Extreme sugar intake & weight loss

Yeah it's all about the calories not what anybody thinks about the food - for weight control. A teacher lost 56 pounds eating nothing but McDonald's, but only 1,900 cals per day. I think somebody must weight eating nothing but Twinkies to prove that it's calories and not food quality that controls your weight. He must have been starving because they're not very filling for how many calories they have. And it surely wasn't the healthiest choice.

You'll have to decide how you feel about sugar, alternative sweeteners, and all that, but do it with the knowledge that it won't hinder your weight loss.

Finally, fat loss is healthy. Drinking 8 lbs of sugar every month is better for you than carrying 80 excess pounds.

NorthCascades wrote: »

Yeah it's all about the calories not what anybody thinks about the food - for weight control. A teacher lost 56 pounds eating nothing but McDonald's, but only 1,900 cals per day. I think somebody must weight eating nothing but Twinkies to prove that it's calories and not food quality that controls your weight. He must have been starving because they're not very filling for how many calories they have. And it surely wasn't the healthiest choice.

You'll have to decide how you feel about sugar, alternative sweeteners, and all that, but do it with the knowledge that it won't hinder your weight loss.

Finally, fat loss is healthy. Drinking 8 lbs of sugar every month is better for you than carrying 80 excess pounds.

Yep and improved some of his health markers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

I wish I could eat 8.2lbs of empty calories a month Why has no one mentioned Devil Dogs? They're awesome in every way. I just can't eat that much and stay within my daily/weekly calorie goals. The math isn't kind to me lol.

I think I see it like this.... in the UK after the war people went mad for sugar because they couldnt get it (or much other food) during the war and so people of a certain age here were used to having quite a lot of sugar in tea, jam, biscuits, cakes etc etc, it was a real thing with the older generation (when I was growing up) and of course us kids liked plenty of sweets too. Ive heard people say they used to give their kids sugar sandwiches, white bread with butter sprinkled with sugar!

They also ate what we would say these days - quite badly - as in quite fatty meat, lots of white bread, meat and 2 veg type dinners.

But we didnt have an obesity problem then (70s and 80s). But we did have very high levels of early deaths caused by heart disease. But we also had a nation of smokers.

So weight wise, high calorie foods are not likely to be the problem IF you dont eat more than you burn
Health wise, you could be at a healthy weight but have clogged up arteries due to your love of sugar and whatever other nutrition might be poor.

nooboots wrote: »

I think I see it like this.... in the UK after the war people went mad for sugar because they couldnt get it (or much other food) during the war and so people of a certain age here were used to having quite a lot of sugar in tea, jam, biscuits, cakes etc etc, it was a real thing with the older generation (when I was growing up) and of course us kids liked plenty of sweets too. Ive heard people say they used to give their kids sugar sandwiches, white bread with butter sprinkled with sugar!

Yep... and whenever my mother made tea or coffee for me as a youngster she automatically put two sugars in it because that's how she liked hers, so that's the taste I grew up with. It took me quite a while to wean myself off that when I was in my late teens or so, but after I did I found that it tasted odd to have sugar in my drinks! I can't stand sweet tea now. When it was my turn to be a mother, I made sure to never add any sugar to my son's tea so that he didn't become used to the sweet taste - he's never asked to even try a cuppa with sugar in it, and he's in his twenties now.

(I've had sugar sandwiches, too... Sometimes it was a cheap snack option for my parents.)

nooboots wrote: »

I think I see it like this.... in the UK after the war people went mad for sugar because they couldnt get it (or much other food) during the war and so people of a certain age here were used to having quite a lot of sugar in tea, jam, biscuits, cakes etc etc, it was a real thing with the older generation (when I was growing up) and of course us kids liked plenty of sweets too. Ive heard people say they used to give their kids sugar sandwiches, white bread with butter sprinkled with sugar!

They also ate what we would say these days - quite badly - as in quite fatty meat, lots of white bread, meat and 2 veg type dinners.

But we didnt have an obesity problem then (70s and 80s). But we did have very high levels of early deaths caused by heart disease. But we also had a nation of smokers.

So weight wise, high calorie foods are not likely to be the problem IF you dont eat more than you burn
Health wise, you could be at a healthy weight but have clogged up arteries due to your love of sugar and whatever other nutrition might be poor.

My granny was one of those who went nuts for sugar post war
She baked cakes, biscuits and scones daily. She was a little overweight but I think the only reason she managed to keep away from being obese is she loved to feed the community, gave away trays of stuff to neighbours and had an open door policy for people to nip in for cake and a cup of tea....... with sugar cubes she kept stacked in a butter dish with little tongs 😂