Suger free for 4 days, what a difference!

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I've been a sugar junky for as long as i can remember but 4 days ago after watching a Lecher by Dr Robert Lustig i have to say i feel a different person it incredible. I recommend everyone trying it for a few weeks.

P.s no caffeine or sweeteners either.
 
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rjbell said:
I've been a sugar junky for as long as i can remember but 4 days ago after watching a Lecher by Dr Robert Lustig i have to say i feel a different person it incredible. I recommend everyone trying it for a few weeks.

P.s no caffeine or sweeteners either.
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Good for you :thumbs:

How about complex carbs...which are ultimately turned to sugar by the body?
 
viv1969 said:
Good for you :thumbs:

How about complex carbs...which are ultimately turned to sugar by the body?
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Yes i mean refined sugars sucrose in other words.

I've switched all my grains to brown and everything else is the same.
 
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rjbell said:
Yes i mean refined sugars sucrose in other words.

I've switched all my grains to brown and everything else is the same.
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Watch the taters too. And pasta.
 
viv1969 said:
Watch the taters too. And pasta.
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pasta is brown too, but i'm not trying to cut carbs. I'm eating exactly what i want for 2 months minus the sugar, and see if a lose weight. He suggests that getting fat is nothing to do with to many complex carbs or to much fat its refined sugar. I bodies do not know what it is, thus does not know what to do with it. It also blocks a hormone that tells you when you are full (this is one thing i've really noticed, i used to always feel hungry) Its a very interesting video i recommend a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
 
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So, even though i only drink black tea having 2 sugars everytime is no good? I love sugar too!! I have lost 3 stone in a year but cutting back on my portion sizes and by not eating after 6pm at night and not before 9am in the morning.
 
Raincloud said:
So, even though i only drink black tea having 2 sugars everytime is no good? I love sugar too!! I have lost 3 stone in a year but cutting back on my portion sizes and by not eating after 6pm at night and not before 9am in the morning.
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Well done for losing so much weight. I've been losing about a quarter of a pound a day but i don't expect this to carry on.

I'm eating what a please as long as its protein with everything i eat even if its snacks, which is usually peanut butter on homemade rye soda bread. I had chips twice, crisps, sausages including chorizo, bacon and a shed load of cheese! ha
 
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Well I must admit Robert after the Heart attack just over a month ago, I have cut out about 90% of my usual sugar intake, and yup feeling the benefits of it :thumbs: As for my sex drive, I can drive for miles looking for it now :lol:
 
neil_g said:
No sugar or caffeine?

Ahahahabahahahajajajaaahhhaaa..
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Ive found it much easier than I thought because you are not denying youself other treats like a bag of chips or crisps etc. Im not a coffee drinker though just tea which is now redbush tea.
 
I'm a self-confessed sugar junkie.

My water has to have orange squash in it to sweeten it. I need to eat chocolate at least twice a week to keep me sane. I always hunger after a sweet treat for dessert rather than fruit. At university, I used to eat sweets on a daily basis. Sugar was a huge part of my life.

Then, whilst trying to have a clean diet when weightlifting, I stop eating sugary stuff. No squash in my water - just plain water. No sugary meals or snacks. No chocolate. That last bit was hard. For the first week it was tough. It eased off over the next two weeks and by the end of three weeks, I was "sugar free". No cravings for sugary snacks/sweets/chocolate. Didn't miss it. Didn't want it.

The problem for me has always been staying clean off sugar. Invariably a situation will arise where I'll eat a dessert or similar, say at a restaurant, and then it all starts again.

It takes willpower to come off sugar. It takes even stronger willpower to stay off.
 
neil_g said:
Caffeine is the only thing keeping me upright :D
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I'd be catatonic without it too and before anyone says it I do not have sugar in it or anything else as far as I can manage.

The problem I have is overcoming the catalepsy first thing in the morning to make a cup of coffee. :bonk:
 
I gave up the cigs, now I have heard that is the next hardest addiction to break next to heroine! But I can't get off the sugar!! So I'll say that sugar addiction is just as bad as a nicotine addiction. [Though I am still getting my nic-kick in e-cigs, couldn't do it without]

I don't eat much sweets or chocolate at all, very rarely in fact. BUT, I take 3 heaped spoons of sugar in tea and coffee, and I'd have 10+ cups per day :/

I need to get that down, a LOT.

I'm same with water, I need a flavour in it. Lately I've been forcing myself to drink just pure still water, I find if it's ice cold it's a lot easier. Can't drink it straight at room temp. So from now I am keeping a couple of 2 ltr bottles on the chill in the fridge at all times. And making sure to drink a glass or two a few times per day. If I could kick the sugar, or at least cut down severely - and stick to the water, I think I'll start to feel a lot better.

My cholesterol was through the roof a while back, hence quitting the smokes, and have been cutting down a lot on the fried foods also. Cholesterol is down a good bit now, but my weight, is not.
 
Can't really imagine what it's like giving up sugar, because I can't stand anything sweet. Sugar in tea/coffee makes me gag; so do sweets, chocolate, fizzy soft drinks, most cakes and so on. Don't know why, but I didn't like any of these things when I was a kid either. My wife's much the same.

Wish I could say the same for nicotine. I've cut down a lot but struggle to give up, probably because I don't really want to.
 
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MartynK said:
Can't really imagine what it's like giving up sugar, because I can't stand anything sweet. Sugar in tea/coffee makes me gag; so do sweets, chocolate, fizzy soft drinks, most cakes and so on. Don't know why, but I didn't like any of these things when I was a kid either. My wife's much the same.

Wish I could say the same for nicotine. I've cut down a lot but struggle to give up, probably because I don't really want to.
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Its the hidden sugars in processed food that can be a problem, until you start reading labels you dont know.
 
