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Day two: Feeling great this morning. Slept very well! Had a cup of unsweetened hot tea and a hard-boiled egg before my workout. Breakfast was a generous bowl of steel cut oats and a 1/2 cup of blueberries with a splash of half & half with another cup of tea.
Day two: Feeling great this morning. Slept very well! Had a cup of unsweetened hot tea and a hard-boiled egg before my workout. Breakfast was a generous bowl of steel cut oats and a 1/2 cup of blueberries with a splash of half & half with another cup of tea.
Be prepared, headaches are on the way until you really get used to it. They can be really nasty but they will pass.
The blueberries have sugar. The 1/2 & 1/2 has lactose which is also a sugar. I know, you mean refined sugar or processed but just know that sugar comes is so many forms, doing without it completely in natural states is both nearly impossible and unhealthful.
Sugar found in foods is a necessary ingredient for processing those foods and deriving energy. Watch out for the euphoria thinking things are doing great when you've actually reduced natural sugars to the point where things aren't working right. It can happen.
Jesus, folks, how many times do I have to explain this? The idea is to remove added sugar, specifically fructose, from one's diet, not to stop eating fruit! Milk and small amounts of whole fruit (not juice), like the blueberries in my oatmeal, are a-okay. Refined fructose, as in honey, agave, and table sugar are not. This is NOT Atkins with a new name. I am still eating plenty of carbohydrates. Did any of you even glance at the book or any of the research that inspired it?
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I know, I'm about to fall over in total amusement at those referring to this as a fad. I wish it were--I do believe the stuff is worse than cigarettes--at least in the quantities that most people consume it in. Consider this: sugar feeds cancer! I have gone off of added sugar completely, and starches too, and have lost 24 lbs since 12/26/13 and have postponed surgery and my cancer has not grown at all--seems to have even shrunk. They are testing metformin on breast cancer patients and having success with it--maybe going off the sugar would work just as well?
if someeone gave up sugar, but still ate foods that turned to sugars,,is that much of a difference??
i read a book years ago - that refined sugar is just about the root of all evil,,,pertaining to health..
ive done this for a couple months before- but a health professional said,,,eating high sugar fruits is about the same as eating an eclair...
Yes. About to read "Pure, White & Deadly" by John Yudkin....
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I don't think the occasional piece of fruit or bowl of pasta is the problem. I'm going to continue to eat small quantities of fruit and pasta, but the fruit juice and sugar-sweetened tomato sauces are both gone. I'll let you know how it works out.
Anybody willing to join me? Come on. Try it for a week if a month is too much. We'll compare notes as we go along.
I have given up refined sugar and have never felt better. I look forward to hearing your experiences, which I have no doubt will be positive.
Day three: feeling pretty good. I am craving sweets, but no headaches. Today my energy levels flagged, but that may be because I had a poor night's sleep. Got a bucketful of pistachios at the grocery store today for snacking. Eating a couple of pieces of fruit a day, plus whole grains. Bread is going to be a problem, because I'm accustomed to making honey whole wheat at home. Not sure how to feed the yeast without honey or table sugar. May stop by a brewing store for dextrose, which is straight glucose, and start experimenting.
Day three: feeling pretty good. I am craving sweets, but no headaches. Today my energy levels flagged, but that may be because I had a poor night's sleep. Got a bucketful of pistachios at the grocery store today for snacking. Eating a couple of pieces of fruit a day, plus whole grains. Bread is going to be a problem, because I'm accustomed to making honey whole wheat at home. Not sure how to feed the yeast without honey or table sugar. May stop by a brewing store for dextrose, which is straight glucose, and start experimenting.
RP, there is enough sugar in the flour to feed the yeast, but the thing to keep in mind is that the yeast eats the sugar so there isn't any left for you.
Good point. I think I'm going to have to some experimenting. I live at altitude, and home-made bread can be tricky here. Honey whole wheat is a fail-safe recipe for me. It's easy enough for me to do without bread -- I'm at home for lunch most of the time, so I can get my carbs from other sources -- but the rest of my family loves a good sandwich. While I'm not asking them to cut out sugar, I am working to eliminate the hidden sugars from the foods I buy and prepare for them.
Easy.
Don't eat prepackaged food.
They should be avoided anyway.
So that makes it a bit easier.
Most of what we buy isn't pre-packaged, but there are some things that I just don't have the time or inclination to make at home all the time, like mayonnaise and chicken broth. Both contain sugar.
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