For all you beautiful people out there that wonder what sort of affect, even the smallest amounts of refined sugar can do to you body, I am volunteering myself as a fitness monkey for 3 weeks, beginning on the 1st of May :(
The theory behind it…
Well, as you have seen in one of my previous blogs, refined sugar is pretty much crap for you and has absolutely no nutritional benefits whatsoever. For all you people on a health kick and thinking that those sugary weight watchers products and whatever other marketed weight loss products you’re consuming, that basically reinforce sugar intake but in smaller amounts , are acceptable, this mini experiment will hopefully open your eyes. For those that are pretty much healthy but consume the odd alcoholic beverage (or two) and a few biscuits or sweet treats here and there, this experiment will hopefully show that even at minimal intake levels, sugar has disastrous effects on the body!
As a personal trainer I eat very VERY healthily….the majority of the time. Unfortunately since childhood I’ve had it embedded in my mind, how beautiful pudding is, and have to have one most days (please do not think less of me; I do make sure that I consume less elsewhere). I also love the odd tipple, or ten. Despite this, I train on average around 12 hours a week (phew I couldn’t believe it when I totalled it up), so I’m quite lucky that these treats I love rarely have an effect on my body….or do they?
The purpose…
So what’s the point right? Well I eat healthily 80% of the time and train my little arse off but have I hit a plateau with my fitness and body fat due to the small amounts of refined sugar I consume?
This was all too much for my curiosity so I decided, that for 3 weeks I will do without any kind of refined sugar products or alcoholic beverages (*sobs*) and let you know exactly what even the teeniest bits can do to a hardcore fitness junkie, which will hopefully put it into perspective what the rest of you are doing to your bodies!
How will we know if it’s worked…
I will do the most humiliating task, of posting my body stats on the internet (how embarrassing). They will include my height, weight, body fat percentage, visceral fat , BMR and metabolic age. They will be done at the beginning and end of the experiment and we will see if they change!
To further prove a point on how sugar can affect your fitness, for all you aspiring athletes out there, I will also do a timed 3 mile run, seeing whether a reduced sugar intake affects my performance over the 3 weeks.
And of course I will keep you all updated on my little journey to some amazing (hopefully) results!!!!
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