Newbie, kicking SUGAR

treste

Hi
Just spotted this thread after entering my stats. I am 55, live in Roleystone, Westerm Australia. I am doing the Michelle Bridges 12 week challenge and hope to drop a minimum of 10kg over the 12 weeks. So far doing welll as lost almost 3 kg in week 1. I am recovering from a total knee replacement some 7 weeks now, so I am new at returning to exercise. Finding that a bit of a challenge! I am also kicking sugar out of this house, after seeing a Jamie Oliver documentary about the effect of sugar on the UK nation, I want to see if my grown up children can do the same, does anyone else feel the same?

emhunter

Sugar is the devil...for me. However that is not the case for everyone.

Are you diabetic or pre-diabetic? If so, you definitely should limit your intake.

When you say kick sugar what exactly do you mean...just no added sugar or everything? Are you hoping to eat low sugar forever? Or is this just temporary? Unless you have a medical condition, you usually don't need to focus on sugar to lose weight.

scolaris

I now eat very little added sugars. It seems hard at first but gets a lot easier. Really sugary things start to taste weird! First, eliminate all the 'hidden sugars' in stupid things like bread & pasta sauce etc. Then get selective. If I'm going to eat an occasional dessert I want it to be really really special. Also, I don't really bake any more either. I like to dip fruit in dark semisweet chocolate if I'm serving a dessert to guests. Give yourself the benefit of purging convenience sweets from your pantry, fridge or freezer. Keep gorgeous local & seasonal fruit! Nothing can compete with that. I personally feel 100% better with limited sugars. So try it & see what happens.

scolaris

PS: you only control what you yourself eat. Let your overall health & vitality win over your adult children. Nothing is worse than someone prosyletizing something they haven't even perfected in themselves!

GaleHawkins

@treste welcome to MFP forums.

I have had three hip replacements but I am told the knee takes a lot of work because it is a more complex joint.

A year ago I cut out all grains and all carbs over 50 grams daily for pain management and it worked out well in my case.

After just reading William Davis MD' Wheat Belly Total Health (2014) it may be the grains that are doing some of us in the most because that is the source of most of our sugars it seems plus some chemicals that mess with our hormones.

Best of success in recovering from the knee replacement.

refuseresist

You can eat eggs, marmite, some salad maybe corn or rice cakes. I know I tried to work it out but it was impossible, if you eat meat you might be ok