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Sugar is poisonous and it promotes the growth of harmful gut bacteria that influence your brain chemistry to make you crave more sugar. Cut out all sweets and sweeteners except raw honey for a couple weeks and you'll feel like a different person. You'll sleep better, you'll have more energy, and pretty quickly you won't crave sugar. I broke my sugar fast a bit over the last week visiting with some friends and I immediately felt gross. Be careful to not replace those sweets with extra carbs.

Sugar is poisonous and it promotes the growth of harmful gut bacteria that influence your brain chemistry to make you crave more sugar. Cut out all sweets and sweeteners except raw honey for a couple weeks and you'll feel like a different person. You'll sleep better, you'll have more energy, and pretty quickly you won't crave sugar. I broke my sugar fast a bit over the last week visiting with some friends and I immediately felt gross. Be careful to not replace those sweets with extra carbs.

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[–] • 2 pts

I just kicked nicotine. Am going to kick sugar starting tommorrow. If I survive, caffeine is next. Nicotine was no problem. Im hoping the sugar crash doesnt kill me, lol. What about beer? Does that count?

[–] • 2 pts

Quitting beer will actually make you crave sugar so I suggest doing beer first to to taper off sugar.

I've had some crazy episodes of sugar when not drinking for long periods. I finally have a steady handling.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Moderation is key. If you're cutting sugar suddenly, make sure your diet is high quality and you have a good battery of vitamins and minerals. I gave up all alcohol almost 2 years ago and I've never felt better. I need to cut caffeine next as well.

[–] • 0 pt

Here's the terminology that bothers me. "moderation". This isn't a vague guideline and it's more like empty marketing.

The real key to getting and maintaining a health life is LIMITATION. Having the ability to stopping yourself from shoving calories into your face. Also, understanding how food breakdown works, and finally how burning calories and weight strengthening/lifting shape you.

Anything that promises a specific aspect of any of these or tries to get you to remove any of these is a fucking thinly veiled scam. Sadly , the market of people who've been conditioned to believe that they can have a regular body through reading a book, swallowing pills, starving themselves and laying around all the time is simply too large a mental opiate.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Here's the terminology that bothers me. "moderation". This isn't a vague guideline and it's more like empty marketing.

When you're dealing with fats, moderation is the code word for stop being fat. Stop eating shit you know that's bad for you every day. If you eat sugary stuff once a week or one a month, that's going to be 'moderation' for most people relative to their current diet.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I'm kicking coffee by degrees. I first stopped putting cream and sugar and switched to raw honey in the coffee. I drink one big cup in the AM and sometimes we have coffee time mid afternoon. Cutting carbs has been tough for me. I had to force myself to eat more meat.