Similar with my 30 Days Limited Carbs Challenge (Google Sheet embedded in blog post, updated in real time), I want to run a 30 Days Junk Free Challenge, maybe it will motivate me to eat less of it.

Info about the challenge:
– starts on Saturday, 15 October, when you need to post your Starting weight, in kg and what you categorize as junk. You alone choose your junk-definition. May include gluten or not. May include dairy or not. And so on.
– ends on Tuesday, 15 November, when you need to post your Final weight, also kg.
– the reporting system is kg only.
– minimum number of participants: 3
– intervals for junk monitoring and reporting:
—– Junk Free = max 50 calories of junk
—– Under 20% = max 20% of your TDEE
—– Cheat meal = max 50% of your TDEE
—– Cheat day = over 50% of your TDEE
– the sheet makes totals for every junk interval.
– starting Sunday, 16 October, daily, you need to post the junk interval (from the list above) for your previous (ended) day. Ex: on Sunday, 16 October, if on previous day (15 October) you had max 50 calories of junk, you need to post: Day 15 = junk free. On Monday, 17 October, if on previous day (16 October) you had junk over 50% of your TDEE, you need to post: Day 16 = cheat day. And so on.
– for me to be easier to follow, Day Number will be the same as the calendar day which you report.
– the daily reports will be posted on this thread on 5:2 Diet Forum. If you do not have a 5:2 Forum account, but you wish to participate, you can also post in the comments of that blog post.
– at 3 consecutive or 4 non-consecutive missing reports the name is removed from the list.
– the order in the list will be alphabetical (sort field “name”).

If anyone wishes more details, I’m happy to respond.

If anyone wishes to join, please tell me here on the comments so I can add your name to the list, and on Saturday, 15 October, you will update with the Starting-weight (kg) and your junk-definition.

The statistics will be here: http://dailyfastingweightloss.blogspot.com/2016/10/junk-free-challenge-oct-2016.html

Good Luck!

Update: if someone wants to quit alcohol / coffee / cigarettes.. any addiction (instead of junk), may also join this challenge. And instead of %TDEE, he alone sets junk intervals.

If anyone is interested, I can make small changes to the file, to be easier to report for various addiction.

Day 15 = junk free

Thanks for notifying me, Will. Good luck with the other challenges!

Normally I should stop the challenge, being less than 3 participants, but this time only I will let Holly choose if she wants to continue or stop. Either way I am commited to log my junk intake for the next 30 days, so no problem for me to log one more set of data.

Day 17 = cheat meal.

If you continue to post, I’ll be glad to log it. This challenge also motivates me. Instead of 2 full cheat days, like I craved to be the weekend, I had 2 junk-free days and only 1 cheat meal yesterday. So for me also it works!

Day 22 = cheat day
Day 23 = zero

Holly, cheat days in weekends, and zero / under 20% in weekdays is super! I also want to reach this level. 🌷

Day 25 was actually cheat meal. 26 also. 27 zero.

And no “good” plans for weekend. Life.

Days 28, 29, 30 = cheat days.
Hope to do better next week.

Good luck Holly, for the next 2 weeks.

☕🌞

Day 31 – cheat day.
Day 1 – cheat meal planned.