How to Eat Less Sugar, Realistically
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I really appreciate how you add humor to the health improvement topics you discuss. Thanks for the positive spin!
Nope. It’s annoying. Why does every sentence of him have to be a joke?
This has always been the kind of health content I've really craved. What's not optimal but realistic? What's the tipping point of a change that makes it actually beneficial versus not? Your videos have encouraged me to move more - found varying research on step goals but I usually try to hit 5k per day, 10k if I'm able. I eat less sugar than I ever have (though I now get it's a process more viscerally than ever). I value managing stress and my mind more as a component to health than I did before. I don't sleep better yet but hey maybe someday! It's really helped me manage my symptoms better without triggering my disordered eating tendencies which so many wellness videos from other creators often do. So thank you. Just want you to know that what you do definitely positively impacts people.
My mind was absolutely blown in a bad way when I actually realized how much sugar is in typical carbonated beverages. I don't drink pop very often myself, so I wasn't very familiar with it. But one time my husband had bought a bottle of Pepsi and we somehow got on the topic of how much sugar was in pop, and he had me guess how much was in his bottle of Pepsi. I was like, "I don't know? 18 grams?" He said, "Higher." I said, "23 grams?" He said, "Higher." I said, "....25 grams?" He looked at me in confusion like why are you so bad at this and said again, "No. You're nowhere close." I was like, "What? How much higher could it be? How much is in it?" And he reads it off to me: "64 grams." I said, "64 GRAMS????!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!" I knew that was Way Too Much Sugar. We had some sugar cubes at home, so I went to check how many sugar cubes that would be. It was equivalent to 16 sugar cubes! I couldn't believe it. That was when it really sank in for me just how sneaky the sugar content of sugary beverages is, because nobody would manually add 16 sugar cubes to their drink and think that it was normal. You'd start to feel like you were maybe being a little ridiculous after 5 cubes, and you'd KNOW you were being ridiculous if you got to 16. And yet, people drink that much sugar on the regular, never having any idea that that's how much they're consuming, because you don't necessarily read the label, and even if you do, it doesn't always register how much sugar that actually is.
These are some of the exact habits I adopted to bring me from the brink of pre-diabetes and down 45 lbs. Small changes consistently make big changes!
Woooo congrats! Keep at it!
A couple years ago I switched from soda to Iced Tea and after a month was fully converted to unsweetened Iced Tea. Now I can't stand the taste of sweetened iced tea. Still working on cutting back the candy intake though. Great Video!
To add to read labels: learn all the names for sugar. Basically everything ending on -ose is a sugar or sweetener.
Don't go making people scared of cellulose and other fiber, enough people are scared of them being carbohydrates
Omg, Chyna, I used to eat that breakfast ALL THE TIME, and I honestly ate so much better and was at a healthier weight at that time too. Eggs on toast with salsa, and maybe a little cheese and hot sauce added...mmm...But now I'm eating more sugary breakfasts, and I think it's perpetuating that vicious cycle of wanting more sugar later in the day.
A long time ago I learned that 4 grams of sugar is a teaspoon. Now whenever I look at a label, I divide the sugar by four to see how many teaspoons of sugar are in it.
A 12oz can of Coke, for example, has 39 grams of sugar. Divide that by 4 and that's 9.75. Knowing there's more than 9 teaspoons of sugar in a can of coke makes me either not drink it or, if I really want it, split it with someone.
Watching your videos makes me feel not crazy for my healthy habits and thoughts. I really enjoy that your videos are just steps and suggestion and experiences in yalls health journeys
Can the phrase “Being Happy is good for you” be put on a t-shirt? Cause that would be amazing
Yes!! I think the most impactful change for me is how much sweeter everything tastes now. I bought this cacao cereal with no added sugar (I’m a chocolate fiend) and it didn’t taste sweet at all, kinda gross. Then I came back to it once I cut back and it’s now my sweet tooth fix! Wild, recommending this to everyone I know and love
I quit added sugar for a year a while back and it was one of the best things I've ever done. It also led to me eating less sugar when I reintroduced it into my diet. Also, as an American living in Vienna, it's not every day I see my name mentioned :) Cool!
your advice is actually very true. do not be harsh on yourself if you do decide to splurge on some additional serving of sugar. the point is just be aware so you would know what to do next. me & my husband been on this kind of diet while doing intermittent fasting (16:8), since january. TBH i thought we'd go back to our old habit, but thankfully we're still on this eating habit. ❤️🤧
also there are hardly snacks in our house to, so it helps us to refrain from putting unnecessary calorie within the day.
