My doctor says, "No sugar for a month" (Dec-Jan 17th)

Aim4skinnyjeans
Aim4skinnyjeans Posts: 45 Member
edited February 8 in Food and Nutrition
My doctor says, "No sugar for a month"...is she trying to kill me...it's tis the season to eat sweets.... In reality, I know I need to at least try it...I'm sure she's right, but it's December. It's the time when there's peanut butter fudge, Christmas crack and Christmas cookies galore. Did I mention that I'm a wannabe baker? How will I ever survive for even this month? ~Feeling so sad...:( I need to motivate myself to do this, but it's gonna be so HaRD!!!:(:brokenheart:
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  • fitandskinnygal
    fitandskinnygal Posts: 487
    Why did she say no sugar for a month? Does it have to do with weight loss or health reasons?
  • Aim4skinnyjeans
    Aim4skinnyjeans Posts: 45 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
  • WhisperAnne
    WhisperAnne Posts: 453 Member
    I don't have processed sugar in my diet. Not since 2005. Sugar is the reason for your weight gain. It's evil but so yummy!
    When I first cut sugar I lost 20 pounds in a month.
  • eliana313
    eliana313 Posts: 1
    I really needed to hear that! Christmas Crack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smokin:
  • sue_stef
    sue_stef Posts: 194 Member
    I was given two months by my doc to try to diet control my blood sugar and get my blood pressure under control or I have to go on meds.
    I have several reasons to not want to go on meds so I am extra motivated to change everything permanently

    if you are a wanna be baker then you will be happy to know that there are lots of things you can do to make tasty food just healthier
    cutting out refined sugar is not that hard you have to want it to happen enough
    I too love to bake cookies cakes breads cup cakes candies you name it
    and food I love food
    my love of food now has me looking for other options that are better for me if I can do it you can too :wink:
    I know it is not easy but you can make it happen trust me I wish I had worked harder a couple years ago I can never go back I will always be a diabetic but I can make things better for myself so I am around longer for my kids
  • Cindyinpg
    Cindyinpg Posts: 3,902 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.



    It has nothing to do with it other than someone pushing an agenda.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.

    ^This. And check out this link to help see if maybe you are eating more than you think.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.



    It has nothing to do with it other than someone pushing an agenda.

    Agreed and I also do not track sugar and have lost a few pounds...
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.
    This.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    In...

    ...for an inevitable mature discussion about sugar.
  • Hoppymom
    Hoppymom Posts: 1,158 Member
    I struggle with sugar a lot. I have regained 30 pounds of the seventy I lost. it's like heroin for me. Gotta have it. Honestly if I can stay off it for 3 days the cravings go away. Then something happens, a wedding, birthday, family reunion etc and I'll think I can have one piece and I am back at 500-1000 calories a day from sugar and my weight goes up. I can eat perfectly other than the sugar and I just can't break the addiction. Working on that special demon right now. I wish you the best of luck on this. It can be done. Just not sure how I did so well the first time I did it.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    I struggle with sugar a lot. I have regained 30 pounds of the seventy I lost. it's like heroin for me. Gotta have it. Honestly if I can stay off it for 3 days the cravings go away. Then something happens, a wedding, birthday, family reunion etc and I'll think I can have one piece and I am back at 500-1000 calories a day from sugar and my weight goes up. I can eat perfectly other than the sugar and I just can't break the addiction. Working on that special demon right now. I wish you the best of luck on this. It can be done. Just not sure how I did so well the first time I did it.

    Wait..you eat 500-1000 calories a day? Or that's what happens when you eat chocolate? :huh:
  • gmallan
    gmallan Posts: 2,099 Member
    Ouch, they sure picked a tough month for you to try and give up sugar. Maybe your Doc is doing this because they know you'll crack and eat a little bit of the evil white stuff. An under-handed attempt to get you to eat sugar in moderration you could say :)
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Ouch, they sure picked a tough month for you to try and give up sugar. Maybe your Doc is doing this because they know you'll crack and eat a little bit of the evil white stuff. An under-handed attempt to get you to eat sugar in moderration you could say :)

    :indifferent:
  • Hauntinglyfit
    Hauntinglyfit Posts: 5,537 Member
    I don't have processed sugar in my diet. Not since 2005. Sugar is the reason for your weight gain. It's evil but so yummy!
    When I first cut sugar I lost 20 pounds in a month.

    You lost weight because you cut calories. Eat spoonfulls of sugar all day, stay under your maintenance calories an you will still lose.
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    In...

    ...for an inevitable mature discussion about sugar.
    and also with you
  • _TastySnoBalls_
    _TastySnoBalls_ Posts: 1,298 Member
    In...

    ...for an inevitable mature discussion about sugar.
    and also with you

    hopping on this train with you guys
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    In...

    ...for an inevitable mature discussion about sugar.
    and also with you

    hopping on this train with you guys
    Inb4 "Sugerz iz da debil".
  • Shuuma
    Shuuma Posts: 465 Member
    When I was 16, I was diagnosed with severe hypoglycemia. My doctor also told me to stop all sugar immediately for a month and see how my sugar responded. I instantly felt better and stopped passing out in class. My sugar was hovering in the 20s when I stopped eating sugar and in that month, rebounded to the healthier 80s.

    The good news is that I dropped 15 lbs. that month. The bad news was that I wanted sugar all the time, but that changed over the course of the month and I learned to do without.

    The new good news is that there are many tasty sugar-free snacks available these days.

    (If it's for another reason besides blood sugars, I missed it in the posts and apologize.)
  • sloth3toes
    sloth3toes Posts: 2,199 Member
    In...

    ...for an inevitable mature discussion about sugar.

    Ditto. And on a side note.... Does anyone else get that really 'let-down' feeling, when you click on on topic in 'MY TOPICS' and it leads you back to the main forum index, indicating that the topic has been nuked? The latest one to disappear from MY TOPICS was " 5 day nutrisystem kit. " It's sad, but I guess it's the circle of forum life.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.

    1000 calories a day from sugar is insane and doesn't leave room for healthy macro ratios. It sounds like the Doc is just using sugar as a way to restrict calories and get smarter macro balance, which based on the OP's comments, is a pretty reasonable thing to try.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,641 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    Probably not the best prognosis for a Dr to take considering reducing sugar and losing weight have similar outcomes and will never be able to properly diagnose if it actually was the reduction/elimination of sugar. Not to bright imo.
  • Cindyinpg
    Cindyinpg Posts: 3,902 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.
    I would get a second opinion. I don't track sugar and have lost 125lbs in 16 months. I don't get what sugar even has to do with it.

    1000 calories a day from sugar is insane and doesn't leave room for healthy macro ratios. It sounds like the Doc is just using sugar as a way to restrict calories and get smarter macro balance, which based on the OP's comments, is a pretty reasonable thing to try.
    It wasn't the OP who commented on having that much sugar.
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    OP Never stated what the blood work actually showed, Maybe the Doctor has information we don"t have.
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    sugar was the 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll...

    ...probably.
  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    I had some bld wk done because I can't seem to lose weight. Instead I keep gaining and it's really frustrating. So, she suspects sugar is the problem and wants me to cut it out for a month as well as only eat 1200-1500 calories a day and more of a low carb/high protein ratio. It's gonna be so hard for me.

    Your dr sounds like an idiot. Second opinion.
  • 1234terri
    1234terri Posts: 217 Member
    I like your Walter White hat! Live here in Albuquerque, home of Breaking Bad!!
  • 1234terri
    1234terri Posts: 217 Member
    sugar was the 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll...

    ...probably.

    hawhaw.
  • VBnotbitter
    VBnotbitter Posts: 820 Member
    OP Never stated what the blood work actually showed, Maybe the Doctor has information we don"t have.

    Well apart from the obvious blood sugar levels indicating diabetes, in which case the dietary advice would be around carbohydrates not just sugar, I can't think of a single blood test for which the results would require stopping sugar.
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