The guardian facebook page sent out a post yesterday '20 videos that will change your life' and the lecture above coincidently was on the list. Its certainly changed mine.
 
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Its the hidden sugars in processed food that can be a problem, until you start reading labels you dont know.
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Yeah, I know, but I was mostly referring to taste rather than health. I don't think we eat a lot of processed foods though. What do you include in that?
 
MartynK said:
Yeah, I know, but I was mostly referring to taste rather than health. I don't think we eat a lot of processed foods though. What do you include in that?
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Cereals, condiments, jams, syrups, some canned foods such as baked beans, most breads, jars of sauces, Ready Meals, Some crisps, Pizza's, Obviously cakes and biscuits, Pastrys, Yoghurt, some cured meat and the biggy alcohol, basically everything someone else has made for you!:)
 
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rjbell said:
Cereals, condiments, jams, syrups, some canned foods such as baked beans, most breads, jars of sauces, Ready Meals, Some crisps, Pizza's, Obviously cakes and biscuits, Pastrys, Yoghurt, some cured meat and the biggy alcohol, basically everything someone else has made for you!:)
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OK, thanks. I think we're pretty safe :) We rarely, if ever, eat any of these things and neither of us drinks alcohol at all.
 
MartynK said:
OK, thanks. I think we're pretty safe :) We rarely, if ever, eat any of these things and neither of us drinks alcohol at all.
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Can i be personal and ask you if you're are overweight?
 
We've been using Now Foods Stevia (imported from iherbs) for three years and never miss sugar.
 
I gave up smoking 3 weeks back and am smoking ecigs, have cut my nic intake right down and feel I have put some weight on so reading this I have started to cut down on my sugar intake, my biggest problem is that my job means I stay away a fair bit so eating in restaurants is a necessary evil for me. I really could do with losing about 4 stone, I feel this may be an uphill struggle.
 
Davec223 said:
I gave up smoking 3 weeks back and am smoking ecigs, have cut my nic intake right down and feel I have put some weight on so reading this I have started to cut down on my sugar intake, my biggest problem is that my job means I stay away a fair bit so eating in restaurants is a necessary evil for me. I really could do with losing about 4 stone, I feel this may be an uphill struggle.
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Well done for giving up the fags.

I'm not sure if you have watched the video or not but the DR suggests that a higher fat diet doesn't make you fat its the increased sugar in all our modern life foods that's making us fat. So whereas a regular diet you can't eat sugar anyway you are also watching the fat and getting hungry and grumpy in the process. So when eating in restaurants forget about fat have steak and chips if you like or even a burger, whatever you like as long as there is no sugar.
 
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problem is you still need glucose so you have to get it from somewhere.

If you have a high sugar diet you get a high and low depending on your intake. If you stop taking a lot of sugar you stop this high and low which gives the effect of being more stable after the withdrawl symptons. The problem is as soon as you have some you tend to go ape and eat 4 double deckers an afternoon :shake:
 
POAH said:
problem is you still need glucose so you have to get it from somewhere.

If you have a high sugar diet you get a high and low depending on your intake. If you stop taking a lot of sugar you stop this high and low which gives the effect of being more stable after the withdrawl symptons. The problem is as soon as you have some you tend to go ape and eat 4 double deckers an afternoon :shake:
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Ha sounds like you're talking from experience.

Thats the problem when you're are eating low carbs. This is not a low carb experiment. I can eat all the carbs a like as long as its brown so i'm getting all the glucose i need.
 
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Ha sounds like you're talking from experience.

Thats the problem when you're are eating low carbs. This is not a low carb experiment. I can eat all the carbs a like as long as its brown so i'm getting all the glucose i need.
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all depends on the carbs you are eating - long chain sugars don't have the same effect as short chain sucrose, fructose (fruit) and glucose. cutting out added sugar is what I've tried to do while not having high sugar food. its kinda worked (see above) plus exercise when I can


and yes £1 for 4 double deckers :( was soo good though :lol:
 
POAH said:
all depends on the carbs you are eating - long chain sugars don't have the same effect as short chain sucrose, fructose (fruit) and glucose. cutting out added sugar is what I've tried to do while not having high sugar food. its kinda worked (see above) plus exercise when I can


and yes £1 for 4 double deckers :( was soo good though :lol:
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I'm still having fructose in fruit which is digested with its own fibres, i'm just given up the refined rubbish.
 
rjbell said:
The guardian facebook page sent out a post yesterday '20 videos that will change your life' and the lecture above coincidently was on the list.
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Thanks for mentioning this; have since tracked it down and will look forward to watching them later :thumbs:
 
Really good to hear of anyone giving up refined sugar. I still have some sugar that are in processed foods/biscuits etc but don't add it to food and I'm lucky enough to have the time to cook just about everything from raw.

One other thing I have found seems to have a beneficial effect is eating less meat. I'm not vegetarian by a long way but it is not uncommon for there to be four or five consecutive vegetarian days and I don't miss eating meat and seem to feel less bloated/heavy after a meal.

Dave

BTW for anyone interested in diet/health and exercise I recommend the series, just ended on BBC2, called, "The Men Who Made us Thin".
 
Tringa said:
Really good to hear of anyone giving up refined sugar. I still have some sugar that are in processed foods/biscuits etc but don't add it to food and I'm lucky enough to have the time to cook just about everything from raw.

One other thing I have found seems to have a beneficial effect is eating less meat. I'm not vegetarian by a long way but it is not uncommon for there to be four or five consecutive vegetarian days and I don't miss eating meat and seem to feel less bloated/heavy after a meal.

Dave

BTW for anyone interested in diet/health and exercise I recommend the series, just ended on BBC2, called, "The Men Who Made us Thin".
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Yes it was a great show, along with the 1st series the men who made us fat.
 
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