I did it! I left sugar for good!

[Hitman]

It was already many months that I was feeling highs and lows in energy, sometimes exhausted, sometimes with full steam and I could not understand why. Then thinking about it I saw that actually I seemed to take a lot of sweet things, pour lots of sugar in my coffee, and I usually felt shut off some time after that (meals). So I readed a bit on the matter and understood what the frigging sugar was doing to me: The body will happily take as much sugar as you put in, but with all it does not use, it will turn into fat. We know that. But what many people aparently don't know is that for converting sugar into fat it must consume a lot of minerals, vitamines, and precious resources, leaving you in fact exhausted and with an anxiety to consum more sugar!

So I said: enough! and left it completely at one point. One month later, I have lost 5 kg, and I feel better than ever, no more changes in humour, energy, etc, sleep better and even my cholesterol has dropped. replacing sugar by complex hydrocarbons (Bread, pasta, fruits) makes the liberation of them much slower and they provide energy at the same pace your body consumes it, so you are actually in balance.

If any of you is feeling the same, really try it, it's amazing what this poison is actually doing to your body quietly. :stare:

[AVGWarhawk]

Good for you. The sweets can make life suck. I often stay away from desserts and candies. My I ask you something? If sugar did these things to you have you checked with a doctor? Diabetes and blood sugar can be a concern.

[NeonSamurai]

Well sugar can have it's uses. But large quantities of it are not good. A steady slow drip of it (specifically glucose) is though as that is the basic energy the body uses to work. That's why the standard IV they give in hospitals is a glucose drip, as it is instant energy with no work, and given slowly enough so that the body doesn't build up an excess amount.

Ideally you want a bit of both worlds, you want a little bit of sugar for the immediate energy effects (though there will be some intermediate as its not pure glucose), fruit sugars for short/intermediate energy (takes a little time to break down into glucose), and carbohydrates for longer energy.

Too much of any of them and the body will convert it to fat (including carbs). Carbs will give longer term energy, but it is not a slow steady output, just a delayed effect. Eat too many carbs though and you can defiantly put on the pounds.

Of course the other thing though is that sugar is empty calories. No other gains to be had from it (from white sugar that is, brown and molasses on the other hand have lots of other good stuff).

[antikristuseke]

Well sugar can have it's uses. But large quantities of it are not good. A steady slow drip of it (specifically glucose) is though as that is the basic energy the body uses to work. That's why the standard IV they give in hospitals is a glucose drip, as it is instant energy with no work, and given slowly enough so that the body doesn't build up an excess amount.

The standard IV drip here is 0.9% NaCl not glucose, I have been under an IV enough times to know that.

[AVGWarhawk]

Isn't the IV ringers lactate?

[Hitman]

My I ask you something? If sugar did these things to you have you checked with a doctor? Diabetes and blood sugar can be a concern.

Yes, checked but no problems at all. Quite the opposite, my body seems to get rid of the excess sugar quite well, the only problem is that I was feeling like roller coaster due to my habits of taking something sweet after each meal and poruing much sugar in the coffe on the morning. But now feels great - after all humankind has been living very well without white refined sugar for thousands of years :DL

[Jimbuna]

Congratulations my friend....a positive step in maintaining good health.

I now use sweeteners in my coffee but must admit to a pretty large sugar portion in my favourite tipple....dark rum :oops:

[Dowly]

dark rum :oops:

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[Jimbuna]

Often referred to as Nelsons Blood or falling down water :DL

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes, checked but no problems at all. Quite the opposite, my body seems to get rid of the excess sugar quite well, the only problem is that I was feeling like roller coaster due to my habits of taking something sweet after each meal and poruing much sugar in the coffe on the morning. But now feels great - after all humankind has been living very well without white refined sugar for thousands of years :DL

Good! Always good to check!

[CaptainHaplo]

or falling down water :DL

I shwere, tha floor fell up!

[Jimbuna]

I shwere, tha floor fell up!

Why's the room spinning round?


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