Blog Week One: 126 Kilos (Well I was last time I checked, I'll go with that)
Diet One Week One: Sugar Free
The day after Easter I started Sugar Free and weird psychological effects started happening - I was feeling hungry because I was obsessing about sweet things, and I am now obsessively checking the labels on everything.
The Rule: No Added Sugar. Natural Sugars are ok, but am still going to watch I don't overcompensate. If it has over a gram per serving of natural sugars I will avoid. Everything else I'll be going by the ingredients list on the label. If it has sugar as an ingredient or anything that sugar might be masquerading as (fructose, dextrose, sucrose etc...) then it's off the list.
So the first few days and all I want is bread. Not chocolate or sweets or anything else, just bread. I tried Gluten free for a month a few years back and had exactly the same issue. Commercially made bread is abundant in sugar, lots of things are.
Fresh fruit and loads of non ready made things for me it seems. So it's fruit and veg, easy enough - but no sauces as most have them in it.
What I was not expecting was Corn Chips. Corn Chips have sugar in them. So do any potato chips other than plain ready salted ones.
Week one and I feel lighter and a bit healthier already. Probably mental, but there you go.
Also hungry a lot.
Did I mention hungry? Again probably mental as I am not skipping meals and they are not small, just hard to choose.
Hi Wayne.. congrats on the amazing weightloss, that's some will power you have! The before and after pics are crazy amazing.
ReplyDeleteYou mention in the rules for this diet that natural sugars are ok but not for anything that has any more than a gram per serving. Does this mean you eliminated fruit entirely?
No I allowed fruit - and defined added sugar as refined sugar - where sugar shows as an added ingredient. So while I ate fruit I generally avoided fruit juice as a drink and stuck to completely sugar free drinks.
ReplyDeleteThe point of this - and why I started was all about seeing how hard it was to eliminate refined sugar that is added to stuff, and even though I kind of knew it was prevalent - it was in the oddest of places.... and cutting it our alone lost me at least 10 kilos in that first month.
Great, that makes sense! It's incredible where you'll find it hidden... and actually Burgen soy and linseed bread is the only one I've found that doesn't list sugar as an added ingredient.
ReplyDeleteI did also wonder about the alcohol component as there is a bit of debate online about which alchohols contain sugar. What was your approach?