The No Sweets Challenge!

Copying the rules Charm made for all of us on the forum as a reminder to myself. haha! :)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

The rule: Stay away from “sweets” for 1 week

What foods should we stay away from?

1. Desserts/ Snacks

All kind of cakes, pies, sweet breads and pastries (pan de coco, cinnamon roll, ensaymada, cream puff etc), rice cakes (biko,sapin-sapin, tikoy), any form of chocolates, brownies, muffins, chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, ice cream cake, leche flan, ube, halo-halo, pretzels, banana chips, taho with syrup, caramel popcorn

2. Candies

hard candies, gummy candies, jams, jellies, preserves, marshmallows, sampaloc, nata de coco, toffee candies, yema, pastillas, pulvoron, bubble gum, cotton candy, peanut brittle, pili tart, honey, sugar-free gums and candies

3. Drinks

Designer coffees and frappuccinos, designer milk teas, frozen yogurt, carbonated drinks, sweetened beverages, powdered fruit drinks (like tang, nestea iced tea), alcoholic drinks, chocolate-flavored and any other sweetened milk (including Yakult)

What are allowed?

·         Fruits (except the canned, sweetened, and dried kind) up to 3 servings per day

      Here are the allowed fruits:

Citrus fruits (orange, ponkan, lemon, grapefruit)

Mango

Papaya

Pineapple

Grapes

Apples

Berries (only the fresh kind)

Kiwi

Banana (all types)

·         Soda crackers, plain breads

·         Milk, Plain yogurt

·         Sweeteners (Stevia)

·         You are allowed with just 1 tbsp of sugar ONLY for the day

·         Plain popcorn

·         Nuts

How will we know if you are being honest?

We would really appreciate it (meaning we will keep a hawk's eye on your blogs everyday haha) if you could fill up your BT food blogs everyday. You can check Terry's blog for example. It doesn't have to be lengthy, what's impt is your diet details :)

Spread the word!

Let's make this viral, Belles! We are encouraging everyone to flood our Belletoday Facebook page with their daily challenge struggles :D and bombard our Twitter as well! Please use #belletoday and  #btchalllenge as hashtags