June No Sugar Added Challenge

[Freya]

I ate a donut already.


I really suck at this

[Shorty]

Also, I spent some time going over low carb meal plans and such last night, and pondering over them, and I decided I'm going to give it a shot. It's a totally different direction for me as I've never gone without before, but I want to see if I can and I want to see what happens to my body if I do.

This thread won't necessarily focus on that, though - we're all about sugar here!

[Miss Mae]

Squash is something else outside of America.

To make it more confusing, we have both varieties of squash here.

[Del Murder]

I add sugar to frosted flakes >.>

Really anything that isn't froot loops level of sugar you can bet your butt I'm adding several spoon fulls of sugar. This is why I stay away from cereal

I think you might have a problem...

[Crop]

I'd love to join in on this, but I'm already about 23 years in and going strong.

I've never had a sweet tooth, indeed aside from most weekends, I eat and drink very healthy. I think the last time I had chocolate/ice cream/cake/fizzy drink/sugar added to food, was probably over Christmas time.

I have a number of friends who are just like you though, Shorty, in that they find it very difficult to control their sweet tooth. Good luck to you and Formy both, sounds like you might have good game plans going in so I look forward to hearing about how you're both getting on.

[Formalhaut]

Decided I may as well describe my progress as the days tick by.

It's the end of Day One - and nothing artificially sugary! I had a glass of squash, because screw it, if I'm not allowed soft drinks, I'm damn well going to have my blackcurrent squash

So far, this no added sugar challenge is going well. Only virtually an entire month to go!

[Jess]

i can cold-turkey cigarettes but giving up sugar is the kind of thing i would need to do in like a really super slow decline of sugar intake over a period of maybe 4 decades. i am trying my darndest to give up some of the junky sweet things I eat and I wish you way more than luck because it would crush me in about 3 days

I would be crushed in even less than 3 days. I mean, I put 3 sugars in my morning cup of tea. I have to have a steady flow of sugar in my blood stream at any given time or else bad things will happen

[Shauna]

We call squash diluting juice, which makes perfect sense, so no confusion with the great ol' veg

Matt and I have been trying and failing to cut out a lot of the sugar from our diet for mooooooonths. I do okay, but Matt randomly comes home with cookies and muffins and chocolate and I'm like really man.

Good luck! I will slowly whittle it down in my diet. Eventually. D:

[Shorty]

Matt and I have been trying and failing to cut out a lot of the sugar from our diet for mooooooonths. I do okay, but Matt randomly comes home with cookies and muffins and chocolate and I'm like really man.

god my sister does this and the other day my mom just stopped by with TWO GALLONS OF ICE CREAM for us and I'm like what the hell mom come on

and then I thanked her and spooned it out of the carton into my mouth

[Formalhaut]

I would be crushed in even less than 3 days. I mean, I put 3 sugars in my morning cup of tea. I have to have a steady flow of sugar in my blood stream at any given time or else bad things will happen

I remember serving teas and coffees to drunk people (who attended a club night on the University campus) with the Christian Union, and this girl asked for, like, 5 sugars.

I gave her 3, as I didn't want to contribute to any health problems. She was pretty drunk so I don't think she noticed.

[Shorty]

I am Leslie Knope

[LocoColt04]

I had some veggie chips (that's crisps for you blokes) and then read the back of the bag afterward and saw there was one entire gram of sugar. I didn't notice.

Also, none of the ingredients listed sugar, so it could just be what was naturally occurring in the tomato chips.

[Shorty]

ONE WHOLE GRAM

[Kalevala]

Would you be okay with posting some examples of what you've been eating instead? I'd like to try and follow suit.

[Pumpkin]

I add sugar to frosted flakes >.>

Really anything that isn't froot loops level of sugar you can bet your butt I'm adding several spoon fulls of sugar. This is why I stay away from cereal

I think you might have a problem...