Anyone here thrown sugar's butt out?

[Reverend Conehead]

I'm contemplating going without added sugar for a week and then seeing how I feel. By "added sugar," I mean any time they add sugar to food as part of a recipe or as an additive. In other words, the sugar that naturally is present in foods like cantaloupe, watermelon, grapes, etc., is cool, but you don't eat things like cake, brownies, etc., or drink things like soda pop. It sounds hard to do, but not impossible. I've watched various Youtube videos by people who have done it, and every one of them reports health benefits like better energy, better quality sleep, and more. Some of them decide to just keep it up and make it a regular thing. Here's a video on how dumping the sugar is supposed to help your health.

I've already thrown alcohol out of my life, and it was worth it. I knew I needed to call it quits when I made the cover of a tabloid in Italy dry humping the Venus de Milo statue, an act that cost me $20K and spending 30 days in an Italian jail and being banned for life from that country. ..... Just kidding, that didn't really happen, but I did have good reasons for throwing alcohol out of my life, just not as colorful. I'll be 11 years sober on January 16th.

Maybe my health would be a whole lot better if I threw sugar out. .... I wonder if honey counts. I like honey in my Earl Grey tea.

I'm curious if anyone here has given sugar the heave-ho, and what your results have been.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I don’t think I have a sweet tooth but dropping sugar entirely from one’s diet seems tough just on a practical level.

 

[Runwildboys]

I don’t think I have a sweet tooth but dropping sugar entirely from one’s diet seems tough just on a practical level.

Seems like it would be very difficult, unless they were to add aisles in supermarkets, like the glucose free ones.

 

[Birch_Wood]

Sounds very unpleasant and boring but from what you read would be helpful to your body.

 

[Sammy]

I dropped both sugar and artificial sweetener from my everyday diet a couple years ago when I noticed the heart association saying too much added sugar was bad for your heart.

It's not hard if you cook your own food, but it is hard to find convenience foods without sugar. It did take some time to retrain my taste buds to not expect super sweet flavors, especially in drinks. The biggest challenge was to switch from artifically sweetened drinks to unsweetened flavored seltzer. The seltzer didn't have any taste, it seemed, until about a month after I gave up the fake sugar. Now it tastes delicious. The sweetest thing I eat on a regular basis now is fruit.

I do eat dessert once every week or two, down from 8 or 10 servings per week. I'll never eat artificial sweeteners again.

I wasn't overweight to begin with, but I lost 10 lb, my brain isn't so foggy, and I wake up rested. And my dentist approves also.

 

[CATCH17]

I have a bad sweet tooth.

The only thing that helps me is a lot of fiber.

I try to eat healthy but I don't eat small quantities.

During the week I may eat a 700 calorie lunch but it's a lot of meat and vegetables. Like an entire frozen bag of veggies that would feed 2 or 3 people. You can eat a massive amount of veggies and it's very few calories.

Fruit, veggies, smoothies, yogurt with a little honey and fruit in it.

Those are my weapons against sugar cravings and it helps a lot.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I do eat dessert once every week or two, down from 8 or 10 servings per week. I'll never eat artificial sweeteners again.

I wasn't overweight to begin with, but I lost 10 lb, my brain isn't so foggy, and I wake up rested. And my dentist approves also.

You ain’t about this sugarless life homie. Stop playing games.

 

[Rockport]

I'm contemplating going without added sugar for a week and then seeing how I feel. By "added sugar," I mean any time they add sugar to food as part of a recipe or as an additive. In other words, the sugar that naturally is present in foods like cantaloupe, watermelon, grapes, etc., is cool, but you don't eat things like cake, brownies, etc., or drink things like soda pop. It sounds hard to do, but not impossible. I've watched various Youtube videos by people who have done it, and every one of them reports health benefits like better energy, better quality sleep, and more. Some of them decide to just keep it up and make it a regular thing. Here's a video on how dumping the sugar is supposed to help your health.

I've already thrown alcohol out of my life, and it was worth it. I knew I needed to call it quits when I made the cover of a tabloid in Italy dry humping the Venus de Milo statue, an act that cost me $20K and spending 30 days in an Italian jail and being banned for life from that country. ..... Just kidding, that didn't really happen, but I did have good reasons for throwing alcohol out of my life, just not as colorful. I'll be 11 years sober on January 16th.

