Been able to stick to all my diet goals except sugar.
Cut out pop, caffeine, coffee, fast food
I am also now on day 4 of working out and walking every day!
Feeling super motivated and excited to get my health back!
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Discussion
Sugar is a tough on. I cut out the drinks with added sugar first because that's how the bulk of sugar is consumed imo. Then moved on to smaller things like cookies and ice cream.
Have a bit of fruit, or a yoghurt with local honey to wean yourself off
Easier to do it the other way if you ask me. There are so many things that can approximate sugar for your brain. My favorite it raw cacao, your brain just associates it with sweetness that isn't really there. Then you could cut down on the other stuff once you have sugar under control.
I'd much rather be a sugarless caffeine addict than a caffeineless sugar addict any day.
Just change the type of sugar. Get honey, maple syrup, and fruit.
Honey and maple syrup are identical to "sugar". They are all a combination of fructose and glucose.
The only difference is that the latter two are syrups, i.e., they are dissolved in water, and because they're biological products they will also contain marginal amounts of other compounds, generally speaking minerals that have nothing special to them and can be gotten from plenty of other places without the associated sugar.
So yes, sure, they have "less sugar" thatn pure solid sugar cubes, but that's like saying that Coke is better than sugar because it has less sugar than sugar cubes... Which makes it also "better" than honey and maple syrup of course.
Clearly you didn’t listen to the podcast episode. 😆
It's called opportunity cost.
If the video says that honey is some magical nectar panacea for all ills, then I would have wasted my time listen to some fraudster selling snake oil.
If the video sticks to scientific facts and explains that honey is just water with sugar, then I already know that, so I'm wasting my time too.
I'd rather use my time doing useful stuff.
Lol. Ok.
If it’s worth the opportunity, the podcaster is a PA turned MD (if you like appeals to authority at all 🤷♂️) and he cites an 8 week study with diabetics where honey had negligible impact. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26883464_Effects_of_natural_honey_consumption_in_diabetic_patients_An_8-week_randomized_clinical_trial). Lots of other interesting references too.
Good luck with whatever else you’re spending time on!
Also RE: opportunity cost
Look into listening to podcasts when doing other things, like chores or working out.
If you’re listening to music during your workouts or while mowing the lawn, there’s a huge opportunity missed.
That's exactly what I do every morning during my daily hike. On Fountain.
Good job!
I always try to envision the future for myself.
Imagining your future self in regards to achievements, financials, and health can be very motivating too!
killing sugar dependency is hard, but feasible. don't stop trying! remove all temptations around you and eat "good" sugars: fruit and honey
You shouldn't eliminate caffeine from your diet.
Unlike sugary drinks and added sugars, which are not necessary because there are plenty of common sources of carbs that you will consume anyway, coffee is basically the only consistent source of antioxidants that modern Western people will have readily available to them.
You can get caffeine from tea, guarana, yerba mate, cola nuts... You will see that most of these are made into drinks. That's a better way to avoid sugars and fats. If you don't mind them, caffeine is also present in chocolate...
Well I have to say, chocolate does not contain caffeine, per se, but it does contain theobromine, which is a metabolite of caffeine.
Sugar is definitely a hard habit to break. For me, it really helped to understand what sugar does in the body, and how it's not necessarily the sugar that's a problem as much as how our bodies respond to it. Elevated blood sugar leads to elevated insulin levels. It's really the body's response with insulin that causes most of the problems in our system. Granted, insulin is necessary for life, but when levels get high and stay high due to our over-consumption of carbohydrates, that's where significant health problems start, like insulin resistance, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and atherosclerosis, kidney disease, cancer, and a Host of neurological problems.
Here's a great lecture that explains a lot. He also has videos on how the medical/nutrition industry got Fat wrong. Worth checking out.
I started my transformation from a crapavore to an omnivore to a ketovore to a carnivore over 3 years ago. I lost 75 pounds and have kept it off even though I do cheat now & then.
people like nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n inspired me & with info from Dr. Ken Berry on odysee & Thomas Delauer on facecrap.
if I can do it anyone can.
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Same story here. I'm down 35# in the last year. Not strict Carnivore, but I have a mostly Ketovore diet with room for a few beers a week. It's not ideal, but it's sustainable for me and I'm steadily, slowly dropping weight in a lifestyle that doesn't cause me added irritation because I can't enjoy anything. The way I see it, it took me years to put the weight on, I'm in no poor metabolic condition that would force me to make drastic life changes, so I can take years to drop it in a sustainable way.
I am 6'1", and was 178# when I met my wife in 2007. By September 2021, I had hit 240#. I'm now 205# and steadily moving down every month.
I jumpstarted my weight loss with strict Carnivore due to Jack and Dr. Berry. I lost 30#, then rebounded for the next few months and put 10# back on before I settled on a Ketovore diet +a beer now and then. Like I said, not ideal, but sustainable. Cheers!
Found you through grownostr. Following.