julie gordon wrote:After doing a lot of research and reading davids books and looking at all the questions and answers on the forums etc i wonder if we are complicating this lifestyle choice and trying to incorpirate all our info and belifes from media and other diets etc. I simply brought the books listened to some online interviews done with David and followed the steps in the quit guide. We got rid of all the products that didnt fit the recommended amount of sugar per 100grams we filled the panytry with low fructose fruit nuts shapes popcorn cheese crackes found a supplier of sour dough bread we have cows for milk and butter and cream we have chickens for eggs we also have a great variety of meat and veges people sometimes simple is so much better as someone who is relatively new to this programme i find the forums confussing and a bit contridictory i have lost over 6 kilos in 3 weeks and continue to only exercise when i want to i dnt feel deprived i dnt feel hungry between meals and i hated the first week just like the book said i refuse to do points count calories etc i simply eat off a small plate and i am happy my treat if any is potato chips so i wonder if some of us need to go back to the basics again and not over analyse this lifestyle too much and not overwhelm the newbies me included to much
I think you're 200% right. A lot of people on this forum are quoting all sorts of other websites and ideas, and while I don't advocate doing what David says blindly, and without thinking about it, I do think that some people are getting tied in knots trying to figure out how to still eat a lot of sweets, or find different types of sugar they can eat, etc. I guess everyone is different, but, I did what you describe, I eat well, I eat until I am full, I just don't eat sugar, and I've lost a ton of weight. But, I also think that it's wrong to look at this as a 'weight loss diet', it's not, it's a way of life to eat sensibly and let your body take care of itself. I was 102 kg and I am 88 now, and while my doctor tells me I should be less, people ask what my target weight is, and I don't have one. If I know I am eating good food and not eating to excess, my body knows better than some imagined ideal I might get from the media what it is I should weigh. There is no way I am going to count calories, or points ( I do like looking at Weight Watchers products in the supermarket and trying to find some without sugar, for a giggle ), or anything like that. That's what I love about cutting out sugar, I don't need to, and I don't need to feed deprived.