Sugar free diet

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You don't need to avoid sugar to lose weight - you just need to eat in a calorie deficit as the poster above told you. Many fruits and vegetables contain sugar. (yes, natural sugar, but added sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beets, which are also - you guessed it - natural).
Buy a food scale, weigh all of your solid foods, and measure your caloric liquids. Eat foods you like, just in smaller portions. You will lose weight, and you will enjoy eating while you are doing it. You can still reduce the amount of sugar you are eating, if that's what you want to do. Just remember that you need to know how many calories you're consuming, because if you're not in a deficit, you won't lose weight, no matter how sugar-free your diet is.

I don't get it. MOst of the recipes in the world are sugar free. What's the problem. Are you saying you want to eat sweet foods without sugar. That's another thing.

If you going to quit sugar becuase you have a problematic sweet tooth, there is no point replacing sugar with honey, molasses, syrups of any kind ditto artificial sweeteners. The point is to get used to not eating very sweet food. This has the effect of sensitising your palate and you start to enjoy other foods more.

As someone who as adopted this life style, i suggest you get over a need for any sort of pretend sweets and be happy with fruit and moderate quantities of dried fruit.

To make this diet work in hte long term what i do has worked really well so far. Here are my strategies which are based around eating sweets only in low risk situations.

Here are my low risk situations. You should think about what your own might be.

1. only when given it by people outside of my home. And only one serve.
2. Only if going to a restaurant with other people, i can order a dessert.
3. After much thought about it all last year, i did cook a fabulous dessert for Christmas and ate one serve. Gave the rest away pretty quickly so i didn't have it there tempting me.
4. When i go to a buffet type party, I allow myself one serve but i would say this is a very difficult and it might be easier not to have any at all. Luckily i don't go to too many buffet parties.
5. Do'nt go to buffet restaurants at all. But if you do, you might find it easier to not have any dessert at all than to restrict yoruself to one serve of one type of dessert.
6. When i go travelling in a foreign country, i can either eat dessert and sweets or not. Last trip, this april may, i thought i would go and allow myself one a day maximum but i was unable to limit myself to that. Nevertheless i was able to make sure i still ate health food for hte most part and i was able to resume my standard practice as soon as I returned home. I went to Japan. The idea of this rule was so that i could enjoy discovering foreign desserts.

On average, apart from my trip, i would say that i had sweets about once a month which is good because it means i get it enough but not enough to create the conditions of a return to my old habits and i do not feel deprived. One of hte main reasons i do not feel deprived is because i eat a wide vareiety of healthy adn delicious food all the time. And i do not cut calories significantly, causing cravings. I also eat a fair bit of fruit.

Re sugar, i never had problems with soda or alcohol so these drinks are not forbidden to me. I can buy them or drink when i want with no restriction. I tend to drink about one alcoholic drink most days. I rarely drink soda at all.

There is some naturally occurring sugar in most foods, even meat, so it is impossible to go without sugar. Your body needs sugar to function.

It is totally up to you what calories you choose to consume. If sweets provide too great a temptation, simple solution, do not purchase any. You have to do what works for you. The best advice I can give is to avoid processed foods and cook your own meals. Many people here take one day per week and prep, cook and portion meals and snacks for the whole week.

There are multitudes of web sites (including MFP) that have healthy recipes that have no added sugar.

markstoltzz wrote: »

Read the book sugar smart express diet, detox from sugar for good, improve you mood, health, even prevent diabetes, find where all the hidden sugars are in foods get intune with you body, while you watch the weight fall off, you'll be amazed.

No, none of this. Eat at a calorie deficit, regardless of the calorie source and you will lose weight. It won't 'fall off', but you will lose weight.