Week #5 Bonus Challenge

ELIMINATE YOUR FAVORITE INDULGENCE!

After a few weeks on this sensible lifestyle challenge, we have all figured out how to eat around the rules.  You know what I mean.  We aren't being totally healthy, but we aren't losing any points, either.  So this week, you get to decide what your favorite little indulgence is, and you get to live without it for one week.  I couldn't name all of the possibilities, but I will list a few options I've thought of.  Maybe you have a particular bad habit such as eating second helpings when you aren't hungry, finishing off your kids' meals, munching while distracted, or eating on the run.  Maybe you snack too much between meals or after dinner.  Maybe eating out is sabotaging your healthy lifestyle.  Perhaps your body would be better off without a particular food because you can't seem to resist it: soda pop, margarine/butter, nuts, mayonnaise, granola bars, french fries, caffeine, cheese, chips/crackers, salad dressings, bread, sugar cereals.  Or maybe entire groups of foods are your nemesis such as those containing white flour or sugar/corn syrup.  I don't know what's preventing you from being really healthy, but you know yourself best to decide what it is.  When choosing what you'll eliminate, don't be too easy on yourself, but also don't make it impossible.  And remember that you only have to live without it for one week.  This week you get 7 points for telling a team member what you're eliminating and 4 points per day that you successfully live without your favorite indulgence for a total of 35 possible bonus points.