Going without eating sweets and drinking soda for a 2 weeks
dragonsamurai26
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Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
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Good luck!0
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Are you from the future? How do you know you'll survive it? HOW DO YOU KNOW????
Also, good luck. 😀9 -
Good luck! I'm curious to know why you made the decision to cut them completely. Is this something you plan to do long-term? I haven't had soda in many years, but I could never give up all sweets completely!5
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Good luck! I'm curious to know why you made the decision to cut them completely. Is this something you plan to do long-term? I haven't had soda in many years, but I could never give up all sweets completely!
Also curious why the depravation - are you trying to cut these out of your diet permanently? I only ask because if your goal is to make long term habit changes, feeling deprived frequently backfires. And what happens after the two weeks?
Have you considered cutting back on soda and sweets, or if you are a regular (not diet) soda drinker, maybe mixing half regular with half coke zero (or whatever) to give your palete time to adjust? If it's diet soda, maybe you replace one soda a day with a bottle of water? I have sweets every day but they are small and planned and I get excited to stick to my plan because I know I have sweets!
I wish you luck with all your goals but just speaking for myself, what has worked for me are small slow habit changes that I can stick with over the long term so I can keep the weight off. Having said that, not trying to give you a hard time at all, just sharing how changing my thinking about depravation has helped me not just lose weight but keep it off once I lost it.5 -
Good luck.
My husband did it for a few months about a year and a half ago and he felt great. Eventually he added some candy/desserts back in but hasn’t wanted soda at all.
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I think for some people having a defined time without whatever treat/problem food can be a good strategy.
For some people this works better than gradually cutting down.
You are not unrealistically saying you will never have them again - and usually the plan is to re introduce them in moderate amounts afterward.
Sometimes you find once you are used to not having them you are fine. without them afterwards too.10 -
I am on day 38. I use monk fruit extract or stevia for sweetening my tea or oatmeal. Best of luck to you !2
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that sounds horrible. but if it makes you happy.... go for it i guess.
ive lost over 200 pounds and have (no calorie) soda and chocolate/sweets every day.6 -
Cliffs Notes of Weight Loss:
- Weight loss happens in THE KITCHEN, fitness happens in the gym
- small, sustainable changes
- Understand weight fluctuations are normal. Thinks of a roller coaster, not a steep mountain slope down. Some weeks up, some weeks down. Its the OVERALL TREND that matters
- Learn to weigh your food ON A FOOD SCALE
- Learn how to find ACCURATE DATABASE ENTRIES
- BE ACTIVE - get off your butt and MOVE. Find SOMETHING you enjoy. If your activity is limited, find ways to move that you are ABLE to do
- Deprivation is the key to Binging and falling off the wagon. Learn how to fit your favorite things in regularly. There are no 'bad foods' Just 'bad quantities'.
- One 'bad' day will not undo your deficit.
- You did not gain the weight quickly. You will not lose it quickly. Better to lose it slowly, and KEEP IT OFF, then lose it quick, and gain it all back and more!
Useful Links
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1
and basically ... all of these
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-health-fitness-and-diet-must-reads#latest9 - Weight loss happens in THE KITCHEN, fitness happens in the gym
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dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.2 -
it is totally doable
Although really not a detoxing thing.
Many people, including me, give up certain foods for specific periods of time every year... Ramadan, Lent....
I realise OP's motivation is different - but no reason it has to be horrible
and for some people Cold Turkey works better than slow gradual changes.10 -
I've come to realise that some people need to make up challanges and overcome them in order to feel they are doing something.
I find this cruel deprivation pointless.6 -
Update: I decided to skip two days of drinking soda from 1/7/22 to 1/8/22 instead of 2 weeks and stick with not eating sweets for 2 weeks instead.3
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I've come to realise that some people need to make up challanges and overcome them in order to feel they are doing something.
I find this cruel deprivation pointless.
Cruel deprivation?? - a tad melodramatic.
OP is going without soda and sweets for a short period of time - not starving herself.6 -
Back in the day, when I hit a plateau on weight watchers, one of the things I changed up was going cold turkey on the diet soda and drinking water instead. I didn't really drink all that much soda in the first place but it was the only thing I drank.
It wasn't really that hard! 😀
Giving up sweets was never, and never will be, an option.
So I get the cruel deprivation aspect of it?
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I have a friend who's vegetarian and has sworn off sugar, except natural sugars. Once a year she gets either a piece of peanut butter fudge, some penuche, or a couple premium chocolates and treats herself. I admire her willpower. Sugar is one thing I can't give up so allow myself a bit here and there within calories. Or to satisfy my sweet tooth I'll use something sugar-free. Over the holidays that's all I ate, sugar, sugar, sugar.
Felt terrible.
Diet coke had me addicted to it for years and years, and before that it was Tab. Now I think gross!! But I gave it up a few years back because I wanted to. It was getting expensive and absolutely zero nutrition. Some days I still have a 'hankerin' for a bottle. But I refuse.
I think anyone who wants to give up something, for whatever reason, good for them!!! Whether it's something to do with food, media, anything they see as a negative addition to their life. It helps build resiliency and character and helps prolong that feeling of gotta have it now.
Good luck!! You can do this and don't let anybody talk you out of it. You might just find you don't miss it.6 -
dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.
Wow....I got 14 disagrees on my comment. I am ok with that but curious about it. This person is only giving up soda and sugar for 2 weeks. That does not seem unreasonable to me. Just 2 weeks. I would never give it up completely but two weeks is not asking a lot. Personally I think sweets are bad for you. Everything in moderation...even moderation.4 -
dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.
Wow....I got 14 disagrees on my comment. I am ok with that but curious about it. This person is only giving up soda and sugar for 2 weeks. That does not seem unreasonable to me. Just 2 weeks. I would never give it up completely but two weeks is not asking a lot. Personally I think sweets are bad for you. Everything in moderation...even moderation.
The disagrees were probably in reference to the detox comment. AS @paperpudding pointed out, detoxing really isn't a thing when it comes to food.8 -
dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.
Wow....I got 14 disagrees on my comment. I am ok with that but curious about it. This person is only giving up soda and sugar for 2 weeks. That does not seem unreasonable to me. Just 2 weeks. I would never give it up completely but two weeks is not asking a lot. Personally I think sweets are bad for you. Everything in moderation...even moderation.
I don't think I was one of the disagrees, but I'd betcha they were because of the "detox" part. There's extreme skepticism around here about "detoxing". Organs such as our liver do that job pretty well, and if they aren't doing it adequately, probably disease and even hospital is coming into the picture quickly. From a science-based perspective, a normal reasonably-healthy person doesn't need a "detox".
I think partly the strong reaction is because people believing in "detoxes" is part of what sells some really dumb fad diets. Continuing to encourage people to think they need to "detox" only helps those marketer-idiots sell complicated and ultimately unhelpful things, helps them keep a permanent repeat customer base who fail to manage their weight, feel like they're weak/bad/failures (when it's the marketed plan or supplements that's the problem), and next January 1 come back to try more complicated nonsense.
Sure, it's true that many people would thrive more optimally with a more nutritious overall diet. That means that dropping some calorie-dense but nutrient poor foods, to make room for some more nutrient-dense ones, can be beneficial for health. Even dropping ones that add a lot of calories, but negligible nutrition can be beneficial for managing body weight. Neither of those is a "detox".
Some people here think excluding desired foods isn't a good idea, because they don't benefit from that strategy. Some people don't think craved foods can be moderated, because that doesn't work for them. That's a normal diversity of views. I think the disagrees on your post were about "detox".
I think you just used a loaded word, for this audience. Don't let it get to you!6 -
dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.
Wow....I got 14 disagrees on my comment. I am ok with that but curious about it. This person is only giving up soda and sugar for 2 weeks. That does not seem unreasonable to me. Just 2 weeks. I would never give it up completely but two weeks is not asking a lot. Personally I think sweets are bad for you. Everything in moderation...even moderation.
I didn't disagree, but like others have said, the detox bit is likely why.
I sign on to what paperpudding has said here -- IMO, giving up sweets and soda for 2 weeks isn't that big a deal and for some can be a helpful way of resetting the palate or breaking some habits (such as using those foods as go-tos, vs thinking of some other options).
I see a 2 week break as potentially useful for someone who doesn't plan to (or necessarily plan to) quit entirely.
I do not agree that sweets are bad for you generally -- it depends on the amount you consume. That doesn't mean a break from them can't be useful, however, followed by a decision about how to incorporate them.3 -
dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.
Wow....I got 14 disagrees on my comment. I am ok with that but curious about it. This person is only giving up soda and sugar for 2 weeks. That does not seem unreasonable to me. Just 2 weeks. I would never give it up completely but two weeks is not asking a lot. Personally I think sweets are bad for you. Everything in moderation...even moderation.
Yeh, some disagree-ers I disagree with. I had 1 on my post as well and it left me SMH. 0 -
dragonsamurai26 wrote: »Starting tomorrow, I will survive two weeks without eating sweets or drinking soda at all from 1/7/22 to 1/22/22. Wish me luck.
Best of luck to you. This is totally doable! It may sorta detox your body. When I eat sweets sometimes once I start I cannot stop so abstinence helps me. I wish I could give up diet soda but for right now I still am having one a day.
Wow....I got 14 disagrees on my comment. I am ok with that but curious about it. This person is only giving up soda and sugar for 2 weeks. That does not seem unreasonable to me. Just 2 weeks. I would never give it up completely but two weeks is not asking a lot. Personally I think sweets are bad for you. Everything in moderation...even moderation.
Yeah it'll be the word "detox" (I didn't disagree either). It's a red rag to some people. As others have said food "detox" isn't really a thing (at least not in the way most people in the 'health'food industry use it). But at the same time I'm not sure that it's fair you got so many dislikes. There's plenty of anecdotal evidence from people who have given up added/refined sugars completely for a short period of time, and then found that once allowing them back in, they have less of an appeal that they once did. And while the word detox implies the removal of toxins (which sugar isn't), it is commonly used to talk about the removal of unwanted substance or actions (eg social media detoxes). As the English language is one that changes and developed with use, I do not think that it is wrong to say that you're going on a(n added) sugar detox, if you're actively trying to avoid it for two weeks, as most people will actually know what you mean.
I have a feeling that my comment is going to be an unpopular opinion.11 -
But at the same time I'm not sure that it's fair you got so many dislikes.
Nobody got any dislikes.
Disagree means people disagreed with what was said - if they disagree then they say so, it isn't unfair.
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As the English language is one that changes and developed with use, I do not think that it is wrong to say that you're going on a(n added) sugar detox, if you're actively trying to avoid it for two weeks, as most people will actually know what you mean.
I disagreed with this.
If you don't mean detox then don't say that and hope people know you don't mean it.
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Wow....I guess I used the word "detox" too loosely. Just going from my experience. If I eat sweets one day the next day I crave them still. If I don't eat them for a while I don't crave them. That is all I meant. I get detox is a hot button word. It's all good folks!7
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Good luck. I have been off of non natural sugars and refined carbs for almost 3 months now.
It really isn't that bad.3 -
makinlifehappen wrote: »Good luck. I have been off of non natural sugars and refined carbs for almost 3 months now.
It really isn't that bad.
Wow! That is great. I want to do that as well.1 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »Cliffs Notes of Weight Loss:
- Weight loss happens in THE KITCHEN, fitness happens in the gym
- small, sustainable changes
- Understand weight fluctuations are normal. Thinks of a roller coaster, not a steep mountain slope down. Some weeks up, some weeks down. Its the OVERALL TREND that matters
- Learn to weigh your food ON A FOOD SCALE
- Learn how to find ACCURATE DATABASE ENTRIES
- BE ACTIVE - get off your butt and MOVE. Find SOMETHING you enjoy. If your activity is limited, find ways to move that you are ABLE to do
- Deprivation is the key to Binging and falling off the wagon. Learn how to fit your favorite things in regularly. There are no 'bad foods' Just 'bad quantities'.
- One 'bad' day will not undo your deficit.
- You did not gain the weight quickly. You will not lose it quickly. Better to lose it slowly, and KEEP IT OFF, then lose it quick, and gain it all back and more!
Useful Links
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1
and basically ... all of these
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-health-fitness-and-diet-must-reads#latest
1 - Weight loss happens in THE KITCHEN, fitness happens in the gym
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Callsitlikeiseeit: Appreciate the “cliff notes of weight loss”****that’s a lot of really good advice to remember, especially on harder days!!2
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