Maybe my health would be a whole lot better if I threw sugar out. .... I wonder if honey counts. I like honey in my Earl Grey tea.

I'm curious if anyone here has given sugar the heave-ho, and what your results have been.

I did a long time ago. At least refined sugar. Now use Agave syrup for sweetner in coffee or tea and coconut sugar or pure cane sugar for everything else which is rare. Never have had a sweet tooth.

 

[Sammy]

You ain’t about this sugarless life homie. Stop playing games.

Even the heart association says occasional small amounts are fine. And Reverend Conehead was contemplating one week without sugar, not giving it up completely.

Completely cutting out foods often leads to bingeing on those very foods. It's rarely successful in the long run. We tend to be more successful if we cut back drastically on the bad stuff, but still know we can have that food again, just not as often or as much.

 

[CouchCoach]

I'm contemplating going without added sugar for a week and then seeing how I feel. By "added sugar," I mean any time they add sugar to food as part of a recipe or as an additive. In other words, the sugar that naturally is present in foods like cantaloupe, watermelon, grapes, etc., is cool, but you don't eat things like cake, brownies, etc., or drink things like soda pop. It sounds hard to do, but not impossible. I've watched various Youtube videos by people who have done it, and every one of them reports health benefits like better energy, better quality sleep, and more. Some of them decide to just keep it up and make it a regular thing. Here's a video on how dumping the sugar is supposed to help your health.

I've already thrown alcohol out of my life, and it was worth it. I knew I needed to call it quits when I made the cover of a tabloid in Italy dry humping the Venus de Milo statue, an act that cost me $20K and spending 30 days in an Italian jail and being banned for life from that country. ..... Just kidding, that didn't really happen, but I did have good reasons for throwing alcohol out of my life, just not as colorful. I'll be 11 years sober on January 16th.

Maybe my health would be a whole lot better if I threw sugar out. .... I wonder if honey counts. I like honey in my Earl Grey tea.

I'm curious if anyone here has given sugar the heave-ho, and what your results have been.

Until I have the very same experience in Italy that you made up, naw, I ain't quittin' drinkin'.

 

[CouchCoach]

I did not have a sweet tooth but I developed cravings for comfort foods after dealing with some life changing events and that included pie. Five years ago, I retired and moved to the Hill Country in Texas. Within that Hill Country lies a little town of 6K known as Marble Falls and within that town lies The Bluebonnet Cafe and within that Bluebonnet Cafe lies pie. They are the most famous place in Texas for filling your pie hole with, you guessed it, piiiiiieeeeee!

You know that little angel that sits on one shoulder, always looking out for you and trying to help you make good life decisions? She doesn't like pie. On the other hand, or shoulder, sits that little devil that is more interested in doing fun things and speeding up the battle for your soul and he is a pie loving fool. Mine just happens to have a refined taste for cigars, whiskey and anything else the medical community tells us we need to use in moderation. Why my little devil loves pie for dinner, why fill your tummy with useless vegetables, fruit and other nutrients and take up pie room?

But I wasn't just happy with pie, cookies needed my attention as well and if Pepperidge Farm didn't want me to eat all those different cookies, why did they make them? I couldn't let them down.

So, I am now heavier than I have ever been and no one to stay in shape for or ask "where is that last piece of apple pie" in my life so I have allowed myself to sell myself that I deserve this. Life threw me a curve so I need to keep swinging at everything on the naughty food list. I gave myself permission to get out of shape and indulge my hedonistic proclivities and not only was my waistline and energy level damaged, the real casualty was my willpower.

Timely thread for me, Rev, as I begin to reclaim one thing that I have allowed to slowly subside and not just with food but anything else I have deemed myself worthy of because the easiest sales I've ever made have been to me. Why should I deny myself?

Know what happens when willpower gets shoved aside? It gets pushed back everyday you don't use it until one day you realize you don't need it. Then you begin not to like yourself, lose respect for yourself and worst of all, accept what you've become, weak.

I am fighting the battle you're talking about right now but not just to lose weight and feel better physically but to regain my willpower and pride in myself for I have not been proud of me. When we engage that willpower to deny ourselves something we really do not need but want has convinced us that is a need, we gain so much more.

It's not just about sugar, it is about control over our lives.

 

[Londonboy]

Seems like it would be very difficult, unless they were to add aisles in supermarkets, like the glucose free ones.

