Anybody who has gone off sugar completely ???

I just saw that you are only eating 1000 calories a day. You NEED more girl! That's probably why you are plateauing. Especially if you are exercising.

use legit stevia (there is a lot of crap stevia out there). it's zero calorie and several times sweeter than sugar. It doesn't have the same effect as any other sweetener out there. It's from a plant.

I stay away from actual sugar unless it's fruit and even then, I only have fruit immediately after a workout and with a protein source so i don't get sugar spikes.

stevia . . thats next on my list gr8!!

Truvia is essentially Stevia, except they add something called Rhebiana to it that makes it less bitter. Rhebiana is nothing more than a fruit alcohol I beleive. I started out on "sweet leaf" Stevia and it was okay but alll of the straight Stevia I have tried has a bitter aftertaste to it...Truvia does not. I dont know how they do it but it is very hard to notice the difference between sugar and Truvia after a week of using it. Just my opinion though, others may differ.

There is an awesome (albeit, lengthy) video about how our bodies metabolize sugars and the effects. It gets into the bio-chemistry of it all and makes some really great points...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Two words.................................I WISH!

http://www.honey.com/honey-at-home/honey-nutrition-information/

Here's your facts honey oh I mean your honey facts. LOL enjoy

Total Antioxidant Content of Alternatives to Refined Sugar
Journal of the AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION
2009; 109:64-71

Background: Oxidative damage is implicated in the etiology of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other degenerative disorders. Recent nutritional research has focused on the antioxidant potential of foods, while current dietary recommendations are to increase the intake of antioxidant– rich foods rather than supplement specific nutrients. Many alternatives to refined sugar are available, including raw cane sugar, plant saps/syrups (eg, maple syrup, agave nectar), molasses, honey, and fruit sugars (eg, date sugar). Unrefined sweeteners were hypothesized to contain higher levels of antioxidants, similar to the contrast between whole and refined grain products.

Objective: To compare the total antioxidant content of natural sweeteners as alternatives to refined sugar.
Design: The ferric-reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) assay was used to estimate total antioxidant capacity. Major brands of 12 types of sweeteners as well as refined white sugar and corn syrup were sampled from retail outlets in the United States.

Results: Substantial differences in total antioxidant content of different sweeteners were found. Refined sugar, corn syrup, and agave nectar contained minimal antioxidant activity (0.01 mmol FRAP/100 g); raw cane sugar had a higher FRAP (0.1 mmol/100 g). Dark and black–strap molasses had the highest FRAP (4.6 to 4.9 mmol/ 100 g), while maple syrup, brown sugar, and honey showed intermediate antioxidant capacity (0.2 to 0.7 mmol FRAP/100 g). Based on an average intake of 130 g/day re?ned sugars and the antioxidant activity measured in typical diets, substituting alternative sweeteners could increase antioxidant intake an average of 2.6 mmol/day, similar to the amount found in a serving of berries or nuts.

Research Article Category: Honey and Antioxidants

there is hope.

I studied art, and i make my living partly from drawings & photoshop and i also have my own little business making cakes. one job leaves me looking at the human body and manipulating it, the other leaves me surrounded by sweet foods all day! no wonder i have body image issues!

i was one of those people who couldn't be in the same house as chocolate without eating it. the only chocolate that my brain accepted as off-limits was the chocolate i used for work. i remember devouring a whole tin of Cadbury's Roses because i would just pick them off one by one. i couldn't stop. i remember buying chocolate for someone's birthday, and then eating them all and having to buy another box.

i used to go on a diet and tell myself i had to quit chocolate, but of course any diet built on never eating chocolate again is doomed to failure because you will eat chocolate again in your life. i had to learn moderation. in the beginning of my diet i was eating 1750 calories a day. a typical breakfast would include some oats and a mars bar.

it was a high sugar diet, but i was staying within my calories/carbs & fat so i lost weight. after a while the anxiety of "you can never eat chocolate again" went away, because i realised that i could have the chocolate and be thin, i just couldnt devour vast quantities of it in one go.

i also started to realise that if i had chocolate with a meal i would be hungry again in a couple of hours. soon i started making better choices. i could still have the chocolate if the craving got really bad, but if i wasnt craving it i would just go with a high protein option to stay fuller for longer.

after 3-4 weeks, chocolate stopped "talking" to me. these days i can have a few bars in a drawer somewhere and not even think of them. im now 17 weeks into my diet and i have no anxiety surrounding chocolate. if i do eat some, i don't feel guilty either.

so, maybe there is hope.

So many problems with this post and this thread. The sugary nature or not of honey is the least of your worries. Please search the forum for "in place of a road map 2.0" and start feeding your body.

hmmmm:ohwell:
Well I've got me a squirty bottle of honey :bigsmile:
So I'm gonna experiment . . .
and keep u guys posted . . .
See right now Im on a sorta plateau so if substituting sugar with honey cud help I'm game . . .
:drinker:
also any tips on going sugar free

If you are at a plateau - why not look at how many calories in total you are consuming and not try to pin it on one specific food?


bcos im doin about 1000 cals/day so i cant go lower than that> The idea is to improve the quality of the calories I take in
so substituting empty calories with more wholesome ones (something like that)
:bigsmile:

One word...TRUVIA! This stuff is amazing..it even has the crunchy texture of sugar. I literally consume zero added sugar now. Add it to my oatmeal, coffee, Greek yogurt, etc.

Still a processed food, developed and owned by Coca Cola and Cargill.... Since I vote for healthy food with my dollars, I won't be buying that!

Just use stevia, then!