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It's difficult to give it up at first, but it gets easier after a few weeks. I went cold turkey but I didn't change anything else since I wanted to see just how many of my ills were caused by sugar alone. It turns out that most of my health issues were purely from sugar intake and nothing more. After a few months, I no longer craved sweets at all even though I occasionally eat a very small sugar-filled things on special occasions like birthdays or social/family gatherings. I usually don't have any immediate problems from eating it, but I do regret not sticking to my guns for the sake of being sociable. My wife and I have seen such positive results to having done this that we can never go back to the poison. It's just not worth the small moments of enjoyment for a lifetime of pain.
The hidden sugars thing is a bit of a split between being an issue and not. I find that in general I don't eat a whole lot of processed or ready-made foods with hidden sugars as we tend to make our own food most of the time. But we also haven't worried too much about eating out or even having some fast food garbage. It seems that cutting out the straight up sugary garbage like cake, cookies and my weakness being ice cream that we were able to get 80% of the benefit with 20% of the effort.
I have been cutting the other carbs down slowly, but having done calorie restricted dieting and fasting before, it's really difficult to get rid of sugar and complex carbs at the same time. I'm sure if I can get all the rest of the hidden sugars out of my diet that I will transform into some sort of deity or something, but I am happy with my results so far and will take the last few steps slowly. I can't always have meat as all my side dishes in this Build Back Better™ food scarcity era. Thanks Fuck You Brandon.
I have been meaning to make a detailed post on this but haven't got around to it. I will have to put it together and post it on a day when I can get it on Poal early enough for more users to see it and ask questions and such. I'll work on finding a time to make this happen.
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