At the end of March I started a challenge to reduce my daily sugar intake. I wasn’t setting out to remove sugar entirely from my diet, but to reduce the cakes, lollies, ice-cream and hot chocolates. When I quit drinking coffee, I didn’t get withdrawal symptoms but missed the habit of having a coffee. When … Continue reading 30 Day Challenge: Reducing Sugar Intake Results
I wrote recently about sustainable weight loss, I commented that through removing some really poor diet choices like Coke and moving every day that it had helped me lose 15kg and go from 108kg down to a low of 93kg. I try to exercise most days of the week by going for a run or … Continue reading 30 Day Challenge: Reducing Sugar Intake
A month ago I decided I was going to stop drinking coffee for 30 days and said: I’m going to stop drinking coffee, which will give me a new baseline for what ‘tired’ feels like. I’ll start going to bed earlier to help my body recover better and maybe my blood pressure will come down. … Continue reading 30 Day Challenge: No Coffee Results
I’m going cold turkey on coffee for 30 days to see what happens! Over the years, I’ve been a regular and high volume consumer of coffee. On an average day, I think I’d probably have 6-8 cups which is a mix of espresso and instant coffee. Despite the daily coffee intake, I can drink a … Continue reading 30 Day Challenge: No Coffee
As the next 30 day challenge, I’m going to go the entire month of June without chocolate. Following on from keeping track of what I eat over the course of an average week, which is what motivated me to cut down on my milk intake, it became clear that chocolate was another clear contributor to … Continue reading 30 Day Challenge: No Chocolate