Starting the no sugar experiment!!

So as promised, I have started a 3 week no sugar experiment. The basic principles are that for 3 weeks I will consume no form of refined sugar. Obviously for nutritional reasons, natural sugars that are found in things like fruit, can be consumed as they have little effect on the body especially when consumed within a proper nutritionally balanced diet. It would silly to not consume them as their nutritional properties outweigh the fact that they have sugar in them!

Again as promised I will give you my starting statistics so that you can see in 3 weeks, the exact affect that cutting refined sugary products out of my diet has.

Starting Statistics

Gender: Female (obviously)

Age: 21

Height: 5ft 6 inches

Weight:  63.6 KG   (10 stone 0.2 lbs)

Total Body Fat Percentage: 24.9% (Female professional athletes have body fat levels of 14-20%)

Fat Mass: 2 stone 7 lbs

Muscle Mass: 7 stone 1.8 lbs

Hydration: 53.1%

Bone Mass: 5.4 lbs

BMR: 1466 Kcal (this is how much I can consume if I were to just lay in bed all day)

Metabolic Age: 17

Visceral Fat Rating: 1 (this is the fat surrounding your internal organs and is rated on a scale of 1-12 so I have virtually none!)

BMI: 22.6 (this will be slightly higher as I have a quite a high muscle mass)

Ideal body weight: 9 stone 10.4 lbs (if I were to reach this weight I would have a body fat percentage of about 21%)

Wow that’s a lot of stats! Overall I am perfectly healthy. So the difference is how healthy could I be without the refined sugary products I consume. A lot of people may say, but you’re a personal trainer and very athletic how do you consume lots of sugar? You would be surprised where it is hidden. My weekly shop took 30 minutes longer as I had to check everything I put in my trolly (literally).

To further emphasise the results of how sugar can have such negative effects on the body, I also did a timed 3 mile run, to see exactly how refined sugar products can affect sport performance.

Sport Performance Stats

3 mile (5 km) run time: 23 minutes 34 seconds (just under an 8 minute mile pace)

So guys and gals, wish me luck and I will keep you all updated on my progress, hurdles, possible withdrawal symptoms over the next few weeks!!!