too much sugar
Gavery1
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I'm usually under my daily calorie goal but I've noticed I go over on my sugar. Usually with low fat snacks! Even though I'm under my calories will the sugar effect my weight loss greatly? Thanks x
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Low fat is generally code for higher sugar. They need it to taste good so you'll buy it, so they just swap the fat for thickeners (like dextrose) and sugars.
I looked at your diary and it seems like you eat a lot of highly processed foods. That is where the sugar is coming from. I've noticed in my own battles with processed food/convenience food addiction that it's very difficult to lose weight and maintain the loss when you eat this stuff (like crisps, sweetened yogurts - which can be VERY high in sugar, and the like). I've had some success recently by deconstructing my favorite foods and making them myself, substituting healthy things for the fillers and other crap in processed foods. It definitely takes some research and planning, but you'll have an easier time monitoring your sugar once you start making more of your own food. As in, from scratch. I like to use a crock pot for a lot of my cooking to keep it low-prep time.
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Yes sugar will affect your weight loss.
2 things i personally know ( this is not professional statement just something i've read many times) sugar will spike up your insulin level in blood thus make you crave more sugar. More sugar you eat more your body will want it. Which will result in unnecesary binge.
Another thing to know is where your sugar comes from and its GI level (glycemic index). Food that have high GI level will digest sugar faster and more sugar you have in your blood, your body wont be able to process it and it will store it as fat.
err i dont think i am really good at explaining this but here check this out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
Bottom line is.... reduce sugar as much as possible and replace highly processed goods (sugar) with sugar that is in fruits.
Fruits have low GI which it takes your body to digest at the slower rate thus delivering low and steady amount of sugar to your blood which your body can process it as energy and not store it as fat.
Hope this helps.
Good luck
ps excuse my typos
Oh and another thing is... people say that unpocessed sugar that is stored as fat goes directly into your stomach.
so be careful 0 -
Yes sugar will affect your weight loss.
your body wont be able to process it and it will store it as fat.
Oh and another thing is... people say that unpocessed sugar that is stored as fat goes directly into your stomach. so be careful
No.
Excess calories are stored as fat. If you're eating at a 1000 calorie deficit each day but have a decent amount of sugar a day, you will not gain fat.0 -
Yes sugar will affect your weight loss.
your body wont be able to process it and it will store it as fat.
Oh and another thing is... people say that unpocessed sugar that is stored as fat goes directly into your stomach. so be careful
No.
Excess calories are stored as fat. If you're eating at a 1000 calorie deficit each day but have a decent amount of sugar a day, you will not gain fat.
as i said before, my knowledge is based on what i have read sooooo many times over and over. Maybe it is a myth but how can it all be myth when even doctors are saying these things?
quote: "Refined sugars are also bad for your waistline because your body burns them quickly, causing your blood sugar levels to first spike and then crash. This can cause increased feelings of hunger, according to David Kessler, a medical doctor and former commissioner of the Federal Drug Administration.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/510562-what-would-happen-if-you-have-too-much-sugar/#ixzz2VGZXAUi3
Of coarse when you have a high amount of sugars i certain foods you also have many carbs and more carbs you eat, wellbigger you get. So sugar is tightly related to carbs too. Cheers :drinker:0 -
Yes sugar will affect your weight loss.
your body wont be able to process it and it will store it as fat.
Oh and another thing is... people say that unpocessed sugar that is stored as fat goes directly into your stomach. so be careful
No.
Excess calories are stored as fat. If you're eating at a 1000 calorie deficit each day but have a decent amount of sugar a day, you will not gain fat.
as i said before, my knowledge is based on what i have read sooooo many times over and over. Maybe it is a myth but how can it all be myth when even doctors are saying these things?
quote: "Refined sugars are also bad for your waistline because your body burns them quickly, causing your blood sugar levels to first spike and then crash. This can cause increased feelings of hunger, according to David Kessler, a medical doctor and former commissioner of the Federal Drug Administration.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/510562-what-would-happen-if-you-have-too-much-sugar/#ixzz2VGZXAUi3
Of coarse when you have a high amount of sugars i certain foods you also have many carbs and more carbs you eat, wellbigger you get. So sugar is tightly related to carbs too. Cheers :drinker:
Doctors aren't always experts in nutrition. If you are eating a diet high in refined sugar than of course you will probably gain weight because that diet will also be a very high calorie diet without a lot of real nutrients.
Ultimately, only excess calories get stored as fat. Excess sugar doesn't. Excess carbs don't (excess carbs when you have insulin resistance can make it harder to lose).0 -
Yes sugar will affect your weight loss.
your body wont be able to process it and it will store it as fat.
Oh and another thing is... people say that unpocessed sugar that is stored as fat goes directly into your stomach. so be careful
No.
Excess calories are stored as fat. If you're eating at a 1000 calorie deficit each day but have a decent amount of sugar a day, you will not gain fat.
