Tuesday 5 February 2013

Day 5 - no added sugar challenge

Hey there, how are you doing without sugar now that we hit the day 5 mark? Headaches? Agitated? Or feeling great and going great guns? All is well here and I am loving the fact our kids are embracing this challenge! Noah is even wanting to do this forever, he said;

"This challenge shouldn't be for 14 days Mum, this should be the way we eat forever!"

Bless his heart and I love him so very much. He is my rock. Everyone here is doing exceptionally well. Having said that Oscar (just started Prep) apologised yesterday for eating a muffin to celebrate his class mates birthday! I told him, it's okay and that he didn't need to apologise. Thanked him for telling me and then told him "BUT NEVER DO THAT AGAIN, ALRIGHT!!!!!" Juzzzzz kidding! I love how honest our children are with us, I really do hope this continues throughout their teenage years because I know, I was a shocker!!!!!

Didn't manage a workout today but busy running around with the kids today and some swimming got my heart rate pumping!

Vitamin D


We also got a chance to lay in the sun for a moment. Do you get enough Vitamin D? Even though Vitamin D isn't really a vitamin, it's more of a hormone. Vitamin D is necessary for strong bones and muscles. Without Vitamin D our bodies cannot effectively absorb calcium, which is essential to good bone health. That's why my Mum goes back to Serbia for the summer to warm up her bones and ease her arthritic pain. Get your Vitamin D today and the best way to do that is to eat fish! Vitamin D is rarely found in our natural foods and is typically added to milk, cereals and eggs (if the chicken was fed the vitamin).


Breakfast
Quinoa smoothie with banana and raspberries
180 Nutrition coconut protein powder
1/2 cup fresh raspberries (you can use frozen)
1 cup of milk
2tbs yogurt
1/2 cup of cooked quinoa


Breakfast smoothie



Snack
1 apple and handful of almonds

Lunch 
Vegetable beef muffins

Snack
1 apple sliced with peanut butter and cinnamon sprinkled

Dinner
Turkey chicken burgers served with salad

Healthy burgers



I try to add as many vegetables to our meat and with our heat today, the kids just had them in bread. I was happy they had all their nutrients in the one burger!


Ingredients:
Mince of your choice
grated celery and carrot
Chopped parsley and mint
2 eggs
S&P

Method:
Mix all ingredients together and make into burgers. Allow to chill for 10 minutes and then oven bake until cooked.

See! I try to make my life as easy as possible (and yours I hope), I was supervising all our kids beside the pool deck, so what better way to cook than the oven doing all the work!

I hope you had a great day today and thank you all for your lovely comments here, FB and Instagram. BTW those of you that have bought her book, how are you finding Sarah Wilson I QUIT SUGAR ebook? How divine are the recipes? Would love your feedback.

Thanks for posting your comments daily and look forward to reading how your days have been going without added sugar!
Xx Dani
PS: Look who else has no added sugar :-)

David Beckham has no added sugar




6 comments :

  1. Looks like a great day!!! :)
    xoxo
    Dani
    www.thatfitnesschic.blogspot.com

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    1. Thank you honey, how have you been? I must come by real soon xxDani

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  2. Hey Dani! So I am glad to say I am doing so much better and it is getting easier. BTW lol I'm from the US, but today I was again challenged with sweets, it is a coworkers birthday and I actually didn't crave the red velvet cake which usually is my favorite if I do eat cake, not much of a sugar person. I was proud of myself. I have planned my meals for the day and am having your beef muffins for dinner. I was actually going to do something similiar to your recipe but yours looks really good. Last night I thought I was going to be fatigued at the gym and I also thought I wasn't going to have the energy to put in much effort but last night I was very much hitting my weeks goal weights! I am loving this challenge more and more as I go! Thanks again hope your day was well!

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    1. I am so happy to read you are combating temptation! You are a strong woman! What are your colleagues saying about you going sugar free? Keep up the great work! XxDani

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  3. Hi Dani! I'm surprisingly doing really well. I got my sweet tooth back over Christmas and this challenge has helped me kick it again. I gave up soft drinks last October and suffered with a week long head ache and severe thirst which was terrible but now I can't even handle a sip of soft drink. I bought the IQS book but haven't finished reading all of it yet so I'm looking forward to some sugar free cooking coming up! Love reading your daily blog through this challenge - I don't know how you stay on top of everything! Hope you have a great day.

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  4. Thank you Helen, yes it gets tough and I need to manage my time well as I love posting to you. Well done giving up the soda drinks, they are the killers! Since converting to mineral waters with only natural juices squeezed in, I seriously cannot even have a mouth full of coke or lemonade. We can do this babe, we just need to get over the festivities hurdles as I go bezerk over the holidays and eat everything in sight!!! Happy nearly hump day my friend xx

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Thank you so much for your comment, I love it! I will reply back as soon as I can.

Much love Xx Dani