Stop sabotaging your body! Easier said then done.
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gracehannah wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Just about anything other than onomatopoeia is easier said than done.
Do what works for you, but counting calories achieves a lot for many people.
I couldn't agree more! It helps when you're counting the right calories like how many in almonds and sweet potato rather than how many calories in icecream and chocolate
Ooooh, I see. As opposed to the wrong ones?
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From offal I'd imagine. I think I remember reading somewhere that the Low Carb group did a meat only challenge a while back.I'm always asking this and am NOT trying to start a fight, but am genuinely curious. If you cut out fruits and veggies, where are you getting your vitamins and minerals?
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Isn't coffee a processed food?0
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IWinoGelato wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
To be fair, the OP did say she was cutting out sugar - which my initial reaction too was to inquire if that meant she was no longer going to eat fruit.
It's true I should have specified I still eat sugars when they come in their natural forms e.g. Strawberries yum!0 -
TI guess if one wants to go without sugar, that's fine with me - we all make our own choices for one reason or another. What I did not get is this:gracehannah wrote: »I decided to redownload this app, not to count calories cause that achieves nothing but just so this time round I can keep accountability while trying to now factor in exercise.
Unless I am misunderstanding or misreading, but counting calories ..... does achieve...
cause that achieves nothing for my body specifically*
Should have specified, my apologies
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Alluminati wrote: »gracehannah wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Just about anything other than onomatopoeia is easier said than done.
Do what works for you, but counting calories achieves a lot for many people.
I couldn't agree more! It helps when you're counting the right calories like how many in almonds and sweet potato rather than how many calories in icecream and chocolate
Ooooh, I see. As opposed to the wrong ones?
Sorry, in my own opinion, right calories to me is calories contained in natural food. I view counting the wrong calories as calories that are found in processed foods.
Again only my personal opinion and what I've experienced in my body 0 -
@winogelatogracehannah wrote: »It's true I should have specified I still eat sugars when they come in their natural forms e.g. Strawberries yum!
"Because then we inevitably get the discussion of biochemical pathways and how your body can't tell the difference b/w sugar from an apple a strawberry and sugar from a snickers. Then someone brings up the straw man debate of, 'of course you can eat a diet of all snickers and lose weight, but you won't be healthy', and someone says, 'who said anything about eating 1500 cals of snickers'.
Sigh. Another day on MFP achieving nothing except triple digit weight loss, good blood pressure, and good blood work by counting the wrong calories..."
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lemurcat12 wrote: »
That it is I inserted it in brackets to infer that I understand it's still processed, it's the only thing I couldn't give up.
I'm not a 100% purist but for the sake of coffee I'm ok with that!0 -
DeguelloTex wrote: »
@winogelatogracehannah wrote: »It's true I should have specified I still eat sugars when they come in their natural forms e.g. Strawberries yum!
"Because then we inevitably get the discussion of biochemical pathways and how your body can't tell the difference b/w sugar from an apple a strawberry and sugar from a snickers. Then someone brings up the straw man debate of, 'of course you can eat a diet of all snickers and lose weight, but you won't be healthy', and someone says, 'who said anything about eating 1500 cals of snickers'.
Sigh. Another day on MFP achieving nothing except triple digit weight loss, good blood pressure, and good blood work by counting the wrong calories..."
You're doing it wrong.
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I am always over on my sugar intake my chart says, I can't get away from sugar...I eat alot of fruit in my diet but NOT bad sugars like candy etc. Any good words for me?0
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I wish when people making these quitting sugar threads, they would up front state what exactly they mean by quitting sugar. I'm one of those silly people who think "quitting sugar" means "quitting sugar", not "quitting sugar from foods I deem junk/bad/not worth the calories". It's almost as bad as people saying they are quitting carbs when what they really mean is quitting White Foods.0
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I wish when people making these quitting sugar threads, they would up front state what exactly they mean by quitting sugar. I'm one of those silly people who think "quitting sugar" means "quitting sugar", not "quitting sugar from foods I deem junk/bad/not worth the calories". It's almost as bad as people saying they are quitting carbs when what they really mean is quitting White Foods.
