Hi guys,

Its my 46th birthday today and my husband is taking me to the flashest restaurant in town that we haven't been to for 15 years.  I am relatively new to being sugar free and am about to go low carb to kick things along as I only have another 5kg to lose before I'm at the bottom of my reccomended weight range. 

My question is that tonight I am planning to have a degustation dessert plate for which this restaurant is famous for.  It's minitures of all their desserts.  We will share it amongst 3 of us.  So knowing that this will be happening I was wondering if anyone can give me some tips for what to do over the next week or few days to compensate for this planned 'falling off of the wagon'.  What is going to be the quickest way for my bloodstream and insulin levels to recover from this deed of wickedness? 

Thanks for your support.  Yes I did it.  Yes I had the dessert and yes you were right.  I didn't enjoy it that much.  Most of it just tasted the same......sweet...........sweet...........sweet. 

I have to say that prior to this I have never seen my weight be so stable.  I used to be quite large so I weigh myself every day so I am sure to stay on top of any weight gain.  That way it can't get away from me over a week when I've found I've put on 5kg.  Anyway while I've been sugar free my weight has been 67.4 every morning without fail, after I lost the initial 1.5kg that is.  Anyway this morning I was 68.2 so just look at what that sugar can do to me.  What a horrible power it has.  I think that should probably be the last lot of power it gets from me for quite a while though.  Not worth it but I still like to hold the power of choice over my own body.

So seriously back on the wagon again this morning.  Little jog this morning, fruit & yoghurt for brekky, salad for lunch & stirfry for dinner.  Gotta get rid of the headache I've got. 

Agreed, party food is for parties and I don't see any problem if you want to have a little something if you are able to put up with any natsy side effects the next day.  I'm lucky and that I don't get any side effects from eating sugar and I actually still do have say a piece of cake or something but it's only ever on special occasions.  Generally I don't usually feel like any sweets after dinner nor do I have any room (only ever sweet cravings I get is around that time of month). After you've been sugar free for some time you loose that interest for sweet stuff, it doesn't interst me much anymore.  If you do plan to fall off, make sure you are pretty low fructose wise the that day, eat lots of protein, not fruit or dextrose and you should be fine.

I am just back from a US trip, and I spent a few days in New York, and went to two rock festivals ( not good sources of sugar free food ).  I did the best I could, but I let caution go to the wind on a few key nights.  I think the core point is, you can let your hair down from time to time, but you'll probably find yourself looking for less sweet options, and when it's done, you go back to eating well.  Sounds like you did exactly that.  I take my wife out for dinner once a month, and we tend to share a dessert now ( I try to eat less than half ).  I found that even when I was a little bad in the US, I kept losing weight ( I expected to put it back on, for sure ).  So, my overall conclusion is that there's room for some flexibility in the diet plan put forward by 'sweet poison', but that David is smart in not giving people loopholes, people tend to under report what they eat and if everyone who read the book went away thinking that a small amount of sugar is OK, they'd probably mostly eat too much, still.

 

What is making you think you need to lose 5kg ? According to my doctor, i need to lose 5 kg to be at the top of my 'ideal' weight range.  My wife is freaked out that she can feel my ribs b/c of how thin I am, and I found out last night that other people in the family are attributing my rapid weight loss to probably cancer.  In other words, what your doctor tells you that you should weigh, is probably insane.  I don't know where I could have 5kg to lose and once I start to do more exercise, I expect to weigh MORE as I put on muscle.