You want an entire aisle dedicated to sugar free on top of the one that's already dedicated to glucose free?

How big is Your supermarket?

 

[Sammy]

You want an entire aisle dedicated to sugar free on top of the one that's already dedicated to glucose free?

How big is Your supermarket?

Pretty sure he meant gluten free aisles.

 

[Jammer]

I'm a type 2 diabetic. I quit sugar 3 years ago. I've been on keto since then. Never felt better and my blood work is always in the "perfect" range. I occasionally miss my breads and desserts, but it's fleeting. Sugar is just bad for the body, especially the amount Americans are subjected to.

 

[Runwildboys]

You want an entire aisle dedicated to sugar free on top of the one that's already dedicated to glucose free?

How big is Your supermarket?

It's big. Plenty of room for a sugar free aisle. Didn't realize I'd written "glucose".

 

[Runwildboys]

Pretty sure he meant gluten free aisles.

Yes, I did. Thanks.

 

[kskboys]

Until I have the very same experience in Italy that you made up, naw, I ain't quittin' drinkin'.

You kiddin? Makes me want to drink more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kskboys]

I did not have a sweet tooth but I developed cravings for comfort foods after dealing with some life changing events and that included pie. Five years ago, I retired and moved to the Hill Country in Texas. Within that Hill Country lies a little town of 6K known as Marble Falls and within that town lies The Bluebonnet Cafe and within that Bluebonnet Cafe lies pie. They are the most famous place in Texas for filling your pie hole with, you guessed it, piiiiiieeeeee!

You know that little angel that sits on one shoulder, always looking out for you and trying to help you make good life decisions? She doesn't like pie. On the other hand, or shoulder, sits that little devil that is more interested in doing fun things and speeding up the battle for your soul and he is a pie loving fool. Mine just happens to have a refined taste for cigars, whiskey and anything else the medical community tells us we need to use in moderation. Why my little devil loves pie for dinner, why fill your tummy with useless vegetables, fruit and other nutrients and take up pie room.

But I wasn't just happy with pie, cookies needed my attention as well and if Pepperidge Farm didn't want me to eat all those different cookies, why did they make them? I couldn't let them down.

So, I am now heavier than I have ever been and no one to stay in shape for or ask "where is that last piece of apple pie" in my life so I have allowed myself to sell myself that I deserve this. Life threw me a curve so I need to keep swinging at everything on the naughty food list. I gave myself permission to get out of shape and indulge my hedonistic proclivities and not only was my waistline and energy level damaged, the real casualty was my willpower.

Timely thread for me, Rev, as I begin to reclaim one thing that I have allowed to slowly subside and not just with food but anything else I have deemed myself worthy of because the easiest sales I've ever made have been to me. Why should I deny myself?

Know what happens when willpower gets shoved aside? It gets pushed back everyday you don't use it until one day you realize you don't need it. Then you begin not to like yourself, lose respect for yourself and worst of all, accept what you've become, weak.

I am fighting the battle you're talking about right now but not just to lose weight and feel better physically but to regain my willpower and pride in myself for I have not been proud of me. When we engage that willpower to deny ourselves something we really do not need but want has convinced us that is a need, we gain so much more.

It's not just about sugar, it is about control over our lives.

I fight it every day. There is a common addiction to sugar that runs hard through one side of my family. I am eaten up w/ it. I can eat a dozen doughnuts in the blink of an eye. It's never easy to forgo sugar. For me, it's an addiction much like nicotine or cocaine. How do I deal w/ it? Luckily I got a decent metabolism from the other side of my family, and luckily I chose a career field where I'm out and moving all the time.

Oh, and my guardian angel is drunk.

 

[CouchCoach]

I fight it every day. There is a common addiction to sugar that runs hard through one side of my family. I am eaten up w/ it. I can eat a dozen doughnuts in the blink of an eye. It's never easy to forgo sugar. For me, it's an addiction much like nicotine or cocaine. How do I deal w/ it? Luckily I got a decent metabolism from the other side of my family, and luckily I chose a career field where I'm out and moving all the time.

Oh, and my guardian angel is drunk.

Luke, I am your guardian angel.

 

[Runwildboys]

Luke, I am your guardian angel.

CC on one shoulder, and Otis on the other....ksk is doomed.