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Dan Langdon wrote:
Hi David (and everyone)!
If there's something high school physics taught me, its if something seems to easy you're probably doing it wrong. I'm about four days into living without sugar and I'm still waiting for the 'withdrawal symptoms' to hit. Last night I tallied up the sugar content in what I've been eating (thanks CalorieKing.com.au) and its definitely as low as I'm ever likely to get in terms of daily intake. But... I'm fine. No obvious hunger pangs, no desire to eat everything that's not nailed down. The only explanation I can think of is that I got through all this when I initiated my 'don't eat junk food' diet - when I started that I really was always hungry, but I attributed it to my starting an exercise program at the same time.
My current food plan is:
Breakfast
- Two whole eggs scrambled on two slices of Helga's wholemeal grain toast
- Protein smoothie (250mL PhysiCal no-fat milk, 2 tbsp rolled oats, 2 tbsp whey protein isolate, 2 tbsp Jalna Organic unflavoured yogurt, half a large banana)
Lunch
- One piece of I&J Lemon, Garlic & Pepper fish plus one 200g serve of Steamfresh broccoli, peas, beans and corn
- 1 350mL (approximately) glass Coke Zero
Afternoon snack
- One 175g tub Yoplait Forme yogurt (the fruit one)
- 1 300mL (approximately) mug hot cocoa (1 tsp unsweetened cooking cocoa, 1 tsp dextrose powder, variable amount of whole milk)
Dinner
- Chicken, vegetable and barley casserole (veggies are potato, butternut pumpkin, carrot, onion and celery) that was made with Gravox Real Chicken Stock. Yeah, I cheated by using store-bought stock :P
After dinner snack
Is there anything in there that could possibly be sabotaging me?
Cheers,
Dan
Hi Dan,
At a quick glance, your tub of yoplait forme yogurt would be pretty high in sugars. To see the best (and worst) yogurts, check out the sugar guides. You will find from this that you are eating one of the high sugar ones. I'm unsure of what the sugar ratio is on any of the packaged stuff you eat, but as a rule of thumb try for 3g or less per 100g, (except milk - the lactose which is good sugar will be higher - I think about 4.7g per 100g). Hope this is helpful.
Good luck!!
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