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I'm off sugar.

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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I drink too much soda and eat too many sweets.

I've been wanting to get healthy for a while, and it's come to fruition today. I don't have time to work out properly, so I figure that this will be the next best thing. I'm really addicted to sugar.

Anyone want to join me?
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Yeah, I'll join you. I've been toying with the idea. I tried it two times, for a week at a time, a couple weeks ago, just to see what it would do to my body. No sugar for one week, then I'd eat some sweets. My stomach hurt after eating some Kit-Kats. I also got really tired after eating some brownies.

The first 3 days of getting off anything are usually the hardest. The biggest thing that makes you give in is lack of sleep. You MUST get enough consistant sleep if you want to not give in. Otherwise your body screams for easy junk food. It's a vicious cycle 🙂

I think it's like Indiana Jones, when he gets that gold statue off the pedestal - if you take it off, you have to put something in it's place. So you better have a good diet and easily accessible healthy snacks like carrots and stuff, otherwise you'll just crave junk food.
 
Originally posted by: Kaido
You MUST get enough consistant sleep if you want to not give in. Otherwise your body screams for easy junk food. It's a vicious cycle 🙂

I think it's like Indiana Jones, when he gets that gold statue off the pedestal - if you take it off, you have to put something in it's place. So you better have a good diet and easily accessible healthy snacks like carrots and stuff, otherwise you'll just crave junk food.
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Well, getting adequate sleep is just impossible for me. There's no way to swing it. I'm going to have to dial up the will power. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: xospec1alk
i've been off sodas since december of last year. its weird how sweet it can taste when you've haven't had it for a while.
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That's why once you go diet soda, you don't go back!
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Kaido
You MUST get enough consistant sleep if you want to not give in. Otherwise your body screams for easy junk food. It's a vicious cycle 🙂

I think it's like Indiana Jones, when he gets that gold statue off the pedestal - if you take it off, you have to put something in it's place. So you better have a good diet and easily accessible healthy snacks like carrots and stuff, otherwise you'll just crave junk food.
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Well, getting adequate sleep is just impossible for me. There's no way to swing it. I'm going to have to dial up the will power. 🙂
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haha good luck! I hope you're a stronger man than I am 😀
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude

hell no.

good luck!

🙂
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I'd like to know what it's like to not have a gut. I'm not obese or anything, I just have a decent root-beer belly. The thing is, I'm allergic to aspartame and sucralose, so diet versions of everything are out.
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I hear ya. I was mostly being facetious as I consume much less refined sugars than I used to say 5 years ago. All in all, I drink about 1 12 ounce homemade root beer a day (corn sugar) and then the usual sources of carbs in everyday food (and beer of course).

 
..I stoped using table sugar many years ago. And no longer use aspertame(nutrasweet) or equivalents. It's good to be off that stuff..
 
Whew, this not eating sugar stuff will make you *tired*. I've been running on fumes since about 1pm and I just got home from work.

People at work who've studied these things said it will take a week or so.
 
Xylitol will give you the energy of carbs without the triggering an insulin spike, as it can be absorbed directly by the cells. Insulin isn't called the fat horomone for nothing.

Xylitol is also naturally occuring and your body even makes it. Xylitol + kool-aid or other unsweetened soft drink == Healthy soda replacement

Good for the teeth too, because the bacteria that causes cavities tries to absorb it, but can't digests. germ equivalnet of indigestion
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...=PubMed&list_uids=795260&dopt=Abstract

"After 2 years the mean increment of decayed, missed and filled tooth surfaces was 7.2 in the S-group, 3.8 in the F-group, and 0.0 in the X-group."
 
wow. good luck! 🙂 keep it up!

i guess im just lucky in that i dont really care for sugar or otherwise sweet stuff... in fact it just makes me sick more than anything....
 
I've been off sugar for a while (started back in my low-carb diet days). I no longer adhere to any particular diet, but I stuck with the no-sugar thing because now everything with sugar is too sweet.
 
Originally posted by: gscone
I just got off sugar yesterday. I'm planning on shedding a few pounds before I go to Atlantis.
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Well, it's been two weeks and I went up six pounds, now I'm back down to one pound more than I was before I gave up sugar...
 
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