Cutting back on sugar

Veritas

Veritas

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So after watching a good documentary called "FED UP"

I am slowly cutting back on how much Sugar I take in, I prefer taking natural sugar through fruits etc,this is my 2nd day, and I am already feeling the affects of it, my tongue is tinkling for more, and getting more lazier, and getting small headaches, have you guys tried this before?
 


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Veritas said:
So after watching a good documentary called "FED UP"

I am slowly cutting back on how much Sugar I take in, I prefer taking natural sugar through fruits etc,this is my 2nd day, and I am already feeling the affects of it, my tongue is tinkling for more, and getting more lazier, and getting small headaches, have you guys tried this before?
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Been doing it for over a year now.

With the exception of sugar causing inflammation, I look at it as a hormonal issue where I aim to reduce insulin as most as possible. The only way to beat a low sugar/carb lifestyle in that respect is not eating at all. Everything we eat raises insulin (fat is minimal to zero), so just don't eat. I now fast intermittently everyday for a minimum of 12 hours (usually 14-16 hours).

The effects you are experience could be because you have not adapted to burning fat for energy.
 
SeoReborn said:
I now fast intermittently everyday for a minimum of 12 hours (usually 14-16 hours).
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Me too. It actually comes very natural to me now after about a year. I can eat in the morning (IF from after dinner to around 1 pm'ish), but it's not something I crave at all.

You probably already know about it, but if not, I'd recommend Eat Stop Eat. Great and fast read which will really get you hooked on IF.
 
I stopped having cravings for sugar, cookies, whatever a few years ago - any bad carbs I intake is beer-related - and I only feel better. Apples, pears, peaches, pineapple, pomegranate tastes accentuate hard. I keep some apples or strawberries for sugar and it feels like plenty when I want that.
 
The Virgin diet by J J Virgin is a good start to wean yourself off of sugar. The slow-carb diet by Tim Ferriss pretty much cuts off all sugars including fruits. I have been trying to talk the fam into going all in, but it gets kind of hard when you realize just how prevalent sugar is our food supply. That shit is in just about everything it seems.
 
Sugar is a drug and it is in everything that's packaged as food. If you know how to read food labels, you'll catch all the tricks they use. Sometimes they feed it to animals, which is then passed on to humans.

The real reason is to close you up spiritually. It is just as addictive as porn and meaningless sex. If you eat any type of packaged food, you're eating sugar.

They call it by different names now, but most humans refuse to read or do basic research.

You cannot slowly cut back. Either you make a commitment to eliminate it from your diet or not. I still have friends slowly cutting back from smoking cigarettes or getting high.

I have also learned not to judge, for it is your body and the consequences of what you eat, drink or get high are yours to bear.
 
I've been trying to control amount of sugar I take in. Read a lot of positive stories of not taking a sugar full year. The best one is even you don't workout and stay at home on the PC all the time, by not taking any sugar you could lose more then 20kg in a year. Incredible if you ask me.

Even though I'm trying hard to cut sugar, it's difficult. After more then 5 days of no chocolate candy as such, the sugar craving becomes insane. JUST NEED TO TAKE ONE PIECE OF MILK CHOCOLATE CANDY. I hope it's not as bad I think it is to take one candy a day. Trying hard to cut it down. Just got few more pieces left in the fridge.

Regular sugar intake for me is this, I can't remove it:

3/4 flat teaspoon sugar daily in the morning in tea.
1 teaspoon flat during the evening in milk.
home made low sugar content natural jam every morning

I'm trying to avoid all sort of desserts like right now there is absolute delicious cake in the fridge. I don't eat it. Sometimes I have a bread of nutella over peanut+jelly. Read on Bodybuilding Nuttella ain't that bad as many people use it for bulking but meh. It's tons of sugar in the end.

But it was my mistake buying it and now I have to finish it. But as of right now I'm thinking I can give it to my nieces to finish it.

Oh yea, sugar free green tea ain't that bad.
 
fartyman said:
I've been trying to control amount of sugar I take in. Read a lot of positive stories of not taking a sugar full year. The best one is even you don't workout and stay at home on the PC all the time, by not taking any sugar you could lose more then 20kg in a year. Incredible if you ask me.

