SUGAR QUESTION!!

I personally track my sugar and then I look at whether I was over due to good things like fruit or unhealthy options like candy. As long I'm over due to the healthy foods then I don't stress

I like sugar.

which just increases your awesome factor.

Lots of contradictions in these posts! Great discussion . Would love some comment from the nutritionists at MFP.

Cutting out sugar is possible if that's what you want. I was forced into it because I was on the verge of diabetes. Of course it was difficult at first. I did the South Beach diet for 2 weeks and then went off of it and went to a nutritionist for help with meal planning.My nutritionist guidelines were to never exceed more than 3 times grams of carbs compared to grams of protein in any one meal or snack. I eat a low sodium. low carb diet and managed to lose 180lbs. I eat try to eat 100g protein. 100g carbs and 50 g fat each day. Since i have reached my wt goal I am starting to add in a few more carbs. Check out my food diary

You do realize you are losing weight solely because you've cut calories, right? If you've gone from (for example) 200 grams of carbs a day to 50 grams a day, that's cutting 600 calories a day. If you had cut 75% of your protein or fat consumption, you would've had the same results.

Haven't watched Fat-Head, but any documentary that recommends taking supplements instead of eating actual food is 100% wrong. Calories make people gain and lose weight, not sugar or fruit.

No, I have actually increased calories, but I have lowered insulin by lowering carbs in any form.

Fat-Head doesn't advocate taking a vitamin instead of fruit, that's my suggestion because fruit has lots of sugar and vitamins... sugar is the devil and vitamins are good so how do you get vitamins without sugar.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYlIcXynwE

Well, in that case let me contact Area 51, because if you really increased your calories (how you did that when you practically eliminated an entire macronutrient group from your diet, I don't know) and lost weight, then you obviously must be an alien from another planet, as human biology doesn't work that way. Also, insulin has NOTHING TO DO WITH FAT STORAGE. The human body is storing fat 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no matter what your insulin level is. The human body also burns fat 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no matter what your acute insulin level is. If high insulin levels cause weight gain, then why is WEIGHT LOSS a symptom of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes? Insulin's job (well, one of it's several hundred jobs) is to transport glucose and nutrients to muscle tissue and organs for processing, energy use, and repair and maintenance. Also, insulin signals the body to shift to anabolic mode (muscle and tissue building/repair) instead of catabolic mode (muscle and tissue breakdown.) Fat storage is a completely separate event, handled by different systems.

So why does acute fat storage go up, and acute fat burning go down as soon as you eat, and insulin levels rise? BECAUSE YOU JUST ATE FOOD. The human body is wired to use the food you eat for energy first, and rely on stored fat for energy during fasting periods between eating. Even without insulin rising, you will down regulate stored fat burning after eating. Of course, the only way to eat without a large increase in insulin levels is to eat mostly fat. So while your body isn't burning stored body fat, it's burning fat that you just ate, hence people being convinced that eating low carb burns more fat (duh, obviously if you eat more fat, you will burn more fat, not really rocket science to understand that.)

Again, calories are the thing that matters for weight control, macro nutrient composition is irrelevant for weight control. Macros matter a bit for overall body composition (along with proper exercise,) but not for weight gain/loss.

I actually cut out all fruit from my diet in order to reduce my sugars, I am slowly introducing them back. Right now its an apple a day, next who knows, maybe something crazy like oranges.