The biggest reason people can't stick to their diets: Sugar (weight loss, carbs)
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I think instead of preferring sugar in all the items we can probably replace with sugar sweeteners or honey. Honey is natural and best for health. Or else we can lessen the sugar intake in our foods.
I love sugar, in most of its many forms. This is why I never told myself I was going to remove all sugar from my diet! I knew I'd be setting myself up for failure. Instead, I've stopped drinking sugary drinks with the exception of my one cup of coffee every morning. (On a side note, I really wanted a Starbucks caramel Frapuccino the other day, but then I looked up the nutritional values. 260 calories without the whipped cream, including 45 grams of sugar - the equivalent of a can of Pepsi! )
While sugar may not be the only culprit, it certainly adds calories, and it's in almost every form of processed food we eat! It's in bread, spaghetti sauce, almost anything canned... If you look at the ingredients as you're grocery shopping, it's very enlightening!
Sugar in bread is only used to activate the yeast. It's something like - a tablespoon with hot water, for 2 packages of yeast, which yields 4 LOAVES of bread. So you're getting 1/4 tablespoon per loaf, which comes out to around 1/16 of a teaspoon of sugar per slice.
Unless of course you're buying packaged soft loaves of bread from the bread aisle in the supermarket. I don't know WHY they add extra sugar to bread in those packages. But if you're getting it from the bakery section, chances are the sugar in the loaf is negligible. And if you're making your own from scratch, it -is- negligible.
Sugar and starch are really the big smack in the face for weight loss. There are a few different types of carbs, but that combination of carbs is the real culprit. So all the things most people like - muffins, cake, pastries, cookies - those are the dealbreakers right there. Worse than ice cream, worse than cheesecake, bite for bite. Yes the cheesecake has more calories, but it lacks the starch that combines with the sugar to cause the most dietary damage.
There are a few different types of carbs, but that combination of carbs is the real culprit. So all the things most people like - muffins, cake, pastries, cookies - those are the dealbreakers right there
This would describe me, since I like baked (or, fried, if we are talking about donuts) goods. I try to limit this stuff to breakfast or coffee breaks....or after a long hike.
But I also get sugar from stuff like fruits...apples, bananas, oranges, and so forth, and honey and maple syrup for oatmeal....natural sources....so maybe I need to eat less baked goods.
I figure if I do my own baking I might be able to control the sugar content.
I am not a "sugar addict". Sweet things...no. carbs though...bread! Cake! Pasta! I crave it. Cannot have it in the home. One slice of bread is not enough.
I saw a "normal" serving of pasta....1/3 cup cooked! Wow. Forget it. It looked like a baby portion. I cook and eat pasta, it is a huge bowl.
I am not a "sugar addict". Sweet things...no. carbs though...bread! Cake! Pasta! I crave it. Cannot have it in the home. One slice of bread is not enough.
I saw a "normal" serving of pasta....1/3 cup cooked! Wow. Forget it. It looked like a baby portion. I cook and eat pasta, it is a huge bowl.
But all those things you listed break down very quickly into simple sugars....if you are eating huge potions of pasta, cake and bread....you are very probably a sugar addict. You say you aren't addicted to sugar and then proceed to talk about the foods you eat which are all sugar.
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