Keep a record of your questions and observations (e.g.,
Does eating less sugar affect my menstrual cramps?).
Not exact matches
My personal preference is to
eat these things
less often, but
do them properly — go hard with the butter and
sugar and make the calories count with delicious flavour.
I'm sure there are far worse things you can
eat... I didn't have chia / hemp seeds so replaced with cashews nuts & sesame seeds I also don't like things too sweet so replaced
sugar with dark chocolate... thought this too would help bind them together —
less sweet perhaps or
do I just love chocolate obviously taste is important.
Recently I've been trying to
do better in staying away from refined
sugars, as I've been having some problems with my skin — I've even been
eating less honey!
I find that as I
eat less and
less sugar, when I
do eat something sweet my body reacts much as you described with the achy muscles.
If you want to embark on changing your tastebuds to sweetness, it
does pay off to know your low fructose fruits (especially if you're currently
eating a fair few portions a day) so you can make a few
less sweet swaps and really that fruit isn't going to put back on some
sugar train.
The first reason is because I honestly like
eating things that taste a lot
less sweet these days and I simply don't want to crave
sugar in the same way as I used to.
Eating less added
sugar is recommended but reduced
sugar foods don't taste as good — could spices help?
If you're new to steel cut oatmeal, the oats are slightly
less processed than rolled, giving them a lower glycemic index which means they don't raise your blood
sugar as high after
eating them.
Repeating the trick with
sugar may be more complicated, not least because we
do not know for sure if our palates can adjust to
eating food that is
less sweet.
When I'm out to
eat, if I'm having a salad I'll skip their pre-made dressing but order a side of olive oil and fresh lemon and make my own so I don't miss the good fat, but skip the
sugar and other
less than ideal ingredients in the pre-made dressing.
For 2 million years of our evolution, we
ate much
less carbohydrate than we
do now, and no refined or processed carbohydrates, and therefore, our systems are simply not designed to handle the big swings in blood
sugar levels caused by the Western diet, which is very high in carbohydrates of all kinds.
When you drink liquid
sugar calories, your body
does not compensate by making you
eat less of other foods instead.
Am I in detox?even if I
do not
eat 1500 cal,
do obese people with high blood
sugar get
less results?
Whether that is
eating less of the highly insulogenic foods such as
sugars and refined carbohydrates (What to
Eat) or
eating less meals (When to
Eat), it doesn't really matter.
So, we have a study comparing an unhealthy diet (Mediterranean - like) to people who might be
doing slightly
less unhealthy
eating (because they are avoiding say
sugar and processed foods and maybe even dairy).
I don't know anyone who got fat from
eating too many apples either, but I'm generally a fan of erring on the side of
eating less sugar.
Of course, that doesn't mean that you should go crazy binge
eating sugar and carbs when you
do eat, but IF, in general, is
less restrictive on foods.
If they don't
eat more fat than we need (which is very little, around 10 % of calories OR
LESS) then their blood
sugars are fine, even if they
eat dozens of pieces of fruit per day, and even if they
eat table
sugar (which is definitely not healthy... but it will not cause sustained, elevated blood
sugar spikes).
The crust really doesn't need
sugar if your tastebuds are acclimatized to
eating less sweet foods.
I like to substitute coconut
sugar in my baking, replacing brown
sugar and white, but find I am
doing less baking overall, and not craving sweets as much as I
did, since I am staying away from chocolate and sweets in general and
eating whole dates and raisins in moderation instead.
However, health - conscious people also tend to
do lots of other things differently from the average person — they may
eat less processed food, drink
less alcohol, smoke
less,
eat less sugar, count calories, exercise more, etc..
Don't worry about total numbers, just focus on
eating less sugar than the day before.
But what they didn't consider was that those populations also didn't
eat a lot of other things, like processed, packaged foods,
sugar, and so forth, which also could have been one of the reasons that there was
less hypertension.
Luckily, once my blood
sugar was back up — note to self: make time to
eat before your starving at work — I found value in the resources my boss had sent, and was
less overwhelmed at the process of reorganizing the work I'd already
done.