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Giving up refined sugar

well, what an eye opener.

i havent had any refined sugar in food for nearly four weeks now. I still drink wine and dont intend to stop but no sugar in food.

no marmalade, chocolate, biscuits, anything out of a packet (except for salted popcorn) or bottled sauces.

plenty of natural sugar in fruit, veg, milk etc.

food tastes a lot sweeter - roast paranips yesterday were actually too sweet, fresh squeezed oj incredibly sweet.

noticeable weight loss, less of a hangover when I do drink wine, no teatime hunger pangs, less eating between meals. And no sugar cravings past the first fortnight. 

i was on hols somewhere hot. Yoghurt and mango for breakfast. Lunch of cheese/italuan ham and salad and bread. Fish for supprr. I know that all sounds super jealthy but it wasnt really, masses of wine and probably too much bread (pizza a few tines). It was a hol place where the food is pretty rank tbh. We go every year but usually i have toast and marmalade for breakfast and sneak choc and ice cream into the shopping basket, this time i didnt.

happened by accident - for once we could buy decent mangoes so i had those instead of toast and also we didnt bother with a big shop so no choc etc.

 i really love trifle. And ice cream and chocolate. But no cravings! It is true what they say, eating sugar just leads to more sugar. The mango sugar enters your system slowly, not in one big hit, it doesnt spike your blood sugar levels.

interestingly, once i pointed out to dr m about this no sugar thing he has gone all sugar fascist as well, examining everything in the supermarket trolley

don't bread and pizza bases contain refined sugar?  Well done, though minkie!

In the heatwave last summer I ate mostly greek yoghurt, fish and salad for a few weeks and I didn't even think about processed food at all after a while.  And when I did have crisps, say, they just didn't taste as nice as I remembered. 

All depends what counts as refined sugar innit

Well done tho.

i have a plain choc hobnob habit which is responsible for most of mine. Not sure I could ditch them tbh. 

No fruit but loads of veg can also go well too.... writing as someone who can eat 8 bananas in one go if left unchecked.

 

Watch out for US bread too (not that bread is that great a product for people either) as they put sugar in that too and all those awful sugar substitutes too could be avoided as they tend to prime the pump and make people want sugar.

TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR EXPENSIVE HOLIDAY.  I AM SO PLEASED YOU HAVEN'T EATEN SUGAR. IN FACT I AM GOING TO INSERT A SMILEY FACE.*

 

NO BUZZ WALK AWAY FROM THAT JOKE

Reading this thread whilst scoffing a bag of fudge, so basically sugar. 

When I get past the sugar cold turkey I’m fine but getting there is so hard. Day 1 is clearly going well for me...

" ... reduced sugar marmalade ... " 

If you like marmalade and don't want sugar, bake your own brown bread and put nice carefully cut little strips of orange peel in it.  Yum yum. 

 

 

You can eat actual oranges as well. Separately. You can of course eat the orange from which you can have sourced the peel. But baking the peel in bread makes it marmaladey. 

 

As I say, yum yum. 

 

 

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