People are saying they are doing low carb and mean no milk and yoghurt? I have been for a while on MFP, but have not seen this one yet!0 -
[quote="People are saying they are doing low carb and mean no milk and yoghurt? I have been for a while on MFP, but have not seen this one yet![/quote]
I am doing a lower carb diet...and I did cut out cow's milk and switched to unsweetened almond milk - but I still eat plenty of plain Greek yogurt. I just measure stuff, makes it easier to count things accurately.0 -
gracehannah wrote: »lemurcat12 wrote: »
That it is I inserted it in brackets to infer that I understand it's still processed, it's the only thing I couldn't give up.
I'm not a 100% purist but for the sake of coffee I'm ok with that!
There are many processed foods that I think are good for me and that I wouldn't give up, personally. Coffee is one (well, sort of). Others include greek yogurt and smoked salmon. I also think foods like cheese and dried pasta (I can make pasta, but don't see why the purchased kind would be worse) or canned tomatoes (certainly out of season, although right now I have tons of fresh) and the like can make cooking healthy meals easier and are not harmful, so I wouldn't go out of my way to cut them out. (I actually did once upon a time, which is why I've thought this through.)
And if we start getting into what's natural, it's not natural for me to be able to eat a banana in Chicago (they have to be carted in from far away) or broccoli in January, for that matter. Or, perhaps, as humans it's natural for us to try and do all this (and so cheese would be natural too, yay).0 -
I wish when people making these quitting sugar threads, they would up front state what exactly they mean by quitting sugar. I'm one of those silly people who think "quitting sugar" means "quitting sugar", not "quitting sugar from foods I deem junk/bad/not worth the calories". It's almost as bad as people saying they are quitting carbs when what they really mean is quitting White Foods.
The abuse of the term carbs on this forum is the worst.
So often it seems people use "carbs" to mean foods that are a mix of fat and carbs, like cookies, and not other foods that are basically all carb, like fruits and vegetables.
(For the record, I mostly don't mean low carbers, who at least seem to have bothered learning what carbs actually are, although even they sometimes use "carbs" for stuff like cookies and french fries which may have as many calories from fat.)0 -
I'm glad it has worked for you OP in the 8 weeks that you have done it. I'm not quite sure what you have cut, but it is obviously working well for you so far.
However my long term health is not being hurt by my moderate intake of foods with refined sugars and I enjoy them and my weight has been maintained for well over a year so I will continue doing what works for me.
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What is wrong with the calories in my icecream? I get my calcium, some protein, vit A, vit b2, vit b12.0
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WinoGelato wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
@winogelatogracehannah wrote: »It's true I should have specified I still eat sugars when they come in their natural forms e.g. Strawberries yum!
"Because then we inevitably get the discussion of biochemical pathways and how your body can't tell the difference b/w sugar from an apple a strawberry and sugar from a snickers. Then someone brings up the straw man debate of, 'of course you can eat a diet of all snickers and lose weight, but you won't be healthy', and someone says, 'who said anything about eating 1500 cals of snickers'.
Sigh. Another day on MFP achieving nothing except triple digit weight loss, good blood pressure, and good blood work by counting the wrong calories..."
You're doing it wrong.
@DeguelloTex I am so happy that I am at work and was able to find this...
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gracehannah wrote: »TI guess if one wants to go without sugar, that's fine with me - we all make our own choices for one reason or another. What I did not get is this:gracehannah wrote: »I decided to redownload this app, not to count calories cause that achieves nothing but just so this time round I can keep accountability while trying to now factor in exercise.
Unless I am misunderstanding or misreading, but counting calories ..... does achieve...
cause that achieves nothing for my body specifically*
Should have specified, my apologies
Ooooh you're a special snowflake that digests foods differently than the rest of us. Good to know!0
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