Sugar junkie.

arknor said:
they use organic pesticide/nutrients rather than man made chemicals I thought
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Correct.

Arsenic, Ricin, Phytohaemagglutinin and many many more chemicals are extremely toxic but are not man-made. Nature is really good at killing humans, so just because it occurs in nature doesn't mean you should be fine with it being on your food. Especially if it has been put there to kill stuff in the first place...

cheesyboy said:
If you read the standards, it pretty much does mean pesticide-free, in fact.
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It doesn't at all mean that. It means free of synthetic pesticides, which in many cases are more selective, safer and in far lower concentrations than their "organic" counterparts like Nicotine Sulfide. Environmental persistence is another factor.

But hey, it is "organic" so cannot possibly be bad, right?
 
Liquiduk said:
Just water! Jesus eat something :p
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lol!

I used to have 2 teaspoons of sugar in my tea, then weaned it down to 1. One day I forgot to put it in and only realised halfway through the cup. That was 2-4 sugars less per day by accident from that point onwards. :)
 
DRZ said:
Correct.

Arsenic, Ricin, Phytohaemagglutinin and many many more chemicals are extremely toxic but are not man-made. Nature is really good at killing humans, so just because it occurs in nature doesn't mean you should be fine with it being on your food. Especially if it has been put there to kill stuff in the first place...



It doesn't at all mean that. It means free of synthetic pesticides, which in many cases are more selective, safer and in far lower concentrations than their "organic" counterparts like Nicotine Sulfide. Environmental persistence is another factor.

But hey, it is "organic" so cannot possibly be bad, right?
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"organic" in its wider meaning would include those pesticides and poisons but actual EU regulation and, more tightly, the UK certification bodies don't allow them.

You won't find Nicotine Sulfide used in the UK organic industry. Or at all in the UK food production industry.

When we're talkign about organic food, we're not talking some wild west "all nature is good" crackpot industry - we're talking about a heavily regulated set of growing standards. It's a certification, not a dictionary definition.
 
ChroniC said:
Can't have to much fat either, I am working on a diet of less sugar and less fat. Looking to rid myself of stomach buldge.
So only meat and veg and small amount of carbs. It's fricking killing me.
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I lost it all by cutting out all sugar and eating fatty foods, veg and meat. Nothing wrong with fat but it depends where its coming from, basically just eat food that has been the least processed.

Also you'll need to exercise, it seems mad to me that people go on diets, lose some weight by starving themselves then eventually go back to where they started. If you're going to do it then its as much an attitude change as anything else. Exercise will give you more energy by increasing your metabolism and converting some of that white fat to brown fat.

Fat is a necessary part of our diet and seems to be quite misunderstood. Sugar is turned straight into stored fat as it takes very little to have a strong insulin response.

Also the 5/2 diet is great if you can hack it.
 
yeah sugar is addictive, really is.

I have been off it for year+ but recently i've slipped, indulging more than couple times a month....

It's so easy to fall back into it's scary. My advice? when you feel a craving eat something filling like oats etc and you'll not be craving it any more.
 
Curio said:
OP, have you tried actually substituting heroine for the sugar? :)

I had a similar thing years ago. Decided I was drinking way too much Coke/Pepsi so decided to cut it out completely. The thought of being addicted to it never crossed my mind at the time, so I wondered why I suddenly started behaving extremely irritably and had thumping headaches all day :o
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I was drinking between 6 and 8 cans of Pepsi Max a day. I stopped two months ago, awful headaches for a week and didn't feel normal for a couple of weeks after the headaches stopped. Now I'm fine and I'm never touching caffeine ever again.
 
Mr-White said:
It's surprising how much sugar people consume, especially when 6 tea spoons a day is supposed to be the healthy limit.

MW
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Couple of days ago at work, I was in the kitchen making a drink in the morning. Someone comes in and makes some lovely smelling porridge. Then she just gets the container the sugar is in and pours loads on! She never even used a spoon!

I was just like "errr... okay then."
 
I tend not to add sugar to my food or drinks these days. I add some sweetener to my porridge in the morning but outside of that I don't take sugar and have not really drunk sugared drinks for years, outside of the odd mild barley water squash once in a blue moon. Ive also replaced fruit juice drinks with fruit. I do take the odd pudding and I do have the odd bar of choccy but this has got more rare as I get older. Ive also tried to cut out white bread (hard) and white pasta in any volume.
 
Nothing wrong with Dark Chocolate, less sugar more Fibre...don't really need to drop, unless you hate bitter tastes, but then you're dumb tbh, cause dark chocolate is objectively better. ;)
 
Eat tons of fats to make up for the lack of sugar.

Acquire a copy of Cereal Killers

and watch this
 
I was a huge sugar junky, I did the same as you in 2010 and avoided anything with a lot of sugar in it. Moved to only drinking water.

I managed to stick to it for around 1 to 2 years and lot a lot of weight, I feel better and now I allow my self a little bit but nothing like what I was eating before.
 
Trying to give up sugar and keep a low fat intake is incredibly difficult, though I have done it.

From experience, I'd recommend keto as a far better option. That way you can still get energy (from fat) but weight loss is if anything easier.
 
ChroniC said:
Can't have to much fat either, I am working on a diet of less sugar and less fat. Looking to rid myself of stomach buldge.
So only meat and veg and small amount of carbs. It's fricking killing me.
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Dietary fat doesn't make you fat a surplus of calories/energy does. Wake up.

Begbie said:
Just don't bother and acctually count your calories if you want to lose weight?

Or you know, cut out stuff from your diet add other stuff and randomly guess.
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:D This.

Jim99 said:
Trying to give up sugar and keep a low fat intake is incredibly difficult, though I have done it.

From experience, I'd recommend keto as a far better option. That way you can still get energy (from fat) but weight loss is if anything easier.
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Plenty of low sugar, low fat wholefoods are readily available.

A more sensible option, than creating a food avoidance and quite unsociable and often un-adherable diet (for many but not all) is to not unnecessarily restrict carbohydrate intake and to just be accountable for your calorie intake and responsible with your food choices and sugar consumption, if this bothers you.

If you find yourself to be someone that just naturally is averse to a moderate or high carb intake then fair enough but to actively avoid them in the belief it's the only way to healthily and sustainably lose fat is silly.
 
im kinda doing the same dieting thing, i just have a carrot or apple when i feel hungry and then have a meal with as little carbs as i can make it, and on the weekend i have one day of normal stuff as a cheat day,
 
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