EAT.SWEAT.BLOG. FEATS

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We worked with Whole Foods Market, Clean Plates NYC, and the kitchn to come up with these 22 feats of healthy eating, engineered to please your body and to kick start healthy eating habits. Complete 10 of these feats and you've nailed the Eat part of the challenge....

The instructions here are simple, though not necessarily easy: Anyone can achieve a Feat. Simply scan the list below, and then go out and do it. Once done, come back here, click on the Feat title, and then hit the "Feat Accompli" button on the individual feat page. Your name will be listed in the "Achievers" list, and you will get a satisfying green check next to your name. If you're looking for tips and/or simply want to discuss your attempts, comment away.

Note: To see the details about a feat, including all achievers, click on the title.

The Feats You? Achievers Comments

Brightly Colored

Food is not just about taste. It's about smell, and texture, and color. In some important, primal way, food colors signal things to us, and safe to say a monochromatic diet is not a healthy one. "The deeper the color, the healthier it is,"...
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Brown Bagger

Remember emptying the contents of your lunch bag to discover a hand-writen note from Mom tucked tightly between your turkey sandwich and pretzel sticks? Or the way the american cheese and mayo oozed through the white bread after spending five hours too many stuffed in a...
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Caffeine free

Think you can do it? We do. No caffeine for a week. It raises cortisol levels in your body, causes your blood sugar to spike and leads to eventual fatigue. Withdraw now and thank us later.

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Fast Foodless

The wonders of free market capitalism have made certain tasty-but-not-particularly-healthy food experiences exceptionally cheap and convenient. But overreliance on big, national fast food chains isn't particularly healthy, for anyone. Just ask...
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Flog

It sounds annoying to write down everything you eat all day long, but why not give it a shot? Keeping track of the foods you consume will make you more mindful and self-aware. For one week carry a notebook and record your daily intake.
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Food Serving

Share the love: Do one shift with City Harvest or a another local food bank. 

Here's the ultimate in social workouts. While we challenge our bodies to live a healthier October, we commit to collectively improve the...
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Go Veggie

There you go again: Your meaty paw is reaching for another order of
glistening, bright red spare ribs. You bite into a greezy cheeseburger, a slimy hot dog, a pimpley chicken leg all covered in skin. You're a meat-lover, and we love you for it. But it's time to...
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Juice fast

We know juice fasts can be faddist, (think San Francisco, the 1970s, hippie chicks in moomoos drinking liquid lettuce), but we're only asking you to do it for a day. Sip celery, carrot, kale, cabbage, apple, pineapple, cranberry, spinach, beet, and greens through a...
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Just Water

Water is your body's principal chemical component, making up, on average, 60 percent of your body weight. Every system in your body depends on water. Water flushes toxins out of vital organs and carries nutrients to your cells. Water is, to put it simply, awesome. It keeps your skin smooth and...
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Lo-gloo

Eat nothing made with wheat. We're only asking you to do it for a week. No wheat, barley or rye. Explore other alternatives: Corn pasta, wheat-free cakes, bread made from brown rice. Garbanzo flour, fava bean flour, coconut flour, Bob's Red Mill. A lot...
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Localvore

To complete the Localvore feat, everything you consume for 24 consecutive hours must come from within 200 miles of your home. This hardly calls for suffering. Local breads, cheeses, wines, meats, seafoods, and, of course, fruits and veggies are easily found at your...
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No Late Night Snacking

Bored and listless, you rustle around your apartment at 11:30 PM. The Colbert Report is over, reruns of Sex and The City don't come on for another half hour, and you're wired from that last cup of Joe. What to do... You amble into the kitchen and open the fridge. Nibble at the...
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No-moo

String cheese for a snack, half-and-half in your coffee, whole milk in your cereal, parmesan on your pasta and how about those drippy cheddar cheese quesadillas? You've got a lot of dairy in your diet—don't worry, we're not judging. But too much of it can make you mucusy and sluggish. Try...
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On The Wagon

Are you tired of waking up in the morning pimply and sweaty and stinking of booze? Perhaps you've had one too many beers this past summer, too much wine; your breath is bad and your stomach is big and you're overall feeling like a big boozy slug. Here's the opportunity...
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Personal chef

You know how in movies about New York there's always a scene where a bunch of people gather in some cool apartment and make dinner together and the soundtrack is some upbeat "Journey" song? We're not asking you to listen to "Journey"—but we do want you to cook ten meals for your friends. Ten...
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Raw food day

Look. That boiled cauliflower is calling your name. The hot flame-grilled steak, the sizzling bowl of buttery steamed string beans. And don't forget the gooey rice pudding, served with a side of warmed whipped cream. Wait! This is the raw challenge. You must put down...
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Smoothiest

This feat was inspired by our landlord Sascha, who makes a spirulina-almond milk-peanut butter-smoothie each morning. But the options are endless. How about plain yogurt and berries with a flax seeds and banana? Or just plain avocado and banana? Try maca powder, acai,...
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Soda Free

What's cold, fizzy, sweet and can remove rust spots from chrome bumpers, grease from clothes, dissolve a t-bone steak in two days and a nail in about four days, and tastes GREEEEEEEEEAT? It's cola, of course—loaded with chemicals, acids, sugars and dyes—and it's super...
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SW-e-AT

OMG! Food - exercise pairing! Welcome to the challenge official wildcard feat, created in conjunction with Apartment Therapy's thekitchn.com. (SW + AT, see?) This one requires dedication and a sense of humor. Every day in October, we'll post a food and a body part. Your...
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The Kitchen Cure

Shopping and cooking for yourself is a key step to eating well. But it won't do to work in a kitchen cluttered with aging leftovers, questionable ingredients, burnt frying pans, and piles of old mail. Does that sound familiar? What you need is the Kitchen Cure, brought to you by our dear friends...
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Unsweetened

We know, you're obsessed with eating sweets. And we're asking you to give them up—but that's not all. Forget adding sugar to your coffee, honey in your tea, a squirt of agave on your finger. NO SUGAR. Read your labels. Adios high fructose corn syrup, cane juice, maple...
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