How sugar affects me
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Congrats on learning Something about how you and your body and your brain work. Now work with that! Congrats.0
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »Congrats on learning Something about how you and your body and your brain work. Now work with that! Congrats.
Seriously.... it was one time of eating sugar. Doesn't work like that. If OP had eaten some fruit, the same thing should have happened. Ridiculous.0 -
Yes, it MUST have been the sugar!
Lets completely ignore the potential of having a sensitivity to wheat, gluten, soy, or any other common allergen that might have been in the food.
I have a sensitivity to soy. When I eat soy, I get a reaction much like you do.
But lets not think critically. It's definitely the sugar.
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There is a documentary on child obesity on netflix that shows a lot of evidence that the food guidelines were tampered with and are allowing for more sugar consumption than healthy. According to scientific study the actual amount of suger an individual should consume is 10% of your intake calories. I suggest you all take a look.
Interestingly enough, I got my glucose number down from the pre-diabetic range and back into the normal range, and I eat quite a bit of sugar, both naturally occurring and added. More than the 'recommended' 10% for sure. The only change I made to my diet was I started eating at a calorie deficit and lost poundage. Also been successfully maintaining for over two years now. Go figure.
My glucose stats:
2012: 120 range (at almost 180lbs)
2013: 89 (as I began transitioning into maintenance)
May 19, 2015: 86 (maintaining an almost 60lb loss for two years now)
Rest of my blood work is great too, blood pressure great, no health problems/medications etc etc.0 -
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I was eating a porkchop while watching the Warriors lose last night. I've never had porkchops watching a Warriors game. Never again.
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FitnessTim wrote: »For the past few weeks I have been restricting my intake of sugar. I am not just talking about "added sugar" but sugar in general. While there may be differences in sugars (fructose, glucose, etc) it is more practical for me to treat them as the same.
Yesterday I was out with my family and in the spirit of having a good time I had suggested we get some Cinnamon Delights from Taco Bell. If you haven't tried them, don't - they're are delicious. It was an experiment to test the theory that all calories are basically equal.
With my first taste of sugary treat, my ability to control my eating diminished. I ended up eating 10 of them when I had only planned on eat 2 or 3. They are small but loaded with sugar and fat.
Soon after, I felt my energy and motivation to move dropped. I felt terrible and had trouble focusing. I believe it was the sharp contrast to a low sugar diet I was noticing. When I consumed sugar on a regular basis I probably felt that way all the time and thought it was normal.
Some people get really defensive about the studies that show that sugar is unhealthy or even toxic. They imply that there is a unfair attack on sugar. Well I was just as skeptical but I chose to try and reduce my intake of sugar and see what happens. What I've experienced appears to confirm what the studies have shown and that is that sugar has both long term and short term negative effects on the body and mind.
Some argue that sugar is an enjoyable part of life. For me that feeling of succumbing to mindless craving is terrible. The short term and long term effects of high sugar consumption are not enjoyable.
I can eat sugary food without then binging on them quite easily. This is just a long winded post about your own lack of self control and how you're trying to pass it off as something else rather than just admit you wanted the nice, tasty thing and then you wanted all of the nice, tasty things. Blaming sugar will teach you nothing about portion control.0 -
[/quote]I was eating a porkchop while watching the Warriors lose last night. I've never had porkchops watching a Warriors game. Never again.
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Oh no! Is my gelato the reason the Blackhawks lost? Because a Stanley Cup isn't worth giving up the Talenti goodness.0 -
You people are laughable.-1
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mgmckenzie11 wrote: »You people are laughable.
Oh? Do tell.-1 -
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mgmckenzie11 wrote: »You people are laughable.
Nah, some of us are a bit further along in this process than others are though, and we've figured out what actually works.0 -
I am giving up refined sugars. Bye bye Starbucks frapps! That was 3 weeks ago. I cannot drink them anymore too sweet and I eat fruit instead. Only thing I learned was too much refined sugar makes me ill and I like apples more. Oh not as bloated but no idea why.0
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Talenti has the best container of any frozen treat.I was eating a porkchop while watching the Warriors lose last night. I've never had porkchops watching a Warriors game. Never again.
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Oh no! Is my gelato the reason the Blackhawks lost? Because a Stanley Cup isn't worth giving up the Talenti goodness.
