Sugar is not your friend part 2

Sugar is not your friend.

Please everyone join us in battling this insidious enemy. We just tell our stories, everyone jump in if you have something that will help someone. (Or just lurk.)

It's the shortest month and only one holiday....okay, so it's Valentines Day. Tell your significant other you want jewlelry.

Not chocolate or flowers.
Last year I bought myself a "Chocolate Pearl" ring that I love (the pearl is iridescent brown.) I didn't gain weight and it didn't die. Win / win. It was last January that I began to banish sugar from my life. For me, the only thing that works is abstinance from all sugary snacks. I do have 1/4 cup Kashi Go Lean in the mornings - 4g cane juice. I eat whole fruits - no juices. And I don't go crazy reading bread labels, because pretty much all bread has some form of sugar, be it sugar, brown sugar, cane syrup or cane juice, fructose, or honey. I buy 100% whole wheat bread with the lowest sugar I can find. But I don't eat much bread. One or two slices daily.
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Here are the Simple Carbs to avoid if you are trying to read labels:

Simple Carbs:

White / brown sugar, honey, agave nectar, corn syrup, maple syrup, sorghum syrup, molasses.

Dried fruit, sweet / ripe fruit (bananas, pears, figs, dates, raisins, sweet melons...), licorice.

Fruit juices (apple juice), canned fruit (peaches, mixed fruit).

Manitol, sorbitol, xylitol, and other "...tol" variations, maltodextrin, stevia.

Sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, dextrose, galactose, trehalose, and other "...ose" variations.

Candy, chocolate, pop, donuts, cakes, cookies, sweetened cereal & granola, jam, marmalade.

Alcohol

from: http://www.acu-cell.com/gi.html
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I have many articles I've found, I'll post bits and pieces of them here and there.
The best resources are YOU. The ones fighting the good fight day in and day out, learning and living while trying to balance family, job, lack of time, and abundance of sugar. EVERYWHERE. You can resist it.

Here are some of the high point from last month:

~ Moderation works for some people, and not for others
~ Planning ahead of time for a sweet item is good. You haven't "deprived" yourself entirely, but you don't plunge into a binge.
~ Somehow, Black Bean Brownies are tasty
~ The Meaning Of Life is not in the fridge (esp the whipped cream can)
~ Emotions will cause you to eat sugar. Why? Brain chemicals similar to the ones produced and released when one does drugs are the same brain chemicals released when eating sugar in quantity
~ We "punish" ourselves by secretly eating sugars and other unhealthy choices
~ From Lori "Day 1 of back on track. Detox big time. No groceries in the house. Had a protein shake. Went to the store. No kidding, I was shaking and feeling terrible from lack of food and lack of sugar, it's been so part of my life the past 2 weeks. Hubs walked into the commissary after his haircut with Taco Bell and I wanted to attack it. I didn't. I continued to chomp my gum like my life depended on it."


~Nail polish is sugar-free


Join us and share your journey. I learned last month that those late night binges on sweets can be caused because your body stops producing insulin between 10PM-ish and 3AM-ish. A teacher on this thread shared that with us, and she learned it from a diabetic student. You never know who you help by sharing a story.

Cheryl


old thread from last month:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/74303-sugar-is-not-your-friend-january-challenge
(and I can't change my signature.......I msged Mike about that)