Sugar Free until 2015

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  • DAM5412
    DAM5412 Posts: 660 Member
    Congrats EmilyAnn on your dedication and focus on trying a new healthier lifestyle.

    I agree with a lot of the content of some of the previous posts, if not the way the information is delivered. Weight loss and good health is a journey, one which may not always follow a very linear path. You are young and learning, and open to it. Good for you.

    Setting goals and learning from the struggles to accomplish them are so important. Just keep looking and trying and you will be fine!

    Best of luck!
  • EmilyAnn_1989
    EmilyAnn_1989 Posts: 7
    ]I think the problem is you've said is that you want to go 'sugar free', which not only being impractical is impossible. Your body runs on sugar in it's many forms some it makes itself some you ingest. There is a form of sugar in almost everything and your brain needs it just to function.

    This thread may have got gone better if you'd just said you were giving up sweet things that give you cravings and that you find it difficult to moderate rather than such as non achievable blanket statement. I applaud your positive mindset but make sure you make goals that are achievable as failure of impossible goals can cause huge mental set backs. Good luck

    i don't think she meant giving up sugar such as natural sugar that is in a banana or a carrot. you twisted her post.

    You got it... just cutting out the OBVIOUS sugars found in desserts and treats. The topic title just had a nice ring to it :wink:
  • Welcome2theHellmouth
    Welcome2theHellmouth Posts: 206 Member
    I know EXCACTLY how you feel Emily. I can't have just a little. People always say I have such willpower when I pass up so many treats at work. It's only because I cannot have just 1 donut or 1 piece of cake. Once I start I cannot stop. Some people just don't understand that. I have found the ONLY way I get lose weight anymore is 6 days a week go without dessert. On Saturdays I treat myself! Sometimes I have alot sometimes I don't. But just knowing that 1 day a week I can have a treat it gets me thru!
  • akshngrl
    akshngrl Posts: 27 Member
    Emily, it is a great goal. I am surprised by the unsupportive comments because there is such a huge body of research about how terrible sugar is for the body and how incredibly addictive it is. There is nothing beneficial about eating processed sugars. When we say, I can't have just a little, that sounds like loss of control/addiction to me. I struggle with the sugar thing so much. And when I eat something sugary, I crave more carbs more carbs more food. I want to join you in this challenge but I'm not ready! We'll see....
  • 211AndCounting
    211AndCounting Posts: 12
    YES !!!! I soooo need to cut down on my "sweet junk foods" - so I'm in. How do you want to do this? Do we report in every day on what we ate, our struggles/temptations and how we overcome, what we did (exercise) to help us in our weight-loss and to distract us from the "sugar" stuff. Encouragement, tips, etc.

    Pls let me know if you just want to post here or if you're going to set up a group.

    It will be 13 and 1/2 weeks till the end of Dec and I can't wait to feel "great" by then (and I know I will feel great cause I always feel soooo much better when I get my sugar intake under control). Looking forward to hearing from you.
  • NaRmI10
    NaRmI10 Posts: 48 Member
    It's so much easier to just count your calories honestly *every* day and try to hit your macros...things will sort themselves out as you go along...why join the "all or nothing" camp? :ohwell:

    I agree... I tried doing that before.... and I end up gaining the weight back..... again everyone is different.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    It's so much easier to just count your calories honestly *every* day and try to hit your macros...things will sort themselves out as you go along...why join the "all or nothing" camp? :ohwell:

    I agree... I tried doing that before.... and I end up gaining the weight back..... again everyone is different.
    As do most people. Including calorie counters.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    But...but....but.... Christmas cookies.

    Heh, that's what hit me too. And Thanksgiving pie.

    I've actually been thinking about how to deal with the holiday season already, so maybe that's why it's where my mind went (I am going to try to take Advent more seriously than usual this year, and I don't mean the calendars with the chocolates), but even if I were inclined to forswearing instead of moderation the time of year wouldn't work for me.

    But good luck, OP.
  • KathleenCora
    KathleenCora Posts: 160 Member
    Wow, I say congrats to you!! I completely understand where your coming from, I have the same issue with sweets. I'm not much of a candy person but cookies, cake...carby sweets are my down fall. I cut all processed sugar from my diet 3 weeks ago. It was very difficult at first but I actually don't crave it at all anymore. I haven't actually made a goal date for how long I've given sweets up but I'm thinking that I'll try for the end of October(to see if I can by pass Halloween).

    I use stevia to sweeten coffee and my morning smoothies and that's it. No honey, no processed foods with sugar in it...nothing.

    Good luck to you, stay strong!!
  • Bl0ndeBecky
    Bl0ndeBecky Posts: 10
    I think I'll jump on too!! I'm just like you and whenever there is a sweet food in the house I eat it!! (assuming it's vegan, of course...) I want an entire 5? months last year with no added sugars, but I recently started using them again. As for the guy above that said he keeps his total carbs close to 20, WHAT? did I read something, wrong??? My daily carbs never go under 300....

    And just remember to eat all the FRUIT you want because our brains and body DO still run on natural glucose!!

    Best of luck to everyone!!
    ~Becky
  • Bl0ndeBecky
    Bl0ndeBecky Posts: 10
    I think I'll jump on too!! I'm just like you and whenever there is a sweet food in the house I eat it!! (assuming it's vegan, of course...) I want an entire 5? months last year with no added sugars, but I recently started using them again. As for the guy above that said he keeps his total carbs close to 20, WHAT? did I read something, wrong??? My daily carbs never go under 300....

    And just remember to eat all the FRUIT you want because our brains and body DO still run on natural glucose!!

    Best of luck to everyone!!
    ~Becky
  • psyche3090
    psyche3090 Posts: 7 Member
    Me and my husband have been 'sugar free' for ... over 3 years now. ^_^
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    I think I'll jump on too!! I'm just like you and whenever there is a sweet food in the house I eat it!! (assuming it's vegan, of course...) I want an entire 5? months last year with no added sugars, but I recently started using them again. As for the guy above that said he keeps his total carbs close to 20, WHAT? did I read something, wrong??? My daily carbs never go under 300....

    And just remember to eat all the FRUIT you want because our brains and body DO still run on natural glucose!!

    Best of luck to everyone!!
    ~Becky
    Just a wild guess that he eats low carb and you (obviously) don't.

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