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How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by chollida1 »

waynenilsen wrote: post #6
breck wrote: post #4

I'm 254 days into switching to a ketogenic diet (complete with at home instant ketone finger prick blood tests using the very affordable keto mojo), and can't believe I waited so long. I was roughly surfing sugar highs for 39 years. Would highly recommend looking into this if you are a sugar/carb addict like I was.

How much protein can you eat before getting kicked out of ketosis?

why would protein kick you out of ketosis, on Keto alot of people, especially athletes load up on as much protein as they can and use fat to get the rest of their calories.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

richrichie wrote: post #2

Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Very difficult to create isolation environment, unless one goes full Ted Kaczynski. I don’t want to discourage the author, but i am old, so yeah been there, done that. But avoiding sugar like its evil is not healthy. Nor is it sustainable. It appears that the author is probably young and single. That may he…

> Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc).

Those should all be rare occasions.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by chollida1 »

breck wrote: post #4

I'm 254 days into switching to a ketogenic diet (complete with at home instant ketone finger prick blood tests using the very affordable keto mojo), and can't believe I waited so long. I was roughly surfing sugar highs for 39 years. Would highly recommend looking into this if you are a sugar/carb addict like I was.

My biggest problem with Keto is that is that one bad meal and your out.

I found it was just such a pain in the as for other as much as it was for me. Every meal at someone elses house I had to make my specific nutritional requirements available to the host, which then puts them out.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by itomato »

richrichie wrote: post #2

Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Very difficult to create isolation environment, unless one goes full Ted Kaczynski. I don’t want to discourage the author, but i am old, so yeah been there, done that. But avoiding sugar like its evil is not healthy. Nor is it sustainable. It appears that the author is probably young and single. That may he…

I think a big piece is that accepting it as culturally important is not healthy or sustainable.

You're not a victim of evil, you're just a product of that unmotivated culture.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by zug_zug »

I'm not sure I believed in sugar as an addiction at first. Then I tried this keto diet because I had seen my friend try it and he lost a lot of weight.

And then I had this phenomenon that was so strong that I still remember it years later - I started having fantasies about soda/milkshakes in the middle of a workday. Like so intense/ongoing that the only thing I can compare them to is a teen's sexual fantasies. Mind you I wasn't even somebody who drank soda every day or week.

I found some voice in the back of my head saying "We could literally go get a cherry coke in under 4 minutes, there's a CVS around the corner, or a root beer? Or a root beer float? Dr pepper? We could get two." I ended up drinking diet soda for a few weeks (which I normally find disgusting).

Anyways after a certain point (3 months?) the cravings died and never came back the same way. Your mileage may vary.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by yellow_postit »

richrichie wrote: post #2

Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Very difficult to create isolation environment, unless one goes full Ted Kaczynski. I don’t want to discourage the author, but i am old, so yeah been there, done that. But avoiding sugar like its evil is not healthy. Nor is it sustainable. It appears that the author is probably young and single. That may he…

Michael Pollan’s : “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” continues to be a useful way for me to look at food X life.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by marginalia_nu »

richrichie wrote: post #2

Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Very difficult to create isolation environment, unless one goes full Ted Kaczynski. I don’t want to discourage the author, but i am old, so yeah been there, done that. But avoiding sugar like its evil is not healthy. Nor is it sustainable. It appears that the author is probably young and single. That may he…

Low carb has been around for a while, enough that people are aware it's a thing, and it's not that hard to pass up on the celebratory sugar, if you want just say it's for a medical condition and don't elaborate further and people will generally respect that.

You aren't really telling us why this is unhealthy and unsustainable and stressful. In my experience avoiding sugar in the past, it's anything but.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by m000 »

richrichie wrote: post #2

Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Very difficult to create isolation environment, unless one goes full Ted Kaczynski. I don’t want to discourage the author, but i am old, so yeah been there, done that. But avoiding sugar like its evil is not healthy. Nor is it sustainable. It appears that the author is probably young and single. That may he…

> Very difficult to create isolation environment

If you eat at home, it's actually pretty easy: Just go to the supermarket with a full belly. It's amazing how disciplined one can be in their groceries shopping when they shop with a full stomach.

When, eventually, your fridge and pantry aren't stocked with sugary junk, it's a change of environment! After that, it's pretty much out of sight, out of mind. The ocassional indulgence at a social event is not the end of the world.

The real problem is that many city people don't really plan their groceries, but just open doordash/flink/gorillas/whatever when they are already hungry and tired. No good choices are going to come from that habit.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by silverquiet »

chollida1 wrote: post #11
waynenilsen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much protein can you eat before getting kicked out of ketosis?

why would protein kick you out of ketosis, on Keto alot of people, especially athletes load up on as much protein as they can and use fat to get the rest of their calories.

I was under the impression that the body can synthesize sugars if given enough protein.
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