Horrified by my sugar intake

I love sweets. but my bust guess would be to try to keep your self full with better foods for ya. celery, carrots. maybe something you can have with you and snack on when you want to go for that cannoli

My suagar is always over even when all I eat all day is salads and natural sugars such as fruit! I've been trying to cut down for ages for example I used to always have soft drink and cordial but now I only have it on weekends as a treat.

Bump for interest too! I have a major sweet tooth, and struggle quiet a bit with my sugar intake even though I know it's not good for you (MOST sugars). I stopped buying sugary snacks, for a while I'd buy individual Reese peanut butter cups thinking it'd be better than all out splurging on a chocolate bar, but still found it too easy to give in to temptation :P. If I don't have it around me, I can't indulge in it.

I am fighting the same battle. I have the biggest sweet tooth you could imagine.
I have recently started tracking my sugar intake, and to stay under goal I do what one of the above posters suggested.
I eat the better stuff first. Tonight I had a treat, but it fit into all of my goals.
You can certainly do this.

Sugar free gum helps a lot!!

I have an opinion on this.

While I'm certainly not going to suggest that you go hog-wild on a bag of sugar, I wouldn't be too concerned. I did check out the article you linked, but I think it's flawed. The study they reference about activity levels was only done on children and the full text of the study wasn't even attached. Additionally, EVEN IF (and this is a very, very big if) activity hasn't decreased (which I believe it has, substantially), intake certainly may have increased, and it doesn't matter whether or not this intake comes from sugar. Surplus eating will cause fat gain, period.

Additionally, since lustig was mentioned as a solid reference in that article, you should take a look at this counterpoint to Lustig, as Lustig seems convinced that HFCS are the cause of obesity:

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

The rise in obesity is due to overconsumption of calories. Every few years someone will come along and blame something else on obesity, and every time (so far) they've been readily debunked. First it was dietary fat, and then carbs, and then HFCS.

We've had Taubes, then Lustig, and who knows what will be next. Maybe Dr Oz will blame sunflowers.

I would suggest checking this out as a side note:
http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319


In closing -- I'm not telling you any of this to say you're wrong. I'm telling you this so that you don't panic and become alarmed from alarmist media. If you're not diabetic, just use some common sense with food selection (fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, nuts and even have the occasional treat like ice cream every now and then), get some exercise, and eat in a calorie deficit with macronutrient sufficiency and beyond that you'll be just fine. No need to freak out over a banana.


That's my opinion, and good luck.

I watched the TV program and was shocked by the fact that "even though corn syrup is 20% sweeter than sucrose (suger) the quantity was kept the same as research has shown that the sweeter something is the more of it we eat" =s extra sales.

I am now traking suger

I watched the TV program and was shocked by the fact that "even though corn syrup is 20% sweeter than sucrose (suger) the quantity was kept the same as research has shown that the sweeter something is the more of it we eat" =s extra sales.

I am now traking suger

The crap is vicious as it calls to its own. That's also the danger of "fat free" as the fat was replaced by sugar so the net effect is nothing.

i have a MASSIVE sweet tooth. i have found that the only way for me not to eat it is to not have it around. otherwise, there's no holding me back!

I just find it easier not to eat sugar and high sugar fruit. My cravings lessen significantly after about 30 days and I feel so much better and have so much more energy. I eat high protein/moderate carb and try to eat unprocessed food. I have been doing this since Feb 12 and have lost 20 lbs/. I keep calories at about 1500 and try to exercise moderately 5 days/week

when your brain craves sugar, it doesn't know the difference between natural sugars from fruits and actual **** sugar from candybars - why don't you have a chocolate protein shake, a protein pancake http://toneitup.com/blog.php?Protein-Pancakes-Low-carb-low-fat-and-delicious-1973

some sweet fruits like starwberries, honeydew, rockmelon, watermelon - you could have natural yoghurt with honey and apricot and almond museli with strawberries, be creative,

if you are serious about weight loss you will throw all the crap in your fridge and cupboard in the bin and start buying healthy foods , you won't be tempted to eat **** because your WILL POWER is stronger than your temptations. YOU WANT TO BE FIT AND HEALTHY and this outweighs any 5 minute craving . MAKE YOUR WILL POWER stronger than your excuses to eat crap. I'm so sick of hearing all these excuses. If you want something, you will make it happen. If you want to healthy, you will cut artificial sugars from your diet and there wont' be any question about it. STOP MAKING EXCUSES AS TO WHY YOU CAN'T AND START SHOWING YOURSELF WHY YOU CAN.

If your eating healthy, meat and veg everyday i would bother about what mfp says about sugar, there are sugars in so many natural things and anwyay when you eat carbs like bread and rice they convert to sugar so you cant avoid them alltogether, thats not healthy, I havent read the link thing you put up but god if we took notice all of these wacky reports we would be dead of starvation.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I've read somewhere that it's best to avoid sugar until the end of the day, as when you eat it earlier on, you'll crave more for the rest of the day.

The less you eat something, the less you'll want it, so just cut down gradually and replace artificial sugars with fruit and yoghurt

If there was candy i would eat it... Now i moved to grapes, raisins and other fruits. Its not the sugar that's bad its hows getting in.

Find some fruit you like, its the perfect time of year. If you can dehydrate some of them into chips or pocket snacks and take them with you, you dont need a fancy dehydrator you can use your oven.

Banana chips, mango chips, raisins, cherry's grapes, kiwi chips, or make them little gummy blocks.

Sugar, good old fashioned C6-H12-O6 is not bad nor is a large amount if taken though natural foods. Dont get tripped up on the numbers, just replace the sweets with a better sweet!

Try to avoid all artificial sweeteners like the plague there dangerous in the long-term. Besides eating anything Sugar free isn't solving the problem, its a band-aid.

All band-aids fall off in time.