Even though I'm trying hard to cut sugar, it's difficult. After more then 5 days of no chocolate candy as such, the sugar craving becomes insane. JUST NEED TO TAKE ONE PIECE OF MILK CHOCOLATE CANDY. I hope it's not as bad I think it is to take one candy a day. Trying hard to cut it down. Just got few more pieces left in the fridge.

Regular sugar intake for me is this, I can't remove it:

3/4 flat teaspoon sugar daily in the morning in tea.
1 teaspoon flat during the evening in milk.
home made low sugar content natural jam every morning

I'm trying to avoid all sort of desserts like right now there is absolute delicious cake in the fridge. I don't eat it. Sometimes I have a bread of nutella over peanut+jelly. Read on Bodybuilding Nuttella ain't that bad as many people use it for bulking but meh. It's tons of sugar in the end.

But it was my mistake buying it and now I have to finish it. But as of right now I'm thinking I can give it to my nieces to finish it.

Oh yea, sugar free green tea ain't that bad.
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wtf was this. Sugar in your late night milk?
 
Goodcat said:
Me too. It actually comes very natural to me now after about a year. I can eat in the morning (IF from after dinner to around 1 pm'ish), but it's not something I crave at all.

You probably already know about it, but if not, I'd recommend Eat Stop Eat. Great and fast read which will really get you hooked on IF.
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Not read that book. I gathered the information from different sources. Leangains.com is a good site. Heres a good review on it:

The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Human and Animal Health

I finish dinner by 7pm. Then I break the (16-17 hours) fast at 10am-11am with tea and coconut oil that keeps me in ketosis. I don't eat solid food until at least 1pm (6 hour eating window, so a 18 hour daily fast if not considering tea). I do have a cup of tea at 9pm and so i said 12-14 hour fast previously. What do you drink during your fasting period, just water?

I actually did 2 times 24 hour fasts per week for a few months before cutting out all sugars/carb. Dropped it down to 1 per week after starting low carb. I now do IF as its convenient.

Fasting deserves it own thread.
 
Goodcat said:
Me too. It actually comes very natural to me now after about a year. I can eat in the morning (IF from after dinner to around 1 pm'ish), but it's not something I crave at all.

You probably already know about it, but if not, I'd recommend Eat Stop Eat. Great and fast read which will really get you hooked on IF.
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I see what you did there.
 
things like carrots start to taste mildly sweet. Meanwhile, sweet potatoes start to taste like candy.
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That is normal, even if you eat moderate amounts of sugar. If you couldn't taste the sweetness of carrots before, you must have eaten pounds of it daily.
 
Goodcat said:
You probably already know about it, but if not, I'd recommend Eat Stop Eat. Great and fast read which will really get you hooked on IF.
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For anyone who wants to check out the PDF of the book before possibly buying it from a shady ebook sales page:

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http://www.filedropper.com/eat-stop-eat-by-brad-pilon
 
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SeoReborn said:
Not read that book. I gathered the information from different sources. Leangains.com is a good site. Heres a good review on it:

The Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Human and Animal Health

I finish dinner by 7pm. Then I break the (16-17 hours) fast at 10am-11am with tea and coconut oil that keeps me in ketosis. I don't eat solid food until at least 1pm (6 hour eating window, so a 18 hour daily fast if not considering tea). I do have a cup of tea at 9pm and so i said 12-14 hour fast previously. What do you drink during your fasting period, just water?

I actually did 2 times 24 hour fasts per week for a few months before cutting out all sugars/carb. Dropped it down to 1 per week after starting low carb. I now do IF as its convenient.

Fasting deserves it own thread.
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IIRC intermittent fasting already has its own thread.

My schedule follows yours. Dinner at around 7-8 PM, fast until 1 PM'ish (depends on when I train). I'll then eat and go train an hour or so later.

What do you drink during your fasting period, just water?
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I start every morning by drinking 0,75 l (25 oz) water to get myself hydrated, and then I drink coffee.

I've tried the coconut oil/MCT/butter coffee, but frankly I can't be arsed to blend and shit and honestly it doesn't taste very good either.

I've tried the whole-day fasting as well, but it fucks up my training. IF as described above works with a training schedule.
 
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