CARBS AND SUGAR PLEASE HELP!!

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  • B21goddess
    B21goddess Posts: 35
    The Mountain Dew - 290 calories, 76g Carbs - all sugar - waste of calories.
    What is florida crystals - you have it as 6 tsp - is this sugar in coffee??
    Another entry 8 tsp of sugar - you must have one hell of a sweet tooth?

    Yeah, I checked out the diary. There is some crazy amounts of sugar going on!

    My suggestion is to stop drinking all the sugary stuff! Most of your diary is sweet drinks or liquids, period. Maybe try drinking unsweetened fruit based ice tea instead? I did that to help me give up pop/soda.

    Also, this is just my personal reaction based on my history of eating terribly but unless you aren't logging a lot of what you eat, you are probably not getting enough nutrients. Maybe add counters for calcium or iron or fiber or something to help you focus on eating a more balanced diet with more whole foods and not fast food/restaurant dishes/liquids.

    I am logging everything I eat.
    Im recovering from ''bulimia"
    and Ive decided to give up artificial sweeteners
    and all I crave it SWEET things so its really really hard :(
  • B21goddess
    B21goddess Posts: 35
    I go over my carbs a little bit sometime and I almost ALWAYS go over my sugar, but Im still right at my calorie intake or a little less. Is this going to slow down my weight loss
    There is a body of opinion that says all calories are not the same and that carbohydrates are implicated in obesity.

    MFP's sugar alarm can be turned off, or set to another number. You could just monitor total carbs for example.

    Of course the sucrose grown by Florida Crystals is as natural as the sucrose in the oranges growing in the next field, so you will get confusing and mixed messages from people trying to differentiate one as good and the other as bad. Sympathy with that.

    If you're serious about losing weight you could take out the excess sugars and reduce the calories accordingly. If "a calorie is a calorie" there would be no argument for replacing them.

    I never have a appetite so drinking lots of sugar in my coffee and having 1 soda a day helps my calories go up.
  • B21goddess
    B21goddess Posts: 35
    bump
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    Wow, the ED issue gives so much more context to your original question.

    Eating sweets for many people causes sugar cravings, its a vicious cycle. Eat sweets, crave sweets, repeat. I have found that my personal sweet cravings were greatly reduced by eating whole fruit or frozen fruit when I would have had some sort of treats. A favorite snack/dessert for me is cottage cheese with fresh strawberries, sweetened with some truvia. (I use real stevia for most of my sweetener, but truvia works better for certain things because it has the same crystalline texture as sugar). That snack has natural sugar, fat and protein, so it's actually very satisfying. When I was trying to break the sweet craving cycle, I ate a lot of fruit whenever I had those cravings, and it naturally tapered off to where I don't eat so much extra fruit, but I don't crave sweets anymore either.

    Now, if you need to up your calories, and the sugar is what is helping maintain your recovery from the ED, then by all means eat the sugar! Keeping control over your ED is SO much more important than sticking to the limits set by MFP for your sugar allowance! That being said, soda and organic sugar are calorie dense, but nutritionally void. You can up your calories with more nutritionally dense choices, if you feel ready to do so. Natural peanut butter, healthy cooking oils like olive oil and coconut oil, nuts, dried fruit, dark chocolate, cheese, avocado, full fat greek yogurts, or adding a protein shake with any combination of these ingredients can help you add calories and add other nutrients as well.
  • B21goddess
    B21goddess Posts: 35
    for some reason sugar and soda dont make me feel like Im going to get fat. but if I were to stick peanut butter in my mouth or add an extra meal Ill freak out.and protein shakes ect. I count them as meals.
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