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mgmckenzie11 wrote: »You people are laughable.
Most of these people who disagree with what you posted have laughed their way to losing their extra weight, and gotten healthy. I didnt know that was considered laughable.0 -
In...just so I can get a flag.
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mgmckenzie11 wrote: »You people are laughable.
Most of these people who disagree with what you posted have laughed their way to losing their extra weight, and gotten healthy. I didnt know that was considered laughable.
Nah it's ok, obviously we're doing something right
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Laughter is the best medicine -> Laughing burns extra calories -> They're negating all their extra sugar intake by being laughable.Sarasmaintaining wrote: »mgmckenzie11 wrote: »You people are laughable.
Most of these people who disagree with what you posted have laughed their way to losing their extra weight, and gotten healthy. I didnt know that was considered laughable.
Nah it's ok, obviously we're doing something right
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Maybe we are. But many of us are also fit and healthy without having to demonize sugar or fall for mocumentaries.Oh? Do tell.
How are these flagable, let alone spam flags.
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Thank you good sir. My day is now complete.-1
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ceoverturf wrote: »In...just so I can get a flag.
Begging for flags, that's when you know we've made it
Some of us aren't pre-disposed to attracting flags. Begging is the only way we can get 'em!-1 -
Your lack of self-control says nothing about sugar.
You over-indulged in a food which you were restricting. No wonder you felt awful. It would be the same if you stopped eating meat for a few months and then had a giant steak.
The only conclusion to be drawn from you 'experiment' is that you need to learn moderation.
Yes, this is my reaction too.
I find that one reason it's bad for me to think of restricting foods is that I am more likely to have a desire to overeat the food when I do eat it, especially if I plan to go back to restricting. It's the "better eat it all before it goes away again" thing.
I've found restrictions to be helpful for specific short term reasons in the past--for example, when I first started this process and was dealing with emotional eating. The last time I tried a restriction, though--when I cut out added sugar in January--it somewhat backfired, perhaps because I'd been doing restricted calories for a while and was starting to either need a break from that or just getting to a point where I was ripe to get neurotic about food.
Anyway, I decided to do a maintenance-focused eating plan that was less rigid than I'd been (and higher in carbs also), and found that loosening up some actually seems to help me fight against the temptation to fall back into my emotional eating. But the underlying issue for me IS the psychological reasons. Blaming specific foods makes no sense at all to me.
In any case, I try to and think I eat in a quite healthy manner, and I don't think it would be healthier to get more rigid and cut out foods. I think thinking of food in that way would, for me and many others, be psychologically harmful or at least counterproductive. I'd rather try to think logically about whether my overall choices in a way are nutritious and balanced or not and if not to think about what I could add to change that or how to fix that going forward. NOT make every cookie some kind of dramatic thing.0 -
I was eating a porkchop while watching the Warriors lose last night. I've never had porkchops watching a Warriors game. Never again.
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutritionOh no! Is my gelato the reason the Blackhawks lost? Because a Stanley Cup isn't worth giving up the Talenti goodness.
Heh, I was just about to post something similar.
I got dragged to a bar to watch the end of the game on Saturday, and I did not go to a bar last night. Clearly, I failed the Blackhawks.0 -
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ceoverturf wrote: »In...just so I can get a flag.
If only I could achieve all my goals as easily as you achieved that one. Congrats!
Edit: oh, I see I was beaten to the sentiment. Guess that flag was fast! Oh, well, I'm leaving it.0 -
I am type 2 diabetic, and I eat 1 smoothie every day late in the afternoon. It helps to fill in some of the allowances for MFP. I have noticed that I can cram a lot of fruit in my 16 oz smoothie ( I consider it a meal) as well as kale and avocado, and still be within my sugar and fat guidelines. My A1C is down below 7.0, and my doc says to keep doing what I am doing. I, also use Atkins products, but mainly the chocolate delight protein shakes. I have to avoid things like chocolate and saltwater taffy and icecream because I have no control when it is in the house. I simply do not buy them anymore. My Atkins Endulge chocolate coconut bar steels my wool, and has sugar alcohols.0
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I tend to eat low to moderate carb because otherwise I have a tendency to binge eat. If you restrict sugar and then dump a whole lot of it into your system like you did you will feel like crap. Your body is now kicked into overdrive pumping out insulin. It's called a carb coma for a reason.0
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