Sarah Marshall wrote:Hi there,
I bought The Sweet Poison Quit Plan two days ago and have almost finished it.  My question is, is 10g the maximum recommendation for fructose?
I noticed in David's sample day, his total came to 8.1g.  I think I saw somewhere that 10g should be the daily limit?
Tomorrow is the day I start 'cold turkey' and would love to get this sorted out.  I am very excited about what I am reading, and a lot of it makes sense.  I get depressed when I seem to mindlessly eat sugary things like chocolate etc when I know i'm not hungry, and am not even necessarily enjoying it.

I hope I will be back to this forum to report wonderful things.

Hi Sarah
Good Luck with the withdrawals....
I believe it is 10-15g maximum per day (fructose) for most people without becoming re-addicted, which would make it 20-30g of sugar all up.
I don't actually sit and calculate everything I eat but i read labels and only buy things that have 3g or less per 100g of sugar.  I also stay away from the things David has said are high in sugar... sweets, sauces etc... I think it would be too hard to sit and calculate everything all the time. I also limit my fruit intake too two serves a day, which to tell the truth has been the biggest struggle for me because I use to have a banana at morning tea and an apple with lunch and they are two of the highest fructose fruits out there.... :(
But I wish you well in your quest...
tamara

Sarah Marshall wrote:
Hi Tamara

Thank you for the reply.  That is helpful, as I don't want to have to calculate totals etc either.  Knowing 3g of sugar or less per 100g serve is great.  How long have you been doing it and how long did it take you to get through the withdrawal stage? 
I know what you mean about the fruit, it seems I love the high sugar ones too!! 

Thanks again for your reply,

Sarah

Hello again Sarah
I am three and a half weeks into this and I have been wondering if I am doing everything right as I don't feel I have had the same agonies as some people who have commented on here.
I do get like a discomfort.... you know when you go beyond hungry and get like a nagging pressure pain in your gut... but that's about it really, well except for a constant head ache for the first week and a half... I don't know maybe after reading all of the research David has written about it has clicked something in my head and I am not really feeling all that deprived or I don't know hmmm in a great need for the sweet stuff... it has happened once or twice when I have been with friends that are hoeing into a chocie cake or something but the majority of the time i am not all that fussed.... i don't know maybe it's because I am a reformed smoker that after many attempts to quit in many different ways finally realised 5 years ago at the age of 32 that I was not one of those people that can have one in a blue moon.... I think I am a bit of an addicted personality, kind of an all or none person so I as of three weeks ago have set my brain to none in the sugar department... but like I said earlier, fruit IS a struggle for me as I have been a big eater of it since I was a tot....
below is part of another post that I put on here (with a minor correction)

• LABELS 0-3g of sugar per 100g? or 0-8g on dairy products?
• 2 serves of fruit a day is okay
• Dextrose is okay IF going cold turkey
  
• Maximum of 10g of fructose a day
• to determine fructose content we halve the amount of sugar on a label?
• Vegetables, seafood and nuts are all okay... (some vegies and nuts contain more fructose than others but the larges amounts of fibre balance that out)
  

The 8g per 100g for dairy is as David informed me 5g for the lactose (which is okay to have) plus 3g per 100g of any added sugar.... which may be flavouring etc.. also when I say cold turkey... it means stopping sugar all together instead of doing the slower lowering withdrawal....
I hope that all helps... and no worries on the reply... you are welcome anytime I just hope my ramblings make sense and are accurate
cheers
tamara