you enter your points in the format: Date: Points left: This is because we may be on different time zones and I won't know what day you're referring to.
Things you're giving up
This thread is for us to list the things, based on our food items list, that we will be giving up to meet this challenge. For me: salted butter canadian bacon cream cheese chicken with skin....[silent crying] juice (from concentrate) mayonnaise....[weeping] salted nuts pastries...[weeping and gnashing of teeth] sugared…
What do you hope to accomplish?
Why are you interested in this challenge? What do you hope to achieve by watching what you eat and eliminating stuff from your diet?
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. When does this challenge start? June 1. 2. How many points do I get per day? Actually, you get 100 points per WEEK. 3. I ate 2 slices of cake this morning, do I subtract 2 x 10 = 20 points? If you had the 2 slices in one sitting, for example for breakfast, subtract 10 points. If you had the 2 slices at different times,…
High Fructose Corn Syrup
So as I was doing up my shopping list, I wrote Post Raisin Bran. I LOVE cereal and I saw Whole Grain Cereal under level 2 so I figured this would be ok. Anyway, went to check the ingredients (I have a box at home) and saw "whole grain wheat". Great!...I thought. Then I continued to scan, and lo and behold: high fructose…
