Eliminating Sugar From Your Diet

[Couturierdiva]

Sugar is my biggest problem, too! I have these periods without sugar and sweets, and it gets easier week by week, but when I eat something once, here we go again!!!

I`ve tried moderation, too. One cookie, one small chocolate bar..it just leaves me craving for more. And usually I find something more. I really believe this is already some kind of addiction to me..it comes by night, I can eat healthy for whole day, but when clock hits 10 pm, my heads gets full of sweet thoughts I used to be addicted to sodas, but I changed to Pepsi Max.

Now I´m mostly worried about my teeth, I have always had white, pretty smile without any breaks, but now dentist asks me everytime I go there, "do you eat much candies" etc?

I guess I should cut all the extra sugar ( leave only whole grain foods and fruits, veggies..but it`s so hard. Without no doubt as hard as quitting smoking.

Yeah, it's hard to curb.

 

[MBee]

I`ve tried moderation, too. One cookie, one small chocolate bar..it just leaves me craving for more. And usually I find something more. I really believe this is already some kind of addiction to me..it comes by night, I can eat healthy for whole day, but when clock hits 10 pm, my heads gets full of sweet thoughts I used to be addicted to sodas, but I changed to Pepsi Max.

I've always been told that if you have cravings late at night for sweets, that it's your body's way of telling you to sleep. So perhaps you need to go to sleep earlier?

 

[lifeistiffanyblu]

i try to get my sugars from fruits and dried fruit most of the time...hmm i think ill munch on some dried mango actually.

 

[papa_levante]

My friend found that the daily intake of sugar ought to be around 40g. We were both surprised when the cup of yogurt I had for a snack one day had 38g. And, I was "all natural" and "organic." Is 40g correct?

 

[nijuyanah]

I don't drink anything besides water and as I never had big problems with avoiding sweets (just don't like them that much) my sugar-intake is pretty low. Still: my skin doesn't really seem to benefit from it

 

[lifeistiffanyblu]

papa levante i dont think thats correct! i think its around 90-100? but 40 grams just seems too low!
maybe someone else could be of more help

 

[cocktaildress]

For me eating sweets in moderation is almost an oxymoron like smoke in moderation, use heroin in moderation. What is funny is that they found that most addictions (alcohol, cigarette, heroin etc.) are based on sugar !! Yes alcohol, cigarettes, drugs contain sugar. That's why I'm cutting it altogeter (that includes white and even whole bread for me).

Like an addict, I miss the sensations sugar give me (the comfort, the taste, hell even the joy) and I'm almost sad that I can't experience them any more. Also, I feel anormal when I go to the supermarket and aisle after aisle is processed food and sugary food, or when I go to a coffee shop and see people tucking into cake. In my mind I think "oh how much I would like to be able to eat cake/chocolate/biscuits normally without going nuts about it like normal people". Like a recovering alcoholic is probably amazed to see people drinking one cocktail whereas he/she has to have half a dozen drinks. I feel alienated because cutting sugar from your diet tends to isolate you socially, or prevents you to partake in social situations.

 

[chicandcool]

I don't think I could ever eliminate sugar from my diet. I'd go crazy. Or depressed.

 

[Virginielle]

It's def going on my New Year's resolutions list again this year..

 

[*Isobel*]

this thread is so inspirational! allthough i hate new years resolutions, i'm thinking about eliminating sugar. i'm not sure i'll be able to eliminate it 100%, though. and: pineapple juice is my new addiction! wop wop!

 

[Ryan Riverz]

I don't think I could totally eliminate sugar, although I have started eating much more healthy in the past 6 months, I used to eat tons of junk food. The longer you eat healthy the more you WANT to eat healthy, and the other stuff becomes too rich or too artificial tasting after a while.

 

[papa_levante]

^ Thanks Ryan Riverz. I like your attitude. Very inspiring.

 

[PinkPrincess113]

wow i really need to visit this thread more often! i have tried to cut out sugar from my diet but i am SO addicted to candy and junk food also my whole family drinks alcohol so it's very hard to be the only sober one at holiday parties. so sparkling water is ok then? even the flavored ones?

 

[daulbee]

that is my new year resolution too. Cutting out sugar makes me feel a whole lot better (I used to get up at mid night and stuff myself with chocolate chips cookie or cocoa crunch, soooo unhealthy back then) But seriously less sugar = more energy. Just eliminate the "junk" ones!

 

[diamondeyes]

i went on a sugar free diet last year, and though it was difficult at first, i felt so much better and my skin looked so clear
i'm cutting out sugar again starting tomorrow
at least i know i've done it before, so i can do it again!

 

[tullepen]

The only sugar I really have is dark dark chocolate,Green & Black's,and it's not that often.Usually around the full moon cycle!

 

[Fabulyss]

I'm pretty addicted to sugar, some days are worse than others...but everytime I try to cut back drastically I end up getting extremely faint & weak (even if I eat a full meal of, let's say protein and whole grains), so much so that I end up caving.

Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Virginielle]

The only sugar I really have is dark dark chocolate,Green & Black's,and it's not that often.Usually around the full moon cycle!

LOVE the 85% dark stuff - it's so much more satisfying. Since I've been eating the Green & Black's and the Valhrona (or something), regular milk chocolate just doesn't cut it.

 

[TommyGirl]

My friend found that the daily intake of sugar ought to be around 40g. We were both surprised when the cup of yogurt I had for a snack one day had 38g. And, I was "all natural" and "organic." Is 40g correct?

Could you mean carbohydrates in general, not only sugar? It sounds awfully lot if there`s 38g sugar in one cup of yogurt.

Anyway, assuming you meant carbs, 40 g is very little, many people on Atkins diet (no carbs-diet) eat about that. I found this recommentation: amount of carbs (for ppl who exercise) is about 5-6 g per weight kilo. If you`re athletic, runner etc, then 6-8 g/kilo.

This sounds to be a lot, and opinions varies very much about this subject.

 

[papa_levante]

^ Thanks TommyGirl. I'm very interested in eliminating sugar.