cut the SUGAR out

If you want to cut out sugar, don't use fruit or diet sweet drinks to replace sugar.
Add some chromium and zinc supplements--these will help reduce the cravings.
After two solid days of no sweet tasting food whatsoever, you should start to experience fewer and fewer cravings.
Drink lots of unflavored water.
No dairy unless its cream. No yogurt. No cereal. No oatmeal. No rice.
No fruits.
Try to eat lean protein and veggies as much as possible.
Starches will cause your cravings to come back. Its a never-ending cause and effect.
Good luck!
PS....check out Dr. Hyman and Mark's Daily Apple.
Many people successfully make this lifestyle change.

If you want to limit your sugar, avoid sweets like pies, cookies, cake, etc. If you crave something sweet, go for something healthier like fruit or yogurt.

I like ice cream and chocolate chip cookies

I just had a Wendy's chocolate Frosty. I guess I'm going to die now . . .

I like the idea of replacing sugar with fruit. For instance, I put an apple in my mug of coffee earlier. The result was that I had less coffee so my calorie intake was less than it should have been. )

This time I am trying to cut out SUGAR. By not adding sugar or eating things with so much sugar in them. Unfortunately here in America we love sugar and most things have sugar in them, but I am working on it. I am craving sweet things by the afternoon I am also feeling quite a bit more tired with out all the added sugar in my diet. This is like day two hopefully by weeks end I will be feeling alot better....

Do you have any helpful hints on how to cut sugar from my diet?

I went low carb high fat and that curbed my cravings for sweet stuff and junk food in general.

Also cutting out trigger foods for about 30 days helped with me and then I would allow it to be re-introduced as and when I wanted it, although that is seldom now.

Good luck

"Trigger food" is about as much of a BS excuse as "sugar addiction"

That's your opinion and you are entitled to it.

Is there science behind "trigger food"? Just curious.

Psychology 101 would be a good place for you to start. Basic brain structure and NT knowledge, along with a good solid understanding of human behavior will lead you to understand how habits are formed. Good luck!

Don't believe those who say that sugar isn't bad for you. It is. Your body will get the sugars it needs if you eat a balanced diet rich in whole grains and fresh fruit.

This time I am trying to cut out SUGAR. By not adding sugar or eating things with so much sugar in them. Unfortunately here in America we love sugar and most things have sugar in them, but I am working on it. I am craving sweet things by the afternoon I am also feeling quite a bit more tired with out all the added sugar in my diet. This is like day two hopefully by weeks end I will be feeling alot better....

Do you have any helpful hints on how to cut sugar from my diet?

I went low carb high fat and that curbed my cravings for sweet stuff and junk food in general.

Also cutting out trigger foods for about 30 days helped with me and then I would allow it to be re-introduced as and when I wanted it, although that is seldom now.

Good luck

"Trigger food" is about as much of a BS excuse as "sugar addiction"

That's your opinion and you are entitled to it.

Is there science behind "trigger food"? Just curious.

Psychology 101 would be a good place for you to start. Basic brain structure and NT knowledge, along with a good solid understanding of human behavior will lead you to understand how habits are formed. Good luck!

Ain't my theory to prove. BS is BS.

I'll take that as an admission that you have no knowledge of the above areas.

It is easy to claim something is "BS" because it doesn't fit into your schema, but it doesn't make it any less scientific or valid. There is no amount of research that would sway you because you are happy to believe your own opinions as they obviously are meeting some psychological need. That is fine, but don't pretend to understand basic brain anatomy and how NTs work if you don't. And clearly, you don't.

Excess sugar in the blood gets converted to fat.

False. Excess calories become fat. That is anything eaten in a surplus.

Nope, it's definitely glucose the person above is talking about.

I assume they are talking about carbs.

Carbs - converted to glucose, the glucose is then - taken up by the body as fuel, stored in the muscles and liver (limited storage), converted into body fat to be released as fuel at a later stage.

Given the amount of carbs I eat, most of them sugary, I don't see how this works. There's no way I burn off all the calories I consume of sugary carbs and I've most certainly reduced my body fat going from 170 lbs to 118 lbs...otherwise, you're saying that excess sugar is converted to fat and my BF% shouldve stayed stagnant.

ETA: I'm genuinely curious. I'm no scientist but I do have my own results and I'm wondering how I achieved this given what is implied

If you are eating in a deficit you will likely not have surplus glucose in your blood or full glycogen stores in your muscles and liver, plus if you are on a medium to high carb diet your brain will be using about 130g to function, so I doubt you will be storing much if any glucose as body fat.

However, if you are consuming large quantities of glucose in one sitting (still within your calorie goal though) your body may have to store some, just to get it out of your blood stream, but as your body will be converting body fat for fuel anyway what it stores will likely be burnt later in the day anyway.