Hi everyone!
I'm back at it and I'm able to start blogging more regularly - again I apologise for the lack of posts, its been a manic few weeks! Anyways lets get onto the post!
So this last month you may have seen me posting on social media and including on here about something called a Dechox (not a detox, theres a name difference!)
I'm back at it and I'm able to start blogging more regularly - again I apologise for the lack of posts, its been a manic few weeks! Anyways lets get onto the post!
So this last month you may have seen me posting on social media and including on here about something called a Dechox (not a detox, theres a name difference!)
What is it?
The Dechox challenge was set up this year by the British Heart Foundation. The challenge was to cut out any form of chocolate or anything with cocoa in it out of our diet for the whole month of March to raise awareness for heart problems. If you accept the challenge, you can set up a Just Giving page and try and raise a bit of money for the charity.
Why did I do it?
I took on this challenge with my friend Aimee as we thought it would be something fun to do and see how long we could go without chocolate. If you know me, you'll know that I have a HUGE sweet tooth and I would normally have something sweet at least twice a day (I know my dentists love me!) So taking this on would test how I would be able to cope without having something to enjoy which I would normally have in my diet! Oh, I forgot to mention that we decided to cut out biscuits, sweet and sugary snacks - even more pain!
Lots of people thought it was a dumb idea to do or that it wasn't much of a challenge or people would make a joke out of it. Firstly, I thought that people who made a joke out of it was pretty sad. Its a challenge for charity, even if it wasn't a big challenge, we were still doing it to raise money and awareness for something that means a lot to me!
The British Heart Foundation means a lot to me due to my grandfather, mum and one of my closest friends having heart conditions. My mum was told about 5 years ago that her heart isn't at the best condition like everyone else's. We found this out because she frequently kept getting heart palpitations and her blood pressure was high and all these other weird problems. So, when we found out she had to go to Papworth Hospital and have an operation where they burn away at the heart and try to slow it down (I can't remember all the details!) However, she had to go through this operation twice. It was a worrying time and I would've love to had the support which The British Heart Foundation gives to people and families who have to go through this. Its a tough time and theres always worry, so thats why I took on this challenge!
So me and Aimee decided to do a joint Just Giving page and have a target of £100 to raise by the end of the month:
Lots of people thought it was a dumb idea to do or that it wasn't much of a challenge or people would make a joke out of it. Firstly, I thought that people who made a joke out of it was pretty sad. Its a challenge for charity, even if it wasn't a big challenge, we were still doing it to raise money and awareness for something that means a lot to me!
The British Heart Foundation means a lot to me due to my grandfather, mum and one of my closest friends having heart conditions. My mum was told about 5 years ago that her heart isn't at the best condition like everyone else's. We found this out because she frequently kept getting heart palpitations and her blood pressure was high and all these other weird problems. So, when we found out she had to go to Papworth Hospital and have an operation where they burn away at the heart and try to slow it down (I can't remember all the details!) However, she had to go through this operation twice. It was a worrying time and I would've love to had the support which The British Heart Foundation gives to people and families who have to go through this. Its a tough time and theres always worry, so thats why I took on this challenge!
So me and Aimee decided to do a joint Just Giving page and have a target of £100 to raise by the end of the month:
We managed to beat the target of £100 a few days ago! I'm so happy that we were able to do it as at some points of the month we were worried we wouldn't get any money!! But we have, and I want to give a HUGE THANKS to everyone who donated! The month has been tough some days believe it or not, but I'm now seeing the end of it and it hasn't been all bad! Just a 2 more days to go without chocolate and I cannot wait for Wednesday - I'll be sinking my teeth into a nice Kinder Bueno!
See you in the next blog post,
See you in the next blog post,
P.S do you like the Easter layout?? Found it lying around on my laptop and it is Easter this weekend!!!
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