Gallery of the I Quit Sugar 8 Week Program: January – March 2015

Just photos of the food (because isn’t the food what it’s all about!?) from the January round of the I Quit Sugar 8 Week Program. For more information on my experience of the program, click here. Continue reading →

#4 Round 2 of I Quit Sugar: Weeks Seven and Eight in Review

And it’s over! The last fortnight of the IQS8WP is complete, and it’s been a fun ride. I will post a more comprehensive review of the program in the next week or so, but in the meantime, here is a brief wrap up from the last fortnight. Continue reading →

#3 Round 2 of I Quit Sugar: Weeks Five and Six in Review

I need to start this review with a confession: I’ve completely fallen off the Movement Plan wagon. The wagon is not moving. After the challenging caffeine withdrawals in Week 4, which were followed by a gastro bug, I never really picked the movement plan back up. I have the worst excuse too – I don’t have time. The oldest excuse in the book! Except… that’s it’s true (I know everyone says that too!). I am really struggling to create time for this at the moment, knowing that it would be at the expense of something equally or more important in my life. Like sleep, of which I also get too little. For the time being, I’m just trying to incorporate activity into my daily life more. Walking the kids up to the park instead of driving. Getting out with the family to the local pool more often. Spending more time outside. Climbing on the playground at the national arboretum with my son, instead of just sitting and watching. I do find I have energy to burn, at the strangest of times, and sometimes I find myself doing push-ups or squats in the kitchen while I’m waiting for water to boil. Continue reading →