Challenge: No sugar for two weeks

I think a lot of people knew exactly what you meant. I applaud you for enjoying the other responses. Best of luck. You are very supported.

I prefer to get my carbs from things like oatmeal, vegetables brown rice and quinona. I do not eat candy or cake except on special occasions (more cake than candy). If I am going to eat something sweet, I like it to have some good qualities (like fruit). As for completely giving up sugar? I do not think it is necessary.

Good on you and good luck with it. You get a taste for sugar just like you get a taste for salt....I cut back like you and I found I was getting terrible cravings then after a couple of weeks they went away and I found that things that hadn't tasted sweet before (like milk) suddenly tasted really sweet. It obviously doesn't work for everybody but I have found that sticking to more complex carbohydrates reduces my cravings and hunger pangs so I hope it works for you too!

Salt is required by your body, sugar not so much. I think the OP has a great idea!

"sugar is a carb....."

Yes, but it is treated differently by your body carbs from things like a potato. (look at Sugar the Bitter Truth on you tube - it's an endocrinologists explanation of how your body treats things differently). You can easily get all the carbs your brain needs from veggies.

based off a study where they injected a rat with 60% calories from straight sugar.


lustig is a moron.
St michaels hospital disproven him and his underlying reason of why we are overweight is hypercaloric. His reasoning is "We're all hypercaloric"

We don't realize how much sugar we are putting in our system. We have been on a IV bag of sugar from our mothers womb and sugar is in pretty much a large amount of the food we eat. We can make everyday choices to eat better and find support that can encourage us in your decision. So starting tomorrow here we go and I will keep you posted.

good luck - don't listen to all the trolls who jumped all over you. I assume what you mean is you are not going to have any refined sugars. that's a good thing!! to me that means no sugar in the coffee, but also not eating any "sweetened" processed goods like sugary cereals or muffins etc. I assume you don't mean natural sugars in things like fruit, veg, or even just the trace amounts in otherwise healthy stuff like bread. but if you are trying to experiment w/ super low sugar, I don't see a problem w/ that either....just know that any complex carb you eat (beans, oatmeal) will be broken down to sugar by the body anyway - but that is a healthy choice too. if you are saying you are cutting out anything that can break down to sugar, like no carbs...I think that's ok for a little while as an experiment but pls be careful (and carefully follow the guidelines given by those low-carb programs like Atkins). good luck!!

ps - I would add that, while I think the science is out on stuff like Stevia...I would ask, unless one has diabetes, what's the point of using something artificial that could be potentially harmful in place of a little natural sugar? (I don't know that you will be doing this, but just thought I'd weigh in on artifical sweeteners). good luck!

sugar is a carb.....

Do you know the function of blood sugar? What blood sugar spikes? I dont get it.

If your insulin resistance is bad because of your lifestyle. Then that is your problem. If you exercise like you should be you will not have that problem

right... because you can just out-exercise a whole bunch of terrible nutrition choices. Great advice.

Hmmmm... PMS. And I'm not playing with you, but that's interesting food for thought. I'm still sticking with cutting out the added refined sugars though. Albeit, I have been persuaded by your implicit argument that any benefit from it is more a mental discipline thing than a physiological one.

I always thought that fruits had only fructose. I stand corrected. Still, you know what I mean. Go suck a ****.