Sugar addiction

Glaucus said:
Dont, why do you need a pudding every day.
There still high in sugar, you are better giving up sugar totaly for say teo weeks, before rein troducing some, to break the cycle.
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Is that possible? It's inbred in me that you have a pudding after a main meal.

I'll give it a go.

I was going to replace the sweeteners with honey in my tea but I think I'll just have one sweetener instead now.

Thanks for all the other suggestions. I've bought some honey and some crunchy peanut butter (Whole Earth no added sugar). I also got some cream crackers to have as a snack. Is that a no no? What other crackers could I get to go with a bit of honey or peanut butter?

The reason I'm doing this is not because I was getting massively overweight. I did notice my waistline expanding though. It's just that I've been addicted to sugar from a kid. I could eat cheesecakes and drink Pepsi like they were going out of fashion. I just sense too much sugar has had other effects on my health like my mood and state of being.

I can already notice my stomach flattening out after only week of massively reducing my sugar intake. I use to struggle bending over to tie my shoe lace before. :o

Finally, I was going to grab a packet of dates to snack on. Are they something to avoid?
 
My wife is from Salford and everything in here life is sugar coated, don't know why you lot tup there need to cover everything in sugar, she used top go to bed with a glass of pop, now she has fillings x 10
 
Everything in moderation is fine. Dates are good, also bananas. Just try and have three well balanced meals a day and minimise snacking. If you do feel hungry, drink water and maybe have a banana. If you feel like you haven't got enough energy throughout the day then then have a bigger breakfast or lunch. I'm probably like you in that I often like something sweet after a meal. I just have fruit or a bit of chocolate. If I don't have either of those I sometimes just have a teaspoon of honey :p

Exercise will probably help with the cravings too.

I would never have sweetners because I don't like tricking my body. I'd rather just have the real sugar and work my diet around that.
 
I'm actually doing well resisting granulated sugar and chocolate/biscuits. I still haven't touched them. They were my main weakness and the vast majority of my sugar intake was from them.

It's actually much easier than I thought it would be. I've lost a ton of flab from around my stomach and I'm also sleeping much better.

Almost caved in and bought some kit-kats in Tesco last night before remembering how well I was doing. I'm still eating a little bit of sweet stuff mainly porridge with a bit of honey, rice pudding or the odd cracker with peanut butter.
 
Sugar is damn addictive. Sugar & fat together is even more so. Think about nature, almost no food source contains both? Meat: protein + fat, veg: protein + carbs generally, avocados: fat, coconut:Fat.

Sugar is hugely addictive, but also one becomes accustomed to it. Once you have spent a few weeks without, you will start noticing how sweet other stuff is, like fresh peas etc.

Also watch the sweetener, it may make you hungrier, your body releases insulin (which pushes sugar from the blood into cells) in response to anticipation of food, sweet taste and the food actually being in your small bowel etc. Thus if you eat something sweet tasting, you spike your insulin, lower your blood sugar and then feel damn hungry.

Now complete the life upgrade by doing a 3 or 4 day weight lifting program. 2 or 3 hours out of your week for a huge benefit.

Well done on dodging the kit kats, keep that **** out of the house.
 
Don't agree with that article at all(thats a bit strong, as some of what she says is right, but then goes and contradicts it), it only addresses people with the mentality of lets listen to what ever the current fad diet is.

Calories are not just calories and there are very much differences to how your body reacts to calories.

Shes right in saying sugar isn't to blame for peoples choices.
 
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