A friend of mine used to have several cups of tea each day, with two spoonfulls of sugar in each. When she stopped cold turkey, she got withdrawal shakes! So definitely be careful if you do cold turkey
i stopped eating a lot of sugary foods when i started working in trail crews and outdoor ed/hiking guide jobs. i just have no craving for anything more sugary than like, a popsicle, on a hot day. i used to eat entire pints of ice cream and hating myself for it when i was doing more sedentary jobs. being active really changes things. recently i got myself a pint as a treat, i missed it, and i could only eat about a third of it!
I love your more realistic approach to these goals nowadays. Solid advice.
What serendipitous timing! Just yesterday I decided to stop eating (so much) sugar. This is exactly what I needed on this grumpy second day, lol. Thank you!
Thanks for the reminder that I love apples with peanut butter a snack. Used to have that as a snack all the time and just forgot about it.
I bought a gumball machine and filled it with M&Ms.
Portion control!
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I've always said that too..."I'd rather eat my sugar, than drink it"
This is probably just a personal experience but weirdly, when I started having spicy food regularly (every other day, or a few bites every day) my sugar cravings eased off. I think it’s because what I personally crave is a hit of a big, flavourful taste that stays for the next few minutes. Spicy foods really call the attention of your taste buds lol.
14:50 - yeah Dove dark chocolates - I do those as well.. after dinner, tells me I'm done. but yeah sometimes I have too many (like 4, with a couple of graham crackers - its a slippery slope!)
Sour Patch Kids though……the white lemon ones. Amazing!
Good stuff, also using Swerve with erythritol and cooking your own food and making your own sugar-free desserts tastes as good if not better than the sugary stuff
I do keto for anti-diabetes reasons. But I also lost a ton a weight when I was eating 5 servings of veggies and 4 servings of fruit daily. So, both can work. (I made a point to eat protein, so all of that kept me too full to eat processed carbs.)
My favorites snack in the world is apple chunks drizzled in peanut butter with just a few dark chocolate chips sprinkled on top
Eating 🍏 watching this.
Already had my PB tho.
i just ate a big ass grapefruit. and it smelled kinda sweet. tasted kinda sweet. i liked it dare i say. but yeah i wonder if a good way to diet is to be vegan/vegetarian in the summer when there's more vitamin D and keto in the winter when fruits would be less available than meat and nuts... this would add that balance of having a period of "cold turkey" lol or without fruit/sugar.
We cut out processed sugar entirely (why the fuck is there sugar in broth??)
Since doing so both my wife and I have seen our BP's drop by 10 over 10 points.
FYI: I make my own salsa, everytime my tomatoes start to get soft or overly ripe. Homemade is better tasting an it takes only minutes w/a food processor.
calorie counting tip: Im someone who will be way too meticulous if i calorie count and stress out over being perfectly accurate if i count my calories. For other people who struggle with calorie counting for one reason or another I’d recommend instead… figure out what your daily caloric intake should be and then about how many calories each of your meals should be. Then not necessarily count each thing you eat, but look at the calories to see how much you can eat to stay within your limit or about what the right portion sizes for things are. This will be particularly helping for people struggling with portion control and over eating
Love your videos. Thank you for being our human test rat. 😁 and thank your wife for her patience of being another test subject for our benefit.
I carry a water bottle everywhere, also. I add electrolytes or protein powder for some flavor!
Quitting cold turkey SUCKED but it was worth it. I think I ended up quitting for about 14 days? The first week was the hardest. I thought the cravings would be the hardest part, but ultimately it really ended up spiking my anxious and panicky thoughts. No clue why. I ended up getting covid and being sick for 3 weeks after this and did have some sugar during that time. Post-covid I'm still avoiding sugar and I hope to eat this way for life. My energy is definitely better and I do not have the INSANE cravings at night for something sweet.
I've cut way back on soda. I still like the sweetness as it goes down, but I don't like the saliva-y mouthfeel you get after you've drunk it. Ice water with a thin slice of lemon squeezed in seems to give me just enough of the sweetness but my mouth still feels "clean" afterward, if that makes sense.
So my mom and I are trying to be better about eating less added sugar and she’s working on lowering her cholesterol and raising her good cholesterol, she wanted me to ask what brand of organic peanut butter you use.
Eating mostly Keto and Carnivore, everytime i eat or drink something sugary the pain and following Headaches going to straight to my Spine remind me why i made the change and speaks for itself. And i guess you dont really need carbs seeing how inuit or people from yakutsk live.
Always appreciate your content. Please consider interviewing a nutritionsist/dietician, specifically one trained in eating disorders, when creating diet/health content like this.
But....which one? Nutritionists/dietitian all have varying opinions bordering on "quackery" in many cases. But if you need a nutritionist to tell you "unprocessed food is better than processed foot"....don't know what to tell you.
