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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 stranded22 »

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…

Last a week?

Amateur - I can munch through 100% chocolate quite easily (Montezuma Orange is my favourite for UK people - buy in Sainsburys)

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Post by coldtea »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not implying, it's a settled thing.

The ocassional fruit is ok, but fructose is bad, and smoothies are basically sugar bombs.

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Post by coldtea »

gnz11 wrote: post #85
lambdaone wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The parent poster is right in that pure fructose is probably worse for you than an equivalent amount of pure sucrose. But the way that fructose is delivered to your body by digesting fruit - slowly, and in conjuction with other materials, in a way that we have evolved to tolerate - is entirely different from eating the pure chemical.

The amount of fruit you’d have to consume to ingest unhealthy levels of fructose is astronomical. Worrying about whether fruit is unhealthy is most likely causing you more harm than the fructose in fruit. Don’t worry about eating fruit.

>The amount of fruit you’d have to consume to ingest unhealthy levels of fructose is astronomical.

What's "unhealthy" here? LD50?

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

cubefox wrote: post #29

Quitting cold turkey after a change of environment (moving somewhere else) is a good tip not just for addiction, but for any change in habit. However, a more practical approach is to reduce the dosage slowly. That works especially well for sweet drinks. If you have a soda maker, you can slowly reduce the amount of syrup you use. After a while, your tolerance for sweetness goes down, so things that previously felt not…

I go for very low sweetness drinks too. I don’t have a soda maker but I buy cans of plain sparkling water and add a dash of store bought kombucha to the can. Usually I take one sip off a fresh can and then pour in a little kombucha. You can buy flavored sparkling water but the flavorings they tend to use don’t sit well with my stomach. The right flavor of kombucha does the trick for me nicely though.

I would feel sick if I ever tried to drink a Coca-Cola. It’s incredible how much sugar they put in those things.

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #92
cubefox wrote: post #29

Quitting cold turkey after a change of environment (moving somewhere else) is a good tip not just for addiction, but for any change in habit. However, a more practical approach is to reduce the dosage slowly. That works especially well for sweet drinks. If you have a soda maker, you can slowly reduce the amount of syrup you use. After a while, your tolerance for sweetness goes down, so things that previously felt not…

i stopped drinking soft drinks out of spite for my siblings. now they taunt me but i dont feel any urge to drink regardless of how it takes. for me it tastes like sugar water

I love sugar water. On my new ADHD meds I finally managed to kick soda for a few weeks, but I think I'll limit myself to one can a week on Saturdays because I miss the feeling. It's the only drug I do and all my friends are stoners, so..

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Post by snvzz »

coldtea wrote: post #118
snvzz wrote: post #105

Very long article, for something so simple. Stop eating i.e. fast. The cravings go away within 48h. Done, solved.

This is like: - You're depressed? Just cheer up! - Gee, why haven't I thought of that! Fasting wont take away the cravings, if anything it will make them worse (after a few days you feel very hungry and all you can think about is food, then there's a period where you don't mind, then you are starving again, and so on). And even if it did, once you stop the fast you get the cravings again.

>This is like:

Exercising willpower is an important life skill. Being able to will be extremely helpful in way too many occasions to count.

>Fasting wont take away the cravings

It will, actually. Sugar cravings are very different relative to regular hunger, and are really gone for good within 48h.

>after a few days you feel very hungry and all you can think about is food,

The "all you can think" is just not true. It's just regular hunger.

You can then eat. Just not sugar, but actual nutritious food.

I'd suggest a cadence of one meal a day, or two but not far apart from each other (e.g. 18:6 intermittent fasting).

It is actually and, quite surprisingly for many, easy to do this.

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Post by alargemoose »

throwaway7ahgb wrote: post #114
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…

One little tip for people trying to move to black coffee from milk and/or sugar: Try to find a good light roast, not dark or medium. Light roasts are usually less bitter which is why milk is sometimes added to cut the bitterness. Coffee preferences are very subjective, this is what worked for me, YMMMV.

On the same note, also try Cold brewed coffee, it has lower acidity than hot brewed coffee.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by coldtea »

medler wrote: post #91
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 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

"In pricinple" or actually measured cholesterol levels? Because the latter doesn't happen.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by hombre_fatal »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #125
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i stopped drinking soft drinks out of spite for my siblings. now they taunt me but i dont feel any urge to drink regardless of how it takes. for me it tastes like sugar water

I love sugar water. On my new ADHD meds I finally managed to kick soda for a few weeks, but I think I'll limit myself to one can a week on Saturdays because I miss the feeling. It's the only drug I do and all my friends are stoners, so..

Why not just a sugar-free option like Coke Zero?
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