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Responding to WEDNESDAY's Challenge (a little late): 10 Cups Water - Check 45 Minutes Cardio! - Pilates (taking it light due to a cold I am fighting) Under Calories - Check Bonus: Tell how taking steps to become more healthy will affect your life, family and friends! Taking steps to become more healthy will provide my life…

I love these daily challenges. Thanks!

OK, sorry to keep posting so many different messages, but I just found the challenge for today. I am doing great with my water intake already, so I am confident that I will be able to reach this 12-cup goal today. I walked for 1 hr this morning, so check on the activity. I joined this group because I have recently begun to…

My current weight, by the way, is 173lbs. Goal weight is 160.

I'll commit to this challenge. A dozen lbs like a dozen eggs. I like it. Just in time for Easter. ;-)

Bravo for working so hard at it! Keep it up and I believe you will get your lungs stronger too. I wanted to strongly encourage you to always have an inhaler with you (or whatever you may use in case of an asthma attack) when you are running. Also, I wanted to encourage you to talk to your doctor to ask her how your asthma…

This comment made me laugh. I know what you mean by "shopping". When you loose weight and can wear clothes you haven't fit into forever, it feels like you suddenly got a bunch of new outfits! I LOVE IT!

MissKim, Thanks for being so honest with your own struggle. That takes a lot of courage. Wow, can I say first that I am always sad to hear when the church does more harm than good. I am a christian and yet I have been deeply hurt by the church. Over the years my faith and hope in the health and value of the "church" in…

My main goal with avoiding sugar is to stop loosing control on foods that are mainly sugar. I eat that stuff way too much when I am not fasting. About the yoplait, I just think it is to each persons descretion, but for me, I can't say I will stop eating them. I did read recently that someone did the South Beach Diet (which…

MODIFICATION (to not ALWAYS avoiding items with sugar as the 2nd ingredient): I realized today as I was sharing a Yoplait Fat Free Light Strawberry Banana Yogurt with my son that sugar was the 2nd ingredient in the yogurt. This surprised me. I ocasionally enjoy yogurt and have been encouraged to do so because of the…

You must be better with that than me and I am glad it is working well for you. I, on the other hand, struggle with addictive-like tendencies and fasting sugar has been the greatest success I have had of eating it in moderation. The life change for me is not to never eat sugar again, but to decide the days in advance when I…

If you are interested in joining a support thread for this Sugar Fast (a goal where I am having success in my own life) see under Motivation and Support and search for Topic: "Sugar Drug Fast - Support Thread. The details of the challenge will be outlined there.

READ TOPIC "Sugar is not your friends January Challenge". It shares a lot of good thoughts about the battle we can have with sugar, even the shame we feel after we eat it and how a feeling of defeat can cause us to gorge on it. There are a lot of people working toward this sugar fast goal. It has always made sense to me…

This is a great post. I totally agreed with what was shared, especially about eating some and then feeling SHAME and wanting to eat more after that . . . I do this almost to punish myself. Wow, that's crazy. Getting it out of our lives, or at least to the outer boarders, is smart! Before I saw this tread I just posted a…

Morgan - I totally agree with you about not going overboard with a sugar fast. I really don't know anything about the South Beach Diet, but I think trying to cut everything with sugar out of your diet would be so difficult (almost impossible). My goal has been to cut back on anything that would have sugar in the first 2…

Kim wrote - "Maybe we should start a support thread." So, How do we do this? Not sure how that works. I will try to figure it out, but if anyone can help me that would be great.

TaraMaria, Yeah, I didn't even realize it until I read your comment, but I had ton's more energy too! I mean, like a LOT. I was just so busy cleaning and shopping that I still felt a little tired from it, so I might not have realized the extra energy was there. But when I consider all the things I got done, well, I'm just…

What exactly is the goal? Some kind of exercise every day? Does it have to be a certain length of time or intensity. I would like to join in, but just wanted to understand what I am shooting for here.

Actually I recently started a 21 day "sweet-fast" at the beginning of November. I felt so great that I decided to go till New Year's Eve, save something yummy on Christmas day. I am pretty sure that each time I reach my goal I will just set another one a little ways out, like my birthday in January and then Valentines Day.…

There is nothing like getting back into an old pair of great jeans!