Sugar Free Challenge - Day 3

Doing well now with the challenge, but the evening of the first day was ROUGH. Kyle and I walked to Whole Foods to partake in the bar extravaganza because all their food ingredients are labeled so well. I could barely finish my meal because all I wanted was something sweet. I had the shakes like a crack addict. When we got home, I made myself some raspberries with yogurt and honey.

Day 2 - Breakfast - eggs with prosciutto and parmesan.
Lunch - fruit smoothie and potato chips
Dinner - homemade hamburgers with garlic, onion and colby cheese with cottage cheese and an antipasto salad.
Snack - grapes

Day 3 - Breakfast - gluten free banana / blueberry pancakes with peanut butter & honey, bacon
Lunch - pear, orange, pistachios
Dinner - seared tuna and broccoli

Sugar Free Challenge

In talking with my Mom about what her and my Dad could do to adjust their diet (because they're not really doing anything wrong), I challenged her to go sugar free for one week.

Then yesterday I realized that I needed to take the same challenge. So starting today, both Kyle and I will be reading labels and staying away from sugar from one week.

The hardest part will be abstaining from coffee (because I add sugar and soy milk) and after lunch and dinner when I crave sugar.

Today's Breakfast - plain yogurt, banana, strawberries, grapes, gluten-free granola, honey, and dried cranberries (as I type this I realize that there might be sugar in the cranberries so I just ran to check the label and sure enough, evaporated can juice - SHIT!), and green tea

This is going to be hard.

Livable Streets Alliance Street Talk

LivableStreets Alliance to host Street Talk by Marius Navazo on What we can learn from Spain: urban mobility planning in Barcelona.

When: Thursday, June 25, 7 - 9 pm
Where: 100 Sidney Street, Central Square, Cambridge

*This event is free and open to the public. donation suggested beer/sodas provided compliments of Harpoon Brewery and delivered thanks to Metro Pedal Power!* What are the results of impementing better transit networks, traffic calming zones, and a bike sharing program? Are these measures always environmentally-friendly? Are they enough to create better places to live and enjoy? Learn about the development of urban mobility plans in Greater Barcelona and Catalonia, Spain. See what the Catalan Government is encouraging municipalities to do.

Marius Navazo is a geographer who has been working for the last 10 years in town and regional planning, focused on transportation and its impacts to improve cities from a social and environmental perspective. He has been working at the Catalan Government for the last 4 years, and now he is a freelancer working for different municipalities in the Barcelona area.
For more information, click here.