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

• 40g dry roasted peanuts

Is there anything in there that could possibly be sabotaging me?

Cheers,

Dan

Chrissie . wrote

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!!

I had a look at David's sugar guide for yogurt and the Forme range is third in the top 10 BEST yogurts for having low sugar.  There are two better, but I can't stand unflavoured yogurt so I guess I'll have to get the Nestle diet stuff next time I'm in the supermarket.

Nicole Mitchell wrote:

Hi Dan,

From what David says everyone is different with how they cope with withdrawing sugar from their diet.  For me, I have had no major issues and I put it down to the fact I really have only incidental sugar in my life, plus the occasional dessert or cake.  I have never been a big lolly/chocolate eater, I don't drink soft drinks - I love water and coffee or tea - not sweetened.  I think if you were a big consumer of these things and then you suddebly take them out, then your body would go into withdrawal but from what you say you are eating, your diet seems to be not extremely high in sugar anyway so it may be an easier process for you.  I think at the end of the day we are all different so our experiences will be different.  Just focus on feeling good.

Nicole 

 

Hi Nicole

Lucky you for not being a big sugar consumer.  I was terrible until about six weeks ago when I finally decided that I needed to do something about my weight before I followed both my parents into insulin resistance.  I used to joke about not so much having a sweet tooth but an entire mouthful of them and it probably wasn't far from the truth.  So I'm guessing that maybe I went through most of the withdrawal back when I decided to just cut out the junk food - going from there to no sugar wasn't that big a step so it hasn't hit me as hard.  I just wanted to make sure that was the case and not me inadvertantly doing something wrong :)

Cheers!

Dan

Dan Langdon wrote:

Chrissie . wrote

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!!

I had a look at David's sugar guide for yogurt and the Forme range is third in the top 10 BEST yogurts for having low sugar.  There are two better, but I can't stand unflavoured yogurt so I guess I'll have to get the Nestle diet stuff next time I'm in the supermarket.

High I have been a weight watch member for over 32 yrs, im now 50 and weigh 58 kgs, I have allways used the points system , but now cutting out sugar has really opened my eyes. My god Weight watchers food is so High in sugars all their items are ,Im really shocked, Especially the Nestles Diet yoghurts, wow! sugar  22g per little tub,

I have found no Favoured yoghurts any where low in sugar, and trust me iv been looking.Im not normally a sweet eater, but reaching the big 50 has changed  me. Thats why i am solving the problem befor it gets away from me. thank you david for this wonderfull  new way of life. 

regards the new rookie on the block

Jillian   

Good morning everone,

How I am loving reading all these comments.  I too have not experienced any real withdrawal symptoms and was wondering "If I am doing it right" but have now been reassured and realise that everyone is different.  Having been a Weight Watchers Lifetime member since 1989 I too was staggered with the amount of sugar in the programme.

Keep the comments coming.

Cheers Margaret