Trying to give up or cut down on Sugar intake

[Escapee..]

I dont have a sweet tooth so i never crave sweet stuff. So I dont do pudding or chocolates.

 

I do like my coffee/cappuccino with 1 sugar. I usually have 1 cup in the morning and 1 cup in the evening.

 

Training in the week, just water

Longer ride over the weekend with 32Gi (yet to find something that really wows me though)

 

Am I on a path of destruction? 

Something else I should rather try?

[lechatnoir]

Are we talking about peeled, pulped oranges or Minute Maid?

 

sugar is sugar buddy...

 

Here's an observation - if we as humans had evolved to eat sugar, why do our teeth rot when we do?

[johannrissik]

 

Giving up completely is not necessary because we all need to eat "some" sugar and there's sugar in almost everything, 

 

 

Like the men said, go cold turkey and stop consuming the stuff once and for all.  

Once you've been off it for a while you will notice how much sugar is in so much of the "food" presented to us.

 

You do not need any sugar in your diet, niks, nothing nada. Despite what the desperate dumpling dieticians will try to tell you

 

Long term prospects for sugar eaters are not good.

 

Good luck

[Odinson]

sugar is sugar buddy...

 

Here's an observation - if we as humans had evolved to eat sugar, why do our teeth rot when we do?

 

Your body's reaction to refined processed sugar vs. some [insert sugary fruit] is not the same, pal. 

[Eldron]

Like the men said, go cold turkey and stop consuming the stuff once and for all.  

Once you've been off it for a while you will notice how much sugar is in so much of the "food" presented to us.

 

You do not need any sugar in your diet, niks, nothing nada. Despite what the desperate dumpling dieticians will try to tell you

 

Long term prospects for sugar eaters are not good.

 

Good luck

 

What do you "no sugar" guys use in your bottles?

 

Surely fats/proteins don't digest fast enough for high intensity work outs/races?

[Eldron]

Your body's reaction to refined processed sugar vs. some [insert sugary fruit] is not the same, pal. 

 

Apple juice and refined processed sugar water same same (or near as damnit) - how are they different?

[johannrissik]

What do you "no sugar" guys use in your bottles?

 

Surely fats/proteins don't digest fast enough for high intensity work outs/races?

I use water and I eat a LCHF diet. Works for me. (But I don't preach)

[NickGM]

For the umpteenth time I am trying to cut down on my daily sugar intake.

 

Giving up completely is not necessary because we all need to eat "some" sugar and there's sugar in almost everything, but I have a sweet tooth that could, I'm informed, lead to Diabetes if I don't start being careful.

 

I seem to have two things making cutting down difficult:

 

1) I generally feel like I need a sweet or biscuit, not because I'm hungry but just because I feel like one. So more out of habit than anything.

 

2) I'm not good at limiting myself once a packet of sweets or biscuits are open. It's all or nothing with me. (which is just plain greedy and immature)

 

 

If anyone has succeeded I'd be interested to know what worked for you? Giving up slowly or going in hard and cutting everything until your body detoxed?

 

 

Like others have mentioned, cold turkey worked for me. I can't comment on the alternatives because I didn't try them. Basically I watched some terrifying documentary about sugar and thought "Let me cut it out completely and see what happens". Now obviously there is sugar in say, an apple, which I still eat. But if sugar was added to something by a human, I just didn't eat it.

 

The first few days were a bit tough, but after say 2 weeks it felt normal. Your perception of sugar changes after that. I remember having some muesli that I used to eat pretty regularly pre-detox and nearly spat it out because it was so sugary. 

 

The pros:

In general, the results were/are good. My blood sugar and cholesterol came down significantly. I know that correlation does not imply cause (and I'm not a dietician) but this was the only lifestyle change I made between two vitality screening assessments about 4 months apart. Use it, don't use it. 

 

Also, I sleep better, it is easier to stay in shape and I can concentrate better (possibly due to better sleep).

 

Maybe I wont get diabetes.

 

The cons:

I miss speckled eggs.  

 

Give cold turkey a try. I still follow the same diet and its easy now. It's not really a diet actually, now I just see it as food and that everyone around me eats ****. My only concession is that I'll eat a couple of rusks now and then. 

[Odinson]

Apple juice and refined processed sugar water same same (or near as damnit) - how are they different?

 

Watch and enjoy!

 

https://youtu.be/sHEJE6I-Yl4

[Eldron]

I use water and I eat a LCHF diet. Works for me. (But I don't preach)

 

What do you eat on rides? Rice cakes? Potatoes? Biltong?

 

Or what do you use for energy on rides? 

 

I'm always looking for alternatives for training rides - races I use the sugary stuff but for slower training rides I use very little sugar/simple carbs.

[Eldron]

Watch and enjoy!

 

https://youtu.be/sHEJE6I-Yl4

 

Whole fruits good.

Fruit sugars mostly bad with some exceptions.

 

Eating raw sugar cane or sugar beets good - eating refined sugar from sugar cane and sugar beets bad.

 

Mostly we're entering semantic territory methinks.

[Barry Stuart]

sugar is sugar buddy...

 

Here's an observation - if we as humans had evolved to eat sugar, why do our teeth rot when we do?

 

Confirmed. If you're on a paleo diet you can throw your toothbrush away.

[Odinson]

Whole fruits good.

Fruit sugars mostly bad with some exceptions.

 

Eating raw sugar cane or sugar beets good - eating refined sugar from sugar cane and sugar beets bad.

 

Mostly we're entering semantic territory methinks.

 

 

I get where you're trying to go with that, but I disagree with the over-simplification. 

 

I think we can all agree that reducing your intake of added processed sugars in one's food should be promoted. 

[Odinson]

Confirmed. If you're on a paleo diet you can throw your toothbrush away.

 

I feel sorry for your family, friends, colleagues and anyone within sniffing distance of you. 

[porqui]

V12man    -  -   -  help!!

 

 

(Help tog 'n bietjie daar/hier)

[100Tours]

Hmm. 

 

First off, sugar does not cause diabetes. Animal protein is one of the primary causes of Type-2 diabetes.

 

You also do not need to add refined sugar to your diet. You can get a sufficient amount of natural sugars through fruit consumption, with the added benefit of an increase in your dietary fiber intake. 

 

It just take discipline.

 

Some clarification,

 

There is no (generally accepted) direct cause of Type 2 Diabetes - you may become diabetic as a result of being overweight, a lifetime of smoking, experiencing periods of high stress, poor diet (saturated fats, refined carbs, refined sugars, etc.), as well as being genetically predisposed to it. You are particularly at risk if you have the type of body fat that hangs off your belly and over your belt, or, apparently, just if you're living in the 21st century. If sugar makes you fat, then that's a problem.

 

Exercise and managing your diet reduce the risk of diabetes, as well as helping you manage the condition if you are already diabetic.

 

If you are Type 2 then your body is not reacting adequately to the insulin being produced by your pancreas - insulin in your blood tells your body to regulate blood sugar levels down, and this mechanism now isn't working as it should (e.g. your body has got too big for the OEM pancreas supplied, or the same insulin concentration isn't having the effect it did previously).

 

The issue you now have is that your body is not able to "fix" the blood sugar spike experienced after you eat a sugary meal. Any periods of high blood sugar do damage to capillary blood vessels, which then lead to damage in the tissues served by these fine vessels - i.e. your kidneys, eyes, fingers/toes, and so on over time. So while sugar is not perhaps a direct cause of diabetes, it does accelerate the damage done by diabetes. And, increasingly, everyone on the planet is at least a little pre-diabetic (50% of US adults are either diabetic or pre-diabetic), so we all need to cut refined sugar.

 

Fibre, low GI, or other complex foods basically slow down the rate that sugar enters the blood stream. So, beneficial, but mostly because they reduce the work your insulin/blood sugar system needs to do. There are also a number of reports of people 'reversing' Type 2 diabetes, largely through weight loss and severe diet restrictions (water and vegetables).

 

Long-winded, but basically look after your weight and avoid the sugar. Go cycling.