Anybody who has gone off sugar completely ???

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!

I am trying to go completely off sugar. I have been doing low-carb, so I have cut out everything with sugar except sometimes a spoonful of peanut butter or something with natural sugars. I do not crave sweet stuff anymore but am addicted to diet soda. That is my next break! Eeeeeeekkk!!

I don't know if anyone said this yet, but if you're going to use honey you should buy local honey. It will help with your allergies, if you have any. Honey also won't spoil, so you don't have to feel bad about buying a big glass jar of it from your farmer's market! :flowerforyou:

I love using honey in my coffee & tea. Tastes so much better than just sugar!

I do think your title is a bit misleading though about going off sugar completely... Carry on!

I've gone off sugar completely and feel much better. The only sweetener that I occasionally use in a natural stevia.

Although limiting your sugars is a fantastic idea as us Americans eat way to much of it. Going completely off sugar is a very bad idea. Your brain needs sugar to function and cutting out sugars force your body to convert some fats to sugar (the whole adkins crap). Discipline is a better goal than diet manipulation.

On the other hand, converting to honey while cooking etc is a fantastic idea. The more natural you can make your diet, the healthier it will be for your body. Another thing I do is when I get a sugar craving, I fulfill it with a natural fruit instead of a sugar beverage or something like that. Fruits generally maximize good sugar taste with less calories. They also have all of the good things that come with eating naturally, like the anti-oxidants and fibers.

There are small amounts of sugars in practically all plant-based foods, including even leafy green vegetables. So unless you're switching to a strictly carnivorous diet, more than likely you're getting more sugar than you may realize.