*pout*

[listersgirl]

Not eating sugar is haaaaaard.

I mean, seriously, I spent 20 minutes at the grocery store convincing myself not to buy my favourite oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Think of all the things I could have done with those 20 minutes! Eaten 20 delicious cookies, for one.

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ok....you need substitutes STAT :)

[mystery-diva.livejournal.com]

It's just refined sugars? you're still eating things with natural sugars like fruit? For me it wasn't sugar I had to give up....because I'm more of a dairy/chip girl. I never used to like popcorn, but it became the substitute for chips (because I can buy low-fat and have so MUCH of it!). So maybe give yourself a lot of something else you love that has nothing to do with sugar? Like...well...hmmm. Er...popcorn? Heh. It's hard, because sugar shows up in so many things....and actually, I've been making an effort to cut back on sugar too (just not completely). Like low-fat fruit flavoured yoghurt....all sugar! All sugar. No no no.

Re: ok....you need substitutes STAT :)

[listersgirl]

I think it's refined sugar - I put honey in the iced tea I made the other day, and that doesn't seem to be a problem. It IS hard, though - I'm seriously addicted to sugar and think about sweet things all the time. I clearly need a distraction.

You know what's REA LLY hard?

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

When your FRIENDS give up eating sugar. I mean, we opened that pie up tonight. There's only the two of us. There's an entire pie. There are like 8,432 grams of fat per TINY TINY TEENSY WEENSY slice of pie. GOD HELP ME.

Friends don't let friends eat pie alone!

Re: You know what's REA LLY hard?

[jits.livejournal.com]

Heh.

One presumes that's 8.432 grams of fat, not 8 and a half kg, which would make it a really big bit of pie, and not at all good for you. :)

Re: You know what's REA LLY hard?

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

If only -- I think the real number was something like 24 grams. And they were TINY pieces.

Re: You know what's REA LLY hard?

[jits.livejournal.com]

There should be laws about things that taste so good, being better for you.

I can't believe governments haven't gotten onto that one yet.

Re: You know what's REA LLY hard?

[listersgirl]

Yes, well, you wouldn't BE eating that pie if I hadn't ALSO brought a pie the last time I was over. Two pies and 4 people was determined to be far, far too decadent, hence, pie still in fridge.

[sh1mm3r.livejournal.com]

I sedate myself by buying really interesting fruit, super fresh, like from the farmer's market. You can't just have nothing!

[listersgirl]

Yes, but you have to do work to eat fruit, usually! Wash it, peel it, slice it -- I'm laaaazy. *faints from all the effort*

Actually, that's probably a good idea. I really eat very little fruit normally.

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord, sugar is such a demon. 6 years ago, I gave up sugar and all refined (white) carbs. Cold turkey. I maintained that for 6 months (during which time, I lost 80 pounds - though that was not the reason I was doing it). Since then, I have desperately tried to give up sugar - only sugar, not even white bread & rice & such - and I have never been able to manage for more than a month or two. It is HARD. These days I just try to be sane about sugar - I try to eat moderate amounts only once a day, and try to eat actual food the rest of the time. That, too, is HARD. Some days I manage, and some days, (or, lately, weeks), I don't.

Stupid sugar. Why does it have to be so delicious? Why can't it also be full of life-giving minerals and nutrients?

[listersgirl]

Dude, for real! Sugar should have some secret magical nutrient that can only be found in sugar, so that we *have* to eat it every day. When I rule the world...

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Well done you, with the willpower. Seriously. *hug*

I hope that you can have something, though - fruit, maybe.

[listersgirl]

Yes, I should eat more fruit. Otherwise I'm just going to replace the sugar with cheese. :D

[iseult-variante.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't think about this when you first posted about the sugar thing, but looking at the comment that "sugar should have some special nutrient"... it does, kind of! We're evolved to like sugar, because it was cheap energy, and harder to come by, back in the day. (Like, the hunting-gathering day). So those people who are suggesting fruit, and unrefined substitutes (honey, as you used), are probably really REALLY right.

*goes to have a peach*

[listersgirl]

Huh. That makes a lot of sense. So, I'm just really highly evolved? No, wait... :D

[iseult-variante.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Something like that? (The same argument works for our love of fatty foods, too. It's just that now we have easy access to things that used to be hard to hunt/gather. *shakes head* Darn you, grocery stores!)

[listersgirl]

Hey, I work hard with my hunting and gathering at the grocery store! Just last week I had to use all my powers to not get stuck in the line with the person arguing over all the prices.

[iseult-variante.livejournal.com]

Hee. It's a jungle in there? ;)

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

The dietician on PBS says that if you eat fruit every day, you won't get sugar cravings... I have not tested this theory though, because life without cake is not worth living.

For me.

Becuase I'm lazy and fat and pathetic, unlike you. You big fat dynamo, you.

[listersgirl]

Oh, I'm lazy and fat and pathetic, I'd just prefer to be lazy and fat and pathetic without these stupid painful headaches. Blech.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

Awwwe... how do you know they're sugar related?

Are you doing the whole low-GI diet thing too, or just cutting out refined sugars?

I'm just curious - I don't get headaches from sugars but I do get kind of lightheaded and faint if I eat too much sweets on too empty a stomach. If that makes sense...

Also,I am PUDGY.

PUDGY PUDGY PUDGY PUDGY PUDGY PUDGY.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

And PS - are you also sensitive to artificial sweeteners?

They make me hungry, which totally defeats the purpose. Bah.

[listersgirl]

I don't know - I try to avoid them, but mostly that's because of the taste. I'd try stevia, but really, it's not about *me* baking/cooking with sugar, but about all the junk food crap that I buy!

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

There's sugar in practically everything, if you look for it...

I try and make my own stuff from scratch if I can help it - sauces and whatnot. But I can't give up ketchup.. and I'm not into making my own bread. My bread is never as good as bakery bread.