It's pretty easy. Don't buy it and don't eat out. You'll cut it down by 90%. It's extremely easy for me because I'm allergic to cane sugar, coconut suger, and maple sugar so I'm pretty conscious of sugar.
I also tried this and honestly, I've realised that I need lesser and lesser craving for sugary stuffs in any type/form.....
I've taken to adding a few drops of vanilla extract to my plain water, and now it tastes like candy. mmmmmmmmmm
Fruit doesn’t spike your blood sugar, when your blood sugar spikes is when you can weight. Fruit is fine.
Wait.. thats the weird way to cut apples? That's how my whole family cuts them. Who else would you cut them?
What’s the thing with Americans and carrying water? Most of us are not living in the desert - it’s perfectly fine to be thirsty for ten minutes till you arrive at the next water tap…
Great team, you two. Thanks for the raspberry to the keto diet.
When I eat my sweets just in form of fruit, I get stomach issues due to my high fiber diet (I eat a lot of veggies bc I don't love pasta, rice and such). So honestly, I just use artificial sweeteners most of the time, for years now. I love sweets, was raised on them, had been overweight since childhood. Artificial sweeteners helped me a lot with losing 40kg and being healthy and fit. I add them to cake, oats, greek-yoghurt, coffee etc. I enjoy sugarfree pancakes everyday and feel fabulous. Not tired, no gut issues, just happy to have a sweet meal everyday
If you think they're the devil, feel free to scroll past my comment 😅
That’s literally how I cut apples! I even eat around the core. 😂
Eggs are good for dogs good for their coats and protein
I cut my sugar to almost nothing in 2017. I stay to 10g total per thing as well as tracking my daily meal plan through MyFitnessPal. Enough about sugar, I want to thank you for being the first video that said "Nauseated" instead of the colloquially accepted misnomer of "nauseous," grammar matters. Nauseous means you're a macroorganism making every microorganism around you feel nauseated; Nauseated means you feel sick. Now, if only I could find a video that uses "Plethora" or "Literally" correctly...
U guys should get the Yasso bars … the mint chocolate with chocolate shells is the bomb 💣
You should try cinnamon on apples it’s really good!
You and China are an adorable couple! I'm loving watching your videos cause you are hilarious 😆 !
I ate a piece of cake while I watched this
I mean.. I just stopped eating sweets and drinking soda. that's easy and realistic. those things should not be considered food. When i eat out, usually once a week or less I may pick up a sweet drink.
I do need help with quitting sugary soda. I love the poppy feeling and tingle as it goes down my throat.
Its oddly very difficult to find sparkling water/soda water here in Asia so I drink sugary soda cause basically I don't have alternatives. Is there other ways to get soda water other than soda?
Watched this while eating a pint of ice cream
The biggest thing in the US that is messing up everyone is eating sweet, carn rich food for breakfast. Waffles and pancakes with fake sugary "maple syrup" ms Butterworth, I'm looking at you. You get hungry so quickly after the sugar and the cards burn off in half an hour.
Eat eggs and bacon iinstead. Or eat whatever you ate for dinner.
I cut my apples the same way. It’s All Good. 😂
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That's the best way to cut an apple.
Hmmmmm, gonna start looking at trying to get it down to 24 grams. Honestly I have no idea what it is now…
Chyna said about soda "i'd rather eat those calories" and damn as a diabetic i've viewed sweet beverages like that all my life, and it's in words now! i usually don't want to waste insulin on something i drink when i can EAT with that :D
@Pᴀᴡɴ S𝜏ᴀʀ𝕤 ✯🇫ᴀɴ Some people are born with diabetes…
@Pᴀᴡɴ S𝜏ᴀʀ𝕤 ✯🇫ᴀɴ You're wrong. Type 1 diabetes is hereditary and you're born with it.
@Pᴀᴡɴ S𝜏ᴀʀ𝕤 ✯🇫ᴀɴ There are two types of diabetes. Type II is caused by eating too much sugar. Type I is an autoimmune disease that develops in childhood; it has NOTHING to do with eating too much sugar. If she's had diabetes all her life, then she has Type I. Don't judge on topics about which you know nothing.
@Pᴀᴡɴ S𝜏ᴀʀ𝕤 ✯🇫ᴀɴ Also, the "environmental trigger" you refer to is typically a viral infection. There is no evidence that Type I diabetes is caused by lifestyle or diet issues.
OMG same! I’m like, why would I inject for something that doesn’t truly bring me joy and when there are things like Zevia and Ices out there, traditional soda or juice just isn’t worth it. Glad to know I’m neither alone nor crazy.
Thanks for "redacting" the sugary-sweet desserts and such! 🙏 Some people don't do that in their videos and articles when they're talking about reducing