Wrong. Sorry. As long as we're in the business of correcting people, allow me to counter with the fact that excess GLUCOSE in the blood gets stored as fat. Though it is true that all food eventually gets converted to glucose, salts, and waste - foods already containing sugar are metabolized faster because they require less processing in the liver and, if there is no need for the fuel,you can still be what is commonly referred to as "skinny fat" - IE, you lose weight, but the harmful visceral fat will continue to accumulate as your muscles atrophy.
You may still lose weight that way, but you will be less healthy taking that approach. Science is still trying to suss out much of metabolic research, but one thing is very well documented and agreed upon: "Not all calories are created equal." That sort of food mythology is pervasive and incorrect according to a substantial body of literature on the matter.
Here are just a few (legitimate academic sources) so you know I am not just promoting new age quackery.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/3/623.short
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409338/
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa022637
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019257/
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00365510902912754
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7383/full/482027a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120202
http://jp.physoc.org/content/590/16/3633.short
http://endo.endojournals.org/content/153/8/3561.short
Another fantastic info source is the book Rethinking Thin. It takes these scholarly findings and makes sense of it for people uncomfortable with "academese."
http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Thin-Science-Loss-Realities/dp/B003R4ZGNC
Cheers.0 -
Here are just a few (legitimate academic sources) so you know I am not just promoting new age quackery.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/3/623.short
This one is about sugar and fat leading to bingeing or addictive like behaviour. No where does it mention anything about sugar turning to fat in a calorie deficit situation.
Again, doesn't talk about excess sugar in a calorie deficit turning to body fat.
This one is about the difference in losses between a low carb group of dieters and a low fat group of dieters. I have yet to read an area that states sugar caused anyone to gain as the low fat group also lost weight.
A quote from your "proof" ... "The greater weight loss in the low-carbohydrate group suggests a greater reduction in overall caloric intake, rather than a direct effect of macronutrient composition"
A study where rats were fed. Also a study that is looking at fat and sugar intake and how it affects the heart... not body fat.
This was a two week study between candy and peanuts. I can't access the full article however it doesn't appear as though the calorie intake between the subjects for those two weeks were controlled outside of giving them equal calories of either candy or peanuts. Both groups increased in weight slightly... the candy group was only 0.1kg more than the peanut group which could be explained by the candy or because peanuts will satisfy hunger better than candy. It also doesn't state if the rest of the groups diets were the same or if they were allowed to eat whatever they wanted.
This one I can't see other than the authors opinion that sugar is toxic. I'm not paying money to read the rest of this article.
Again don't have access to the full study however from what I gather this is testing brain function.
I have yet to read in this article... note article not an actual study... about proof that sugar while in a calorie deficit creates body fat.
Another fantastic info source is the book Rethinking Thin. It takes these scholarly findings and makes sense of it for people uncomfortable with "academese."
http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Thin-Science-Loss-Realities/dp/B003R4ZGNC
Cheers.
While in a CALORIE DEFICIT, sugar won't be stored as fat. I do agree with you that not all calories are created equal however in order to lose weight (provided you don't have a medical issue like insulin resistance) calories are what matter. Of course you're not going to be healthy eating 1500 calories a day of fries and coke but you could lose weight. A healthy, balanced diet is always best of course and in no way would I ever recommend someone to eat a diet full of processed sugars however it is ok to have those include. The OP asked if it was going to harm progress to be under calories but over on sugar and it won't.0 -
Thanks for the info everyone. Very interesting. I will def eat a more refined diet and cut out those bad snacks. I hope I find something good to replace them with :-)0
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Yes sugar will affect your weight loss.
your body wont be able to process it and it will store it as fat.
Oh and another thing is... people say that unpocessed sugar that is stored as fat goes directly into your stomach. so be careful
No.
Excess calories are stored as fat. If you're eating at a 1000 calorie deficit each day but have a decent amount of sugar a day, you will not gain fat.
Wrong. Sorry. As long as we're in the business of correcting people, allow me to counter with the fact that excess GLUCOSE in the blood gets stored as fat. Though it is true that all food eventually gets converted to glucose, salts, and waste - foods already containing sugar are metabolized faster because they require less processing in the liver and, if there is no need for the fuel,you can still be what is commonly referred to as "skinny fat" - IE, you lose weight, but the harmful visceral fat will continue to accumulate as your muscles atrophy.
You may still lose weight that way, but you will be less healthy taking that approach. Science is still trying to suss out much of metabolic research, but one thing is very well documented and agreed upon: "Not all calories are created equal." That sort of food mythology is pervasive and incorrect according to a substantial body of literature on the matter.
Here are just a few (legitimate academic sources) so you know I am not just promoting new age quackery.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/3/623.short
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409338/
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa022637
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019257/
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00365510902912754
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7383/full/482027a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120202
http://jp.physoc.org/content/590/16/3633.short
http://endo.endojournals.org/content/153/8/3561.short
Another fantastic info source is the book Rethinking Thin. It takes these scholarly findings and makes sense of it for people uncomfortable with "academese."
http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Thin-Science-Loss-Realities/dp/B003R4ZGNC
Cheers.
LMAO, so when you eat fat, first it turns to fat then goes through DNL to be stored as fat if not used? And what is glycogen?0 -
i am having the same problem keeping my sugars down0
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