Starting today!

Want to join me for a one month challenge to ditch the sugar alcohols and/or legal treats??

I am not going to have a single thing with sugar alcohols, and will be cutting out most legal treats except sugar free jello with a splash of heavy cream.

No candy for me, or ice cream for an entire month. Can't wait to see how it affects my weight on april 29th.

Anyone in??

Hi, nice to meet you too!
That's just about a month. I think it's going to make a big difference for us!

Count me in! This is definitely a challenge I can get behind! I will start today - March 29.

I will keep my coffee and Italian sodas but no cheesecake, candies, bars, etc. I will also work to keep my syrup use to 4 tbsp or 2 packets Splenda daily.

HI Paris!!

Good idea about the splenda use too... I will have to moderate that usage too.. so I figure I will do a month, just go from April 1-til end of April..

Hiya Paris

I agree we can't really give up everything. It makes it too severe. I'll keep my jello and maybe an occasional diet Coke.

glad you guys are joining me!

Funny I was just thinking today perhaps I should cut out sugar alcohol from my diet to see if it has any effect. I eat maybe 2 pieces of candy per day...usually not even an entire serving. But I read a thread that said some sugar alcohols can be just as bad as sugar to your system. I cant cut out all because I have Atkins shakes and they have that in there too *sigh*

I will not purchase any more candy and will not eat any more sugar alcohol (except my shakes) until April 27th (my b-day). Having LC Cheesecake that day.

I'll join in my loss has been really slow, so I'll see if this will help

Day 1 Update: I did well! No sugar alcohols or dessert-type treats. I used 4 tbsp of Da Vinci's - 2 tbsp in coffee in morning and 2 tbsp in an Italian soda in the evening. I feel very satisfied.

Update here too:

I failed the first day of my own challenge.

I had cream cheese with Equal for dessert, just couldn't help it, BUT, it kept me out of the Golden Grahams. I was REALLY thinking about just going ahead and having them, but I ate that and was full and satisfied, so I guess it evened out.

Tomorrow I guess is day one officially for me.

Good job Paris!

Raleigh.

Well, I am retaining some water from all the cream cheese and Equal yesterday, but the nasty stuff is all gone and I can get back to my resolution!
How's everyone else doing?

Have a great day

Ahhh, crap.

Guess who just killed day 2 of the "Ditch the Sweets" Challenge with 5 bites of low-carb cookies and cream ice cream? Hovering over the kitchen sink no less?

Um, yeah, not Paris.... Ok, it was me.

Paris

What a pair we are. Okay, so we both got our slip ups out of the way early

I'm holding firm so far today. I had 1/2 of a diet Coke, and no other sweets.

I fully expect great things from my scale come april 29th!

Hello ladies.. can I join. I am usually pretty good about staying away from the treats, but I have some sugar free candies that I like to suck on in class.... Also I have some chocolate LC ice cream in the freezer Im going to try and get DB to eat before I am tempted to cheat. I have been stalled in my weight loss, and since I started to lose again this week, I dont want anything to mess it up! I am a day late, but I only had one (ok, ok two) peices of the LC candy yesterday.. so Ill start fresh today! Are we going to have a logo/graphic for this challenge?

Glad to meet you all!! and good luck!

Dahlia

Welcome, Dahlia!

Unfortunately, we don't have a graphic, but you can link it by name in your siggy.