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Cappacino's urgggggg!!!!

  • 17 Jul 2012 10:25 PM
    Message # 1012661
    Deleted user
    I think I have just ruined all of my good work by having a cappacino with no sugar but chocolate sprinkle..... I looked at the Mcdonalds website and it said that the standard cap with sprinkle has 12g of sugar.  What have I done!!!! Someone please tell me its not as bad as what I think.
  • 18 Jul 2012 12:24 AM
    Reply # 1012826 on 1012661
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    Ask for a latte, it has no chocolate sprinkle.  It's hardly the end of the world, I am sure I eat more than 10g of sugar from time to time.  I just get back on the horse the next day.  Depending on where you are, and on your own bodies responses, you might find that you crave sweet snacks for a few days, just resist it, or make something with dextrose if you need to, and you'll be fine.

    You know, I don't think that our forefathers never ate more than 10 g of sugar in a day.  I think it's just a convenient 'rule of thumb' in a world where it's easy to drown in sugar daily.  I suspect they gained weight as they ate lots of fruit in season, and lost it through being fructose free through the other 9 months of the year.  If you have the odd moment of eating more fruit than usual, or even more sugar in other forms, you're not really doing any different.  The trick is, we need to make sure we avoid it as much as possible.  You haven't failed because you went 2 g over the amount David suggests you eat in a day.  It's up to you what you do if it results in cravings, and either way, it's a LOT less sugar than you were eating before you were sugar free, you've hardly 'fallen off the wagon'.

  • 18 Jul 2012 4:54 AM
    Reply # 1013085 on 1012826
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    Christian Graus wrote:Ask for a latte, it has no chocolate sprinkle.  It's hardly the end of the world, I am sure I eat more than 10g of sugar from time to time.  I just get back on the horse the next day.  Depending on where you are, and on your own bodies responses, you might find that you crave sweet snacks for a few days, just resist it, or make something with dextrose if you need to, and you'll be fine.

    You know, I don't think that our forefathers never ate more than 10 g of sugar in a day.  I think it's just a convenient 'rule of thumb' in a world where it's easy to drown in sugar daily.  I suspect they gained weight as they ate lots of fruit in season, and lost it through being fructose free through the other 9 months of the year.  If you have the odd moment of eating more fruit than usual, or even more sugar in other forms, you're not really doing any different.  The trick is, we need to make sure we avoid it as much as possible.  You haven't failed because you went 2 g over the amount David suggests you eat in a day.  It's up to you what you do if it results in cravings, and either way, it's a LOT less sugar than you were eating before you were sugar free, you've hardly 'fallen off the wagon'.

    Thank-you Christian!

    I seriously didn't think there was that much sugar in the sprinkle!  
  • 18 Jul 2012 5:05 AM
    Reply # 1013092 on 1012661
    Deleted user
    *grin* it's lurking everywhere, in all sorts of processed foods. That's why an apple is OK, the amount of sugar in it is so tiny compared to the foods that create the problem in the first place :-)

  • 19 Jul 2012 12:36 AM
    Reply # 1014036 on 1012661
    some of the sugar in the standard McDonalds cappucino would be the lactose in the milk...
  • 22 Jul 2012 8:33 PM
    Reply # 1016892 on 1012661
    Deleted user

    correct some of the sugars would be lactose from the milk...

    1 cup of full cream milk is 12.3g sugar which is all lactose

    latte from McDonalds is 11.7g sugar which would be all lactose

    Cappuccino from McDonalds is 12.6g which would be all mostly lactose bar a few grams for the chocolate sprinkles.

    So you'd only probably get .45g of fructose per cup.  Nothing really much to worry about.

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