A team of five teachers who embarked on Junk Free June are blown away by the results of their final weigh-in, losing 27.3kg between them.
Julia Costello said the team became so accustomed to "clean eating" that they weren't even particularly tempted by the indulgent options at their end-of-month celebratory feast.
"At the start of the month, we were saying, 'I can't wait until we can eat this or this.' By the end of the month, we didn't even really want [junk food]," Ms Costello said.
The teachers from Raumanga's Christopher & Robin Early Childhood Centre now planned to continue the habits they formed during during June, which saw them cut out lollies, sugar, chips, alcohol, energy drinks and "anything you can cast as junk".
"It was all clean and healthy, lots of vegetables, protein and home-cooked meals - no takeaways," Ms Costello said.