Sugar Free? -

[Heimdallr]

Is there anyone here who does not consume sugar in their diet?


It seems sugar has a lot of terrible health attributes.

Has anyone gone sugar free, and how and to what extant has that helped them?

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I have. it depends on how hard core you are gonna try to go. I gave up sugar in drinks, food, and all candies. mostly because I have bad toofs. but stay away from sugarless candies, by all that is unholy.

 

[millais]

I tried it over the summer. It really changes your palate and sense of taste. After not eating any sugar for a few months, even unripened fruits will taste incredibly sweet.

 

[Jerk Sauce]

I take a more moderate approach, I find that if you go out of your way to avoid something then you end up craving it. I still take sugar with my coffee and allow fructose [as in eating the actual fruit, screw juice] other than that I avoid it wherever possible besides the occasional treat. I have noticed the same changes as millais in that it really does change your palate. It also helps you to maintain your weight as well, sugar is easily broken down by the body and often will be stored as fat, whereas something like protein takes significantly more energy for your body to digest and make use of. Not to mention that most things high in sugar are nutritionally bereft which as a rule of thumb I try to avoid, the more vitamins/minerals etc you gain from the food you consume the better.

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

I like sugar free pop. Its an acquired taste. Yes I am a heathen.

 

[Jerk Sauce]

I like sugar free pop. Its an acquired taste. Yes I am a heathen.

I would actually agree with you on that count, so much so that the regular kind tastes a bit weird to me now on the odd occasion I have it, that much sugar in plain water. I do love my sugar free cola, I just add a twist of lime to it [bottled is best, tastes sharper than fresh] and I could drink that stuff all day. I know that it isn't great for you, but you can't really win either way [sugar/sugar free] so screw it.

 

[polonium]

I tried it over the summer. It really changes your palate and sense of taste. After not eating any sugar for a few months, even unripened fruits will taste incredibly sweet.

Seconding this. I cut out eating sugar and eating grains and starchy carbs (like a less assholey version of paleo) and I find I don't even want sugary or carby things any more. I ate some pizza the other day and afterwards it made me feel sick.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I cut out all sugar at the start. It was REALLY hard that way. The cravings were horrible. And I snacked on sugary shit allllll the time before. After about a week, I noticed the cravings bad gone . the hardest thing to give up Was Pepsi tho. I had a 5 can a day habit, so switching to water and flavored water was hard, but I did it. I eventually figured that if I was craving a soda, I could get sparkling water and either add a juice or a flavor like Mio or Crystal Light to it, and it fixed the soda craving without soda.

But DO NOT WITH THE SUGARLESS SUGAR. I tried Xylitol sugarless sugar for baking and gave my entire family a massive case of the shits. MASSIVE. Try using Splenda or something else. Most "Sugarless" candy or sugar for baking has Xylitol in it, which the package says "has a mild laxative effect". Ain't nothing mild about it.

 

[Tony Fuckin Abbott]

Sugar free is only useful if your a fat cunt who never moves and prefers cancer to heart disease, then again who wouldn't in their shoes.

 

[x.eight.six.systems]

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

I would actually agree with you on that count, so much so that the regular kind tastes a bit weird to me now on the odd occasion I have it, that much sugar in plain water. I do love my sugar free cola, I just add a twist of lime to it [bottled is best, tastes sharper than fresh] and I could drink that stuff all day. I know that it isn't great for you, but you can't really win either way [sugar/sugar free] so screw it.

Most of the health fearmongering about artificial sweeteners is based in pseudoscience. Some skeptic blogs have dug into this topic and its surprisingly interesting. https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/aspartame-truth-vs-fiction/

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I've heard from various sources that the issue with sugar free stuff is it makes you crave sweet things more and messes with your metabolism (As well as stories like https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ial-sweeteners-linked-to-glucose-intolerance/ ) but you get so many conflicted studies and advice it's hard to know what's true.

I cut out all sugar at the start. It was REALLY hard that way. The cravings were horrible. And I snacked on sugary shit allllll the time before. After about a week, I noticed the cravings bad gone . the hardest thing to give up Was Pepsi tho. I had a 5 can a day habit, so switching to water and flavored water was hard, but I did it. I eventually figured that if I was craving a soda, I could get sparkling water and either add a juice or a flavor like Mio or Crystal Light to it, and it fixed the soda craving without soda.

I did the same it was pretty tough at first but just drink sparkling water now because I like the carbonation.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

I've heard from various sources that the issue with sugar free stuff is it makes you crave sweet things more and messes with your metabolism (As well as stories like https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ial-sweeteners-linked-to-glucose-intolerance/ ) but you get so many conflicted studies and advice it's hard to know what's true.

I did the same it was pretty tough at first but just drink sparkling water now because I like the carbonation.

Exactly! I love adding the no sugar Cranberry juice to it. Gives it a bit of a bite!

 

[Too Many Crooks]

I tried eating sugar-free candy (Reese's, I think) a few times, and that always made my stomach churn.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

Don't know if this is a powerlevel but hell, it's funny.

My Moms, as her first foray into sugarless candy, ate a whole bag of Hershey's bars. A large bag of the mini bars. I warned her not to eat the whole thing, but she said chocolate is chocolate and it has never let her down before.

she called me the next day. Apparently the laxative effect didn't hit fully until after midnight, and she had taken her sleeping pills already and was a wee bit looped. so she runs to the toilet and shit literally everything in her body out over the next 30 min. so she gets up to go back to bed, and the second she stood up she got lightheaded and passed out, fell on the toilet and broke two ribs, had massive bruises all along her left side.

Yep. Mom literally shit herself unconscious by overeating sugarless candy. I am never gonna let her live that down.

 

[Team_RAMROD]

I am sugar free. It took a while to do so. Sugar is in everything!

With sweets, stay away from hard candies. They will make you gassy.

I have lost a lot of weight, and have a lot more energy, but you have to get through some really funky periods of lethargy and low-energy.

 

[Vecr]

Well, I don't eat any sweets really, the only real source I have is milk and some fruit. I don't think it's really hard unless you eat out a lot.

 

[Stoneheart]

I have gone Sugar and carb free a couple of times. Its super when you want to get some gainz or lose some weight, but its just not worth it in the longrun

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I've noticed a corolation between eating excess sugar and my anxiety being worse (Eating like shit makes you feel like shit? Who would have thought!) so I've made a point to avoid eating things with too much added sugar. I don't like to use sugar substitutes either, they're not great if you're trying to break a sugar addiction since they still trigger the "this is sweet and I desire more" part of your brain. I'll go on detoxes from all treats occasionally if I feel like I've been overdoing it but I love baking way too much to cut them out for very long. You'll have to pry my peanut butter brownies from my cold, dead, hands.

 

[MemeGrey]

Don't know if this is a powerlevel but hell, it's funny.

My Moms, as her first foray into sugarless candy, ate a whole bag of Hershey's bars. A large bag of the mini bars. I warned her not to eat the whole thing, but she said chocolate is chocolate and it has never let her down before.

she called me the next day. Apparently the laxative effect didn't hit fully until after midnight, and she had taken her sleeping pills already and was a wee bit looped. so she runs to the toilet and shit literally everything in her body out over the next 30 min. so she gets up to go back to bed, and the second she stood up she got lightheaded and passed out, fell on the toilet and broke two ribs, had massive bruises all along her left side.

Yep. Mom literally shit herself unconscious by overeating sugarless candy. I am never gonna let her live that down.

4 years later and this story is still making people laugh, thank you for posting this