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I've found that if I have slightly more protien in lunch, I don't get an afternoon sugar craving. A dietician once told me that sugar cravings are due to not enough protein and I seriously have noticed a difference if I even have a handful of nuts for morning tea or some of the ground sunflower seeds on my yoghurt in the morning
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OK while i was TTC i cut out all processed food, which most contains sugar and i also only ate food that i made myself so no takeaways, I was then 12kg lighter than i am no
so i brought this book but yet to open it
i just wish i could have a handful of nuts but with DS recent outbreak of hives i will have to wait
but Yay to having a sweet poision quit buddy
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MrsMac, that brie is still allowed! Cheese and bickies! Fat, eggy breakfasts! All ok
Sangie, I am enjoying the book and I know I'm only on day 2 but so far I really haven't missed anything. The theory is that when you eat proteins and fats your brain produces a hormone that tells you when you are full. That hormone doesn't get produced when you eat fructose. Some of us are particularly sugar-sensitive and eating it mucks up our body's mechanism of knowing when to stop. Once you have withdrawn from sugar, apparently it becomes much harder to overeat. That's why fatty foods are ok if you are off sugar - it's the sugar that makes you eat too much.
There is a whole book about it called Sweet Poison, but I think the Quit Plan version might be a bit of a revised and abbreviated version, with ideas about how to get rid of sugar from your diet. I am not going as hard-core as him. I am the only one in the family kicking the sugar addiction, which makes it a bit more challenging as I will have to stay strong when I open the fridge and cupboards! I also believe in exercise a lot more than he does.
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Woohoo, Lou
Bummer about the nuts. But there are other good things to snack on too
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You know there is also a FB page!
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Ah! I might pop on there at some stage.
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Does that mean you'll bring a triple brie over this week?? Can I have the quince paste to myself then??
Loula- I am not coming to stay again until you are off this LOL
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Im trying this but the cravings are so bad for me
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Thanks Amy, sounds interesting! I'll check out the book. I reckon it would be so much easier if I could convince DH to do it with me and then I could get rid of lots of things in our pantry/fridge. Fat chance of that though, he loves his desserts!
Aligater, cravings are bad for me some days too. Just not sure I'm going to be able to cope with no choccie
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Is that all i had to do? you should have told me before you came last time? lol
did i tell you that i love you xx
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Yep, we are doing it here to. Finally a book (I recommend reading Sweet Poison to get the science behind it all) that has studies to back it up on why it works. The Quit Plan is more the way to go about it. I liked the explanation on how it becomes a chemical addiction, and really emphasises that you have to really not want to eat sugar to give it up, otherwise it is just like any other deprivation diet which will ultimately fail.
I just finished the Quit Plan book, so have to give it DH to read, but we are pretty much sugar free, or very sugar reduced, and now working out what we can buy etc.
Going to go and buy the sweet Poison book (originally got it from the library), so I can re-read it when I am feeling weak!
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Cow!!!!! Even sadder than my lovely SIL gave you rep points for it
Good luck ladies, I am a complete sugar addict and cannot imagine life without it so I will just cheer Amy on! (and maybe Lou LOL)
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