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Addicted to Sugar?
So I recently started reading up on sugar addiction and I'm pretty sure I'm an addict, like most people around me.
I've decided to cut back loads for a month to see if it improves my mood and alertness.
Has anyone else tried this? How long does it take before you can look at a piece of cake and think, "meh," rather than, "gimme gimme gimme"? Have you noticed a significant difference in how you feel?
Btw, it was Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop newsletter that finally made me take action.
I've decided to cut back loads for a month to see if it improves my mood and alertness.
Has anyone else tried this? How long does it take before you can look at a piece of cake and think, "meh," rather than, "gimme gimme gimme"? Have you noticed a significant difference in how you feel?
Btw, it was Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop newsletter that finally made me take action.
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Permalink Reply by Holly Young on -
I totally believe I am an addict too. I'll have to read up on it as well. About 5 years ago, I went "sugar less" for about 2 weeks (no chocolate, candy, pop, cakes, etc.) I still ate fruit and granola bars, but nothing with chocolate and surprisingly enough, I DID start to feel a little, "meh" rather than gimme gimme gimme about things like that.
Needless to say, I fell off the wagon, and I feel hard. Haha...
Did you find the newsletter online? I"m curious as to what Gwyneth says. Any other good resources would be greatly appreciated! THANKS! :)
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Permalink Reply by Christine Syrad on -
I have done it before too, but it was too lose some weight, rather than to measure the impact on my mood, so this is a new experiment :) I fell of the wagon too though, hehe.
I found the newsletter through another blog, I think. Take a look at www.goop.com and check out her weekly newsletters. I find her very inspiring. I also did some reading here and there online, there's an article over on Ask Men I found useful (I just googled "sugar addiction"). I spent dinner last night convincing my boyfriend that almost everyone with access to sugar is addicted to it.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Jones on -
I only really eat loads of sugary things if I am sad... and when I start I eat so much. It's crazy how much it can slow down your activity though (if you're doing any sports that require speed). I wouldn't say I'm addicted, because when I'm training and need to cut it out I don't find it difficult, but this week I haven't been able to not eat loads of chocolate every day!!
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Permalink Reply by Christine Syrad on
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That's my problem, I will have bouts of of about a week when I simply can't say no to chocolate. I'm almost worse when I'm training, though, actually. I have the bad habit of saying, "what's a chocolate bar's calories compared to those I burnt running 16km?" and guzzle one down....and possibly reach for a bit more of another one. If I run regularly, then chocolate gets eaten more frequently too.
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Permalink Reply by Christine Syrad on
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I actually have the opposite problem, which is really bad. I will bake brownies and look at how much sugar, chocolate and butter went into them and go off the idea of eating them. Then I will go to a cafe and not think twice about eating one that I didn't have to witness the making of even though homemade ones are much nicer.
I'm the same though, I prefer quality over quantity and I wouldn't say I am a sugar fiend that needs to kick the habit before I end up with diabetes, but when I look back on what I was eating, there was alot of unnecessary sugar in my diet; I would buy a jam filled croissant twice a week or eat sugary muesli and then have a cookie in the afternoon and a small scoop of icecream after dinner. These small but constant doses of sugar, I suspect, were making me lethargic. I still eat fruit and a bit of honey.
The Atkins diet made people smell like pee, if I remember correctly. Grim.
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Permalink Reply by Gina on -
I honestly am not addicted to sugar, but during my second pregnancy I totally was. That was all I craved, I am not exaggerating when I say I ate Dairy Queen Blizzards for dinner. More than once.
You will eventually get to where you think "meh" you just gotta hang in there! This is one of those things that I think you need to have a serious plan in place, though, because if you fall off the wagon once, you're off for a good long while. So, if you do decide to have some dessert, make sure it's when you're out at a restaurant, don't bring home Ben & Jerry's. Having it in the house is what makes it easy to falter.
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