Looking for Other Sugar, Flour and Wheat Abstinent friends

So what's left to eat?

Unless you are allergic to those things, seems very restrictive. Vegetables contain sugar too, do they not?

I have Celiac and am 100% gluten free so no wheat rye or Barley. also in the last year I have started living the Keto life (part of that is no sugar) and it has made an amazing difference in how I feel day to day! no more cravings or snacking!

Sugar in fruit is the exact same as cane sugar. The only difference is your fruit has fiber to help process it in your body without having the same sugar spike.

are you looking to do a Ketogenic Diet? if you cutting out sugar that is what most people do for that. there is a lot of good resources online about doing it, but the break down of what you want when cutting out sugar, is eating protein, good fats, and leafy green veggies. Your daily macro should be around (60% fat, 30% protein, and 10% carbs). it is all about balancing your blood sugar. good fat will not spike your Blood sugar, too much protein will, and the veggie help regulate your blood sugar, and the fiber will slow the absorption of sugars with in veggies. if you going pure keto no or very little fruits, if you just trying not to gain weight, then fruits with meals are ok. One benefit of a Ketogenic Diet is once you been doing it for a week or so, it gets easy, and you loss the urge to snack.
(each person is not the same that this is a very basic idea of how a Ketogenic diet works, if you are looking to do a keto diet I would read up and research a plan that works for you)

I am not a sales person, trust me, but i started a diet 2 weeks ago and it all came from this book, 'The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet: Lose weight fast and reprogramme your body'.

Basically, i do a lot of sport, used to be a triathlete when i was in my late 20's but weighted 70kgs, now i am 95kg, still exercise but boy do i look and feel bigger, my wife and son keep telling me they like my chunkiness, but i dont.

I gave up dieting so i don't really like the title of this book, it is more a life style change, i gave up sugar 2 1/2 weeks ago, no bread, pasta, potatoes, sweets anything along those lines.

I replaced all that with simple foods, set myself a target and said that if i wanted to lose weight, dont make it complicated, so stuck to the principles of the book but not the recipes. I dont have time to do them.

Poached eggs, grilled mushrooms in the morning from my Cafe, lunch of mostly salad and/ or beans/ pulses, afternoon two pieces of fruit, some almonds, Ryvita occasionally, as this is not advised, Protein shakes 3 times a week to make sure i get enough protein and once a week a Twix, my soft spot. I dont have time to cook, as i said, so have decided not to worry about cost until my programme is finished, it works for me so far.

Maybe you can buy the book or borrow it from the library, but it is working for me, this morning i weighted 89.6kg already, and still going, i dont even remember the last time i was below 90kg, it must have been about 5 years now.

SW_Free, if you want a buddy, drop me a line.

The date of your post is the date i started back, i had to take a week off for celebrations, sons birthday, son moving into new house, son new job, son passing driving theory, no chance of staying a way from food :-(

Let me know.

P.S. forgot to add, i am a veggie so that helps me on this diet, i can eat grass so long as it has pepper :-)

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