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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 Dolores12 »

faramarz wrote: post #44

A decade ago I got into intermitted fasting and forced myself to drink my coffee black at work. Going from a double-double (x2 cream, x2 sugar) at timmies to black. big change but the IF motivation for mental clarity, and increasing my metabolism worked out so well that I didn't mess with the regiment until recently adding oat milk to my coffee, or butter. its really about dealing down the dark coffee flavour. beyond…

After not eating sweet food for some time, i noticed usual food like milk becomes sweet. And mango is just not palatable. Too much sugar, for no benefit.

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Post by medler »

breck wrote: post #97
medler wrote: post #91

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My problem with keto is that most people on it eat so much saturated fat that their cholesterol goes through the roof, and that’s really bad for cardiovascular health. (Keto communities deal with this by preaching an anti-science, cholesterol-denialist dogma, but that dogma has always been driven by wishful thinking).

> My problem with keto is that most people on it eat so much saturated fat that their cholesterol goes through the roof Dataset needed

Here are a couple of studies:

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/popular-keto-diet-may-be-linked-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10121782/

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by Dolores12 »

sedatk wrote: post #64
kzrdude wrote: post #32

Replacement works for me. Replaced all added sugars stuff (drinks, ice cream, cookies) with fruit and the difference was very noticeable. Fruit also has its own kind of sugar, but my body runs differently on that compared with food with added sugar.

Fructose (the sugar that comes from fruits) is more harmful than glucose though.

With every fruit you get healthy dose of fiber that helps digestive system to push residuals out. 3 bananas that will make you full equals 2 cans of 330ml cola and i bet you still will want to eat after that.

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Post by m000 »

swiftcoder wrote: post #35
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #12

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> Sugar is everywhere, cheap, legal and culturally important (birthday parties, weddings, farewell parties, etc). Those should all be rare occasions.

You don't work in a very big office before there is birthday cake in the break room on the regular. Or the Girl Scout cookies someone's parents are desperately trying to get rid of. Or the left-over pastries from that executive meeting. Or your manager brought in a box of donuts to "boost morale"... Dieting in an office setting is often quite difficult

One more reason for people not wanting to return to the office I guess.

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Post by richrichie »

itomato wrote: post #14
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.

Eating a slice of cake with coffee with your partner or friend or coworkers, enjoying a bowl of ice-cream with your children are important to a life well lived. Of course, standard disclaimers apply i.e. eat good quality cakes and ice cream, etc.

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Post by devilbunny »

ralferoo wrote: post #78
devilbunny wrote: post #47

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Sure, you're out of ketosis. Anyone who says you have to be in ketosis all the time for low-carb to work at weight loss is confusing medical ketogenic diets (e.g., for epilepsy) with practical ones. Medical keto diets don't have leeway because they depend on the ketone bodies as an antiepileptic drug. Weight loss keto is more about taming the cravings and getting you away from junk food. I lost my weight over a decad…

Actually, there seems to be some benefit in having a "regular" meal every now even then, perhaps even once a week - I read once that your body can adapt too well to using Ketones and you stop losing weight at the speed you did at the start (although my caveat to that is that the first time I did keto, I lost pretty consistently a bit over 0.5kg per week for about 9 months apart from a couple of 2-3 weeks plateaus). E…

I’m not you, so I can believe it doesn’t work for you, but I don’t have trouble with ditching carbs, probably because I’m almost never a sugar monster. Just not my thing. Lucky for me, sucks for you. Appetite is complex and while I’m not one of those people who can eat junk ravenously and be thin, I don’t have that to deal with. Best wishes.

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Post by jakubmazanec »

gnz11 wrote: post #76
sedatk wrote: post #64

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Fructose (the sugar that comes from fruits) is more harmful than glucose though.

Come on, are you seriously implying fruit is somehow bad for you now?

This is some latest research on this topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10363705/

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Post by grecy »

ralferoo wrote: post #52

> When I returned from my trip, my fridge was empty, so I resisted the temptation to buy those products. This has to be my reality. If I buy treats, no matter how good my intentions are to make them last, they just don't survive in the cupboard more than a couple of days. I have to leave my kitchen mostly empty apart from: diet soda, meat, cheese, yoghurt, peanut butter. Everything else is just too addictive and I ke…

Much alike a recovering alcoholic, it's easier just not to go into a bar.

I do exactly the same thing by not having a phone. I know I would be that guy always looking at it instead of engaging with the real world. So I just don't have one. It's better that way.

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Post by coldtea »

inSenCite wrote: post #90

Everyone's struggle with addiction is different. I'm glad this person found a good way for them and I'm sure it might help others as well. Don't be discouraged if it doesn't always work for you, maybe you just need to try a different approach.

>Everyone's struggle with addiction is different

Not that different, since people still share billions of years of evolutionary mechanisms, and thousands of years of social conditioning.

At best there are a few different kinds of struggle with addiction.

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