Giving up Sugar

I see white bread getting a few mentions. I thought recently I'd try and be a bit healthier so I gave up white bread and started buying Kingsmill Wholemeal bread instead. Well * me, I looked at the wholemeal bread the other day and compared it to a white loaf that was already in the house. It has more sugar, more fat and more salt in it than the white loaf has! I was not impressed.

 

Looks like you got the wrong wholemeal bread :icon_mrgreen:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/hea...n-your-healthy-brown-and-wholemeal-bread.html

They don't make this * easy Marky :smiley-laughing002:

 

* sakes. What kind of wholemeal bread IS good to buy then? Hovis is out. Warburton's is out. Kingsmill is out. That's just about all my local supermarket stocks.

 

I eat wholemeal bread for the fibre content, and dont really care about the sugar to be honest.
I eat far too much sugar, but i also try and eat relatively healthy, sugar apart.

I dont eat fatty meat and rarely have a pizza of McD or chippy.

You cant get too * about it;you need to have a quality of life and i enjoy my diet.Curries, pasta, eggsetc, but i try and eat veg when i can.

I take a sweetener and honey in my tea/coffee.

I eat Warburtons like the loaf featured, but have rolls maybe 3 times a fortnight.

 

Difficult for me but i need to give up sugar due to my Diabetes.
Get very irritable due to lack of sleep.

 

I pretty much have zero sugar in my diet.

For about 6 months now I have been following a cyclical ketogenic diet that my daily macronutrient breakdown is 65% of my calories come from fat 30% protein and 5% carbs.

It pretty much equates to less than 50g of carbs a day (a slice and a half of bread in reality)

Yes in the first couple of weeks you get a slight headache as your sugar addiction leaves you nut after that you will feel 100x better.

I will post more about it when I'm on my computer but aye get sugar to * it's the worst things going.

 

Although I will say if you are still eating brown bread etc you won't experience "the flu"

Granted, you will still feel like * because a substance that your body is addicted to is greatly reduced.

 

I tried this a few months back. Felt like I was going to collapse at work. I'd feel shaky as * half way through my working day but a red bull or a Snickers/mars bar done the trick.
Tried substituting the sweets for a banana but I still felt like I was needing sugar to keep me going.

I walk about 8 miles or so a day with my work so I'll need to find a healthier alternative to red bull or lucozade.

Outside of work I've found it a bit easier to cut it out.

 

11 weeks without a sweet,fizzy drink ,biscuit or crisp. Stick to it it really is beneficial.

 

only ever taken a wee drop of milk in my tea and rarely touch fizzy drink but do partake of a few lagers at the weekend . white bread for sandwiches and wouldn't eat one of those pre cooked meals if you paid me .

 

Stopped eating sugar (fizzy juice, sweets, chocolate, fruit, fruit juice etc) and pretty much all carbs after Christmas and have lost almost a stone in weight that I didn't realise I needed to lose!

Had the flu type symptoms for a week or so but have never felt as healthy as I do just now. Called the Hardcombe diet I believe.


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I'm trying to eat a lot healthier, it was after watching a Netflix doc, can't remember it's name maybe Food Inc or something? It was frightening.

Anyway, I still love a morning coffee, I used to take 2 full tea spoons of sugar, now I take none and as you said, after around a week or so I preferred none. I honestly struggle to drink it with sugar now it tastes far too sweet.

 

I gave up Sugar in tea years ago. I switched to sweeteners then I got suspicious about them and stopped them too. I remember reading that the body treats sugar like an enemy as it causes alsorts of inflammation that we're not aware of and is linked to ill health.

When they brought out low fat foods telling us that it was the fat that was responsible for our ills they later discovered that our ills weren't going away and it was in fact the Sugar that was the problem.

Wish I could give up biscuits and chocolate!

 

Mate, chocolate is so easy to make it's unreal.

Cocoa powder.
Coconut oil.
Stevia (healthy sweetner substitute).
Salt (healthier the salt the better. I used Himalayan or black dead sea salt).

That's your base right there. Then you can add whatever you want. Nuts, fruit, chili powder, whatever.

Requires no cooking other than melting the oil.

Healthy chocolate and a clear conscience as no animals were abused in the farming of milk.

 

Food Inc. If you think that is frightening you should watch Earthlings.

 

There is a bit more to it than that....

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=132598293

 

Lots of studies coming out showing a plant based vegan diet is the best all round diet. Less likely to get ill, quicker recovery from illness or injury, way less likely to form cancer or heart disease, no need for energy supplements and so on.