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Christmas is soon! Lets get super healthy!

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Monica said #1 Nov 26, 2011 at 5:40am

Who wants to try and be really healthy before Christmas? I am trying to do a sugar-detox, and I know it will be especially hard. I am up for the challenge! Who's with me?

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Monica said #2 Nov 26, 2011 at 5:41am

I am going to start logging on HERE what I eat every day. I really need to stop eating sugar. I may be addicted. College is stressful and leads to me eating tooooo muchsugar!!!

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Monica said #3 Nov 28, 2011 at 5:49pm

Breakfast: Miso soup, steal cut oats made with almond milk and flax seed. Part of a black bean brownie


Lunch: Vegetable soup, barley with corn. Black bean brownie.


Dinner: Vegetable soup, chick peas, oatmeal.


Snack later: Flax seed, swig of almond milk.

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Monica said #4 Nov 29, 2011 at 5:11pm

Breakfast: Black bean brownie. Steel cut oats with Nutritional Yeast. Snacked on a few almonds.


Snack: Oatmeal with chia seeds and walnuts


Lunch: Sandwhich consisting of whole wheat bread, hummus, tabouleh, green peppers and beans. Also had lots of broccoli with it! And a few strips of peppers.


Dinner: Two barley pancakes with an avocado and banana spread and flax seed. Then there was a salad with lentils. Nom Nom Nom.

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Kaity said #5 Dec 9, 2011 at 5:54pm

hey just found this post, im so down! ive been eating like a crazy person the past wk or 2, just all the cookies and desserts i cant hold myself back! id def do this! tm i got a party all day so i aint guna post tm coz idk wat ima eat at all but nxt day def!

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Bretzel said #6 Dec 10, 2011 at 6:57am

hi monica, hi kaity!


let´s do this! I find the time up to christmas even harder to not stray from my goals then the festive days themselves.. there are so many afterwork parties and birthdays in my family! way to many oppurtunities to overindulge.. but as far as I can see you stuck to the plan perfectly, monica! at least on the days you posted.. how do you feel now? what do you do against possible sugar cravings? tonight we´ll dine out, that´s bit tricky but sometimes it helps to have a "healthy" dessert waiting at home to skip the icecream at the restaurant..

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Kaity said #7 Dec 10, 2011 at 8:31am

good!yess same here and i just love to bake around the holidays so im trying a diff recipe always! today im having


breakfast-green smoothie, 1frozen banana 1c almondmilk green powder,a few strawberries n handful of spinach


lunch-finishin my pumpkin stash and havin another smoothie just subbin pumpkin for the berries and no spinach


dinn- large salad with roasted veggies hummus n refried beans


snacks-almonds and an apple


..i sorta just tryna detox nxt few days and get my sugar cravings gone with the fruit, im not even a sweets person just around the holidays i become one;)

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Bretzel said #8 Dec 11, 2011 at 8:18am

with me the problem is that all the mums and grandmas in my family are exqusite cooks and their cakes.. well, this afternoon I fell off the wagon specularly with four slices of "gugelhupf" and immediately had to bear the consequences of all the unkind things- for hours, I felt so sick I thought I was going to throw up.. well, my body does seem to know what´s good for it but I´m really furious with myself because of my lack of control.. I know Alicias says it´s okay to take one´s time and to just move on making good choices but sometimes it just feels so hard making the same mistake again and again.. anyone out there who has similar issues?

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Kaity said #9 Dec 11, 2011 at 1:57pm

i definatly have the same issue, and u get upset about it but im slowly learning to instead of falling of the wagon for the day or the week i fall off for the meal and pick up where i left off, it took me awhile tho! i did good today cept had a largee piece of a mint chocolate chip cake i made and ill just workout alil harder tomorrow, itll get better just what you gotta do atleast what i did was focus on the bigger picture not lookin to fit in your pants by the wknd or say christmas look at it as gettin healthy for life and that if u dont fit in ur pants that wknd u will one day uno, it stinks i no!

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Bretzel said #10 Dec 13, 2011 at 3:02am

right, I would think keeping a healthy weight more as an extra benefit to protecting our planet and our mental sanity! anyway- that´s why I´m even more depressed once I´ve "failed" again". but what can we do, than try again? I´ve been doing good for the last two days now and hope my determination will keep me strong through the work christmas dinner tomorrow...

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