I tried not buying food with added sugar but it’s surprisingly difficult. Here is an interesting analysis I did some time ago which shows that for half of the food items, sugar is the main ingredient: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/scraping-walmart
How I overcame my addiction to sugar
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#142> 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…
This used to work for me. I'm also fairly frugal by nature, so it was very easy to just not buy the stuff while grocery shopping.
But then I got married, and had offspring. I don't do the majority of the shopping any more, and no longer have absolute control of what enters my pantry. And so now I eat everything.
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#143Quitting 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…
Cold Turkey has always worked best for me. Quitting smoking by gradual reduction just never seemed practical. If it works for others, more power to them!
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#145Sugar is one of my downfalls, but unfortunately I have to keep some sugar around for when I have a blood glucose low (I'm diabetic and have a pump). Of course, I could focus on more healthy versions of sugar (like juice instead of candy), which I almost never do.
Fruit juice is basically liquid candy. For most people there's nothing wrong with drinking a little bit but the effects on blood sugar are similar to eating candy. (This is not medical advice for diabetics.)
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As soon as I stopped eating sugar, I started craving fruits intensely. My body began demanding compensation.
And eating fruits it's almost equally bad sugar wise, especially drinking them in smoothies and such.
Nonsense. Fruit has fiber and all sorts of nutrient benefits. Even your smoothie claim is false: https://www.stylist.co.uk/fitness-health/nutrition/smoothies...
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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.
Oh, sorry, I wasn't trying to give you advice as it sounded like your result was pretty stable - was just replying for others reading to let them know that sometimes a carb break in the middle of keto actually helps, and it was meant to agree with your sentiment that you don't need to worry about the odd thing here and there. The rest was just my experience of after I'd got to my goal weight on keto, of trying to sto…
Your comment was appropriate and well-measured. No offense taken. I wish you well.
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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/
This doesn't answer the question. The question is if fruit are associated with negative health outcomes in a human population.
What you're doing is saying inflammation is bad and then inferring that exercise is bad because it increases inflammation.
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#149Replacement 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.
I use a GCM and one thing I've noticed about fruits in general is that the glucose spike is short. Things level off on the graph fairly quickly with berries. Although there are some fruits that do cause a significant spike. Fruits like grapes, pineapple and bananas are the worst ones.
Yes generally, whole fruits are considered healthy in any quantity from what research I’ve heard about.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
As soon as I stopped eating sugar, I started craving fruits intensely. My body began demanding compensation.
And eating fruits it's almost equally bad sugar wise, especially drinking them in smoothies and such.
Generally, whole fruits are considered to have positive health effects, even in studies of patients with diabetes, at nearly any quantities.