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I appear to have lost 10 LBS the easy way

moonbogg

moonbogg

Lifer
I stopped drinking Pepsi. 10LBS fell off my body and I have a big ass gap between my shorts and my stomach now. My wife told me that I was drinking a lot of calories, but I sort of didn't think it was a big deal. I figured I'd just pee it all out or that it didn't really matter.
Well, it appears that by not drinking soda 3 times a day with each meal, I cut out roughly 600 calories from my diet every single damn day. In addition, I cut way back on the ice cream and cookies and stuff at night. As far as food goes, I eat until my ass is stuffed like a turkey, just like I always did. 10lbs fell right off in just a few months. I weighed about 183 and now I am 173 and the big difference is in how thin my waist looks. My pants just want to fall off now.

Pepsi. It makes you fat. Its like sticking a straw in a cake. Don't do it.
 
It's the first thing I tell people that ask me for diet advice (I lost over 100lbs in the last few years, so people ask me about weight loss a lot). I ask them if they drink soda/bottled fruit juice/beer and tell them to chill out if not eliminate that at least for a couple of months. Good on you (and your wife).
 
Hey, moonbogg. The 90s called. They want their weight loss tips back.

lol good on you but srsly cutting out sugary drinks is something that everyone should do, not just those that want to lose weight. Sugary drinks ruin health. If it was against the law to put sugar in a drink - coffee included - imagine how much diabetes would be prevented in the USA alone. Staggering. And SO SIMPLE.

I can count on one hand the number of non-diet pops I've had in the last 5 years. Even diet ones... two hands, 4 months.
 
There's the adage, that is basically useless because it's TOO pithy: "Eat less, move more".

It's also misleading, because it sells the idea that it's 50/50 diet and exercise. People think they need to exercise like a maniac, which isn't true. It's more like "Eat less, Eat less, Eat less, Eat less, move more". Or as I saw it stated another way, "weight is lost in the kitchen, health is gained in the gym", which makes it a little more clear where the priorities need to be if you're goal is strictly to lose weight.
 
Yeah it should be common sense, but it still isn't. Its a drink, so the health effects are underestimated. Each soda is like eating a candy bar. I didn't see it that way, even though I knew it was sugary and was told countless times. I had to see the weight come off and I had to be surprised myself to really get it.
I ate pumpkin pie and ice cream last night. It was father's day though. Good excuse right?
 
Then it's just a matter of "seeing" it. Pretty hard for most of us who were fed a diet of sugar since very young, but it _is_ common sense.

You also begin to realize that the appeal of many foods that you don't immediately think of as "sugary" is due to the sweetness. I have a bottled salad dressing that I like - Wish-Bone's Red Wine Vinaigrette - that I use when I'm in a rush or feeling lazy. And it contains a lot of sugar and corn syrup. Even Sriracha chili sauce has sugar as a main ingredient, and I'm certain that's one of the big reasons that I and so many others love it.


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Sugar is too broad of a term. Sugar could be Fructose, Sucrose, Glucose. Since starches breakdown into Glucose and can be used by pretty much any part of the body, then we can deduce that glucose (Corn Syrup) and starches effectively refill muscle glycogen stores.

The reason you might want a starch over glucose, though, is the GI speed at which it is absorbed into the system.

Glucose is not evil... Even consuming large amounts of it. When you eat more starch or glucose than your body can store, then it starts to be a problem. So if you are sedentary, don't workout, then of course glucose and starch in even moderate amounts might be too much.

That said, Fructose (fruit sugar) and Sucrose (table sugar, HFCS) present other problems, but only when they exceed moderate amounts. Fructose can really only be metabolized by your liver and it is believe to only be handle around 50g a day of pure fructose. Since sucrose is 50:50 and most HFCS is 50:50, that means only 100g of those per person. Even if you are active, exceeding these amounts on a regular basis isn't recommended.

That said, there was a study that said the GLUT5 transporter was able to metabolize much more than 50 of fructose per day when it was added with glucose - hence, table sugar or most forms of HFCS would be included and so maybe 50g per day can be exceeded safely without excess being converted to adipose tissue.

That said, when we talk about sugar, we should be clear as to what we are talking about and also keep in mind some starches turn into pure glucose at a rate almost as fast as dextrose!

In other words, eating 400 cals of white baked potatoes is turned to glucose almost as fast as 400 grams of corn syrup. Of course, neither of these are typically ingested by themselves, so a slower GI can be expected.

Glucose isn't evil, not even close. For that matter, neither is table sugar or HFCS in low to moderate amounts.
 
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