Sugar Addict here with a question...

ja20102004

I find it hard too love my sweets but try to find something that can be substituted like a muffin or I put alittle jam on my toast to fulfil my sweet tooth.

nvmomketo

LaGata8484 wrote: »

As most everyone has said, you need sugar in your diet. Just try getting most of your sugars from fruits and vegetables, and cut back on the processed sugar/empty calories.

This isn't technically true. Your dietary requirement for sugar is zero, whether it comes from sugar or a bag of table sugar.

kandisn7

I am limiting my sugar intake too, because I was diagnosed as insulin resistant. This is my own personal experience, and many on here will disagree, but my body does react differently to fruit vs a candy bar. When I eat fruit, I don't crave more, I don't get that crash, and I still lose weight. So I am avoiding processed sugar, and it is working well for me. I feel great, and I'm losing weight. But I'm eating fruits freely and honey sparingly.

lemurcat12

BeastofBodmin wrote: »

DEBOO7 wrote: »

Cut out complex carbs and processed foods. Processed foods are full of sugar (used as a preservative), nitrates and other nasty stuff.
I started by banning rice, pasta, bread, potatoes and my downfall of ice cream! After that I kept adjusting and modifying my eating.
Opt for fruit and vege that have a high fibre, low carb profile.
Avocado, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, courgette, silverbeet, cabbage.. theme here is 'above ground vege'.
Monitor fruit intake... berries are king. Fruit is not essential every day - I have about 125gms berries 3-5 times a week and sometimes add rockmelon, a few grapes or mango as a treat. Stay away from dried fruits!
Nuts such as macadamia, almond, pecan, walnut are your friends but again about moderation.. 30 grams a day is a good amount. I split that into 3 x 10 gram 'snacks'.
I have followed a low-carb way of eating for nearly three years and like to keep under 20 grams of net carbs a day.
Feel a lot healthier for it too and have lost 83lbs.

Why cut 'complex carbs' ?

Low carb dogma, I guess.

I want to know how come most of the processed foods I eat have no or almost no sugar (had some bacon that didn't have any this morning, have had smoked salmon without it (although it sometimes has a bit), cheese without it, dried pasta and oats without it. Even a pickle and some mustard without it. Weird, when I'm being told that "processed foods are all full of sugar." It's almost like that's not actually true.

lemurcat12

kandisn7 wrote: »

I am limiting my sugar intake too, because I was diagnosed as insulin resistant. This is my own personal experience, and many on here will disagree, but my body does react differently to fruit vs a candy bar. When I eat fruit, I don't crave more, I don't get that crash, and I still lose weight. So I am avoiding processed sugar, and it is working well for me. I feel great, and I'm losing weight. But I'm eating fruits freely and honey sparingly.

Just for the record, I don't disagree at all. What I would disagree with is the idea that your body differentiates between the sugar in fruit and the sugar in the candy bar, which are both basically just a mix of fructose and glucose (since sucrose is easily broken down to those). I am not at all surprised and think is common that your body would react differently to the mix of things in the fruit (sugar+fiber+water) to the mix of things in the candy bar (largely fat+sugar, maybe a bit of salt and protein too, plus chocolate (that special taste beyond the fat and sugar)). Fiber slows down the sugar digestion some, and the fruit is delicious (IMO) but doesn't tend to be hyperpalatable to most the way candy bars can be (especially if they are ones you particularly like and would choose to eat). I am not that into candy bars (I actually can't think of one I'd choose over a piece of fruit), but I certainly do have that distinction in my reaction to sweet baked goods that I enjoy if I snack on them mid day vs. a piece of fruit (except that I don't get a crash even from the baked goods if I otherwise have a healthy balanced diet).