Sugar Detox

Eat real fruit, skip the fruit juice and your body will still detox off the fake stuff and the cravings will stop.You also gotta cut out white grain/bread and pasta. The stuff turns to sugar as soon as you eat it and your body reacts the same. Eat WHOLE grains. It took about 4 days for me and the weight loss process has been so much easier now that the cravings are gone. Good Luck!

Biochemistry, where art thou?

I think what the OP means is maybe refined/added sugar. The kind that's addictive and found in fruit juices, chocolate, ice cream, cookies, cake... I've been on a sugar detox a few times (I ate fruit to curb any cravings and avoid sugar crashes). Takes 2 weeks before you don't crave it anymore, but it is totally worth it.

I guess I don't see the point in not eating any sugar just to go back and eat it again, doesn't that defeat the purpose? Like do you think because you are going on this sugar detox, that it is going to remove some unwanted/unseen sugar that's your body is holding onto in some magical spot? Why not just stop eating the types of food you don't want to eat, and stick with that? You are putting yourself through something that makes you feel like crap for pretty much no reason at all.

I think what the OP means is maybe refined/added sugar. The kind that's addictive and found in fruit juices, chocolate, ice cream, cookies, cake... I've been on a sugar detox a few times (I ate fruit to curb any cravings and avoid sugar crashes). Takes 2 weeks before you don't crave it anymore, but it is totally worth it.

for the love of everything that is holy…NO

you can eat ALL the sugar and be in a calorie deficit and lose weight …

sugar is not evil ….

look up twinkie diet if you do not believe me…

I read this as "light up a twinkie"
Damn, now I want a fire roasted twinkie.

Anyone else start with trying to detox your body from sugar? I am starting day three of detox and I am suffering headaches, shaking hands, crankiness and generally want to curl up in a corner and make the world go away.

I did first two days strict, not even fruit or juices but I woke up this morning and couldn't handle it so I drank 8oz of fresh orange juice. I am feeling a little better now, but I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that.

I guess I am just rambling, but I would love to find others in this situation.

Your body literally runs on sugar, and if you consume no sugar your body will simply manufacture sugar from the other things (protein, fats, starches) you consume.

So it's literally impossible to detox from sugar. The concept makes no sense.

I am going to go out on a limb and blame Krinkles the clown.......people now fear sugar:

I recently went on a 30 day sugar fast but didn't have any of the withdrawal symptoms that you speak of. I originally saw a fast a couple did on the morning news so I figured I would give it a try. My problem is that I used to eat a lot of sweets and drink a lot of teas. I can't speak for anyone else and everyone's body is different but in the first two weeks I was down 7.5lbs and after the 30 days I was down a total of 22lbs. It was hard for the first week but after that it became easy. My body honestly feels so much better. I get sugar in other foods that I eat but the sweets and other obvious choices were doing me in. I continued it for another 30 days with having my cheat days once a week and Im at a total of 39lbs of weight loss. I was at 47 until I started putting too much sugar back into my diet. Im not a nutritionist but I know this kick started my weight loss for sure. In some of my cravings it was also a mind thing. I got the sugar free cookies from murrays, sugar free syrup, and my favorite is the sugar free jello chocolate pudding. Some of them have the "sugar water" additive but I just know they work for my cravings. Good luck in whatever you do. Just an fyi, but I continued my at least 2 miles a day of cardio. If I would have cut out fast food who knows how much I would have lost.

I recently went on a 30 day sugar fast but didn't have any of the withdrawal symptoms that you speak of. I originally saw a fast a couple did on the morning news so I figured I would give it a try. My problem is that I used to eat a lot of sweets and drink a lot of teas. I can't speak for anyone else and everyone's body is different but in the first two weeks I was down 7.5lbs and after the 30 days I was down a total of 22lbs. It was hard for the first week but after that it became easy. My body honestly feels so much better. I get sugar in other foods that I eat but the sweets and other obvious choices were doing me in. I continued it for another 30 days with having my cheat days once a week and Im at a total of 39lbs of weight loss. I was at 47 until I started putting too much sugar back into my diet. Im not a nutritionist but I know this kick started my weight loss for sure. In some of my cravings it was also a mind thing. I got the sugar free cookies from murrays, sugar free syrup, and my favorite is the sugar free jello chocolate pudding. Some of them have the "sugar water" additive but I just know they work for my cravings. Good luck in whatever you do. Just an fyi, but I continued my at least 2 miles a day of cardio. If I would have cut out fast food who knows how much I would have lost.

It wasn't cutting sugar in general that made you lose 22lbs, it was being in a calorie deficit from all the treats and tea you stopped ingesting. :grumble:

I'm trying to completely cut out refined sugars for a while so that I can eventually add "treats" back in from time to time and learn some self control. But I'm eating four servings of fruit a day and it has really helped me (as of now: banana, orange, strawberries). Would I love to tear into a bag of reese peanut butter cups??? Of course, but I've had years of eating peanut butter cups. The oranges I've been eating lately have really been satisfying my sweet tooth...as much as an orange can.

I know there are some people on MFP that are against cutting out something, but for myself, I have no self control and truly believe in sugar addiction. I love sweets. And I can't eat just one cookie here and there. I want to eat it all. I will skip meals to eat sweets. I would also feel the need to eat sweets daily.

My doctor said it best: you can eat snickers bars only and lose weight if you stay in your calorie range, but you'll feel like crap. Just a few days of no refined sugars (except in a few teaspoons of peanut butter) has made a difference in how I feel for sure. I just feel better, less crappy. So I have the motivation to keep going. Good luck to you!


**Let me edit and add: when I say refined sugars I mean desserts, sweets, white sugar in my coffee, cokes, ice creams, etc. A bag of chips can sit in my pantry untouched but a bag of m&ms will be gone in a heartbeat. If I eat one sweet thing, I'll immediately want another.