no sugar for one month...any one try this?

When I did this I got repeated hypoglycemic attacks several times out of the blue and they were AWFUL and made me feel terrible for many hours afterwards. I started eating more sugar to minimize these attacks and I went to the doc to get my blood work done just in case. He found nothing wrong with me so I am pretty darn sure it was my diet of low sugar. He told me to get some Chromium Picolinate which I did and I changed up my diet and have not had them in almost 5-6 months. I no longer need the Chromium P. Be careful playing with your body needs.

Processed sugars right? those do the damage to your body. your skin sags and wrinkles, you organs overwork... natural from the foods yes, syrups from fruits and veggies? no... still processed!

Would like to see actual clinical evidence of the claims here.

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I'm with you on this challenge... but I am concerned about the amount of sugar in fruits... I'm always over my sugar goal for the day because of the sugar in fruits... 2 servings of fruit take me over my limit, then add the sugar in the other foods and I'm over like 20-40 grams... is this okay?

I'm averaging 100g+ of sugar a day.

Why? I can't help it. It's all I eat.

I'm gonna try this starting today - bar sugar from fruit and vegetables!

Refined sugars - I try to avoid totally.

Being vegetarian means most sweets and chocolate are no go areas anyway.

I even try to keep natural sugars down

I eat 1 or 2 portions of fruit per day maximum - but about 10 portions of veggies a day!

Check this site, it's scary! http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/the-sugar-conspiracy/

Just a question. After a month, you're going to eat sugar again? If you are, then why give it up? Why not figure out how to just portion it?

^ This. If you can't handle the change indefinitely, why try for just a month? Make small changes you can sustain rather than drastic ones that will lead you to a short-term-success-quick-fail cycle that will leave you psychologically worn out and make you want to quit altogether.

thats what i did for first 2 months of my cut... carb cycling... my sugars were near 0... didnt even eat fruits or anything like that...

I'm at day 27 and I feel great. I had planned for this to just be a month but I see no reason to go back to sugar. Even chocolate which I used to eat every day I know longer have cravings for. The first week was hell, I felt twitchy, angry and had really bad headaches. The cravings were more intense then I've ever had in my life. I think it was such an extreme withdrawal that helped me realize just how addicted I was. Mentally when I put sugar in the same bucket as alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, it all made sense.

I feel more energetic, less hungry and Ive lost 4kg. My palate has changed, nutritious foods like meat and veggies taste so much better and cheap processed food tastes dull. Also my teeth don't hurt any more, even when I drink really cold water.

As for people saying just to limit portions, I think this is well meaning but the wrong approach. Unlike other foods a little bit of sugar increases cravings rather than sates them. Also your body's sense of sweetness is completely thrown out by refined sugars. Bell peppers, carrots, etc all have a beautiful sweetness to them that you can't appreciate until you give it a chance to rebaseline, and then you realise how sickly sweet confectionary really is. About 6 months ago I went a month without chocolate (but still ate othet sugars in moderation) and I craved it every day till I finished then binged till I was sick. I also think moderation is the wrong idea because you can completely replace processed sugars with sugars in whole foods. No one says to eat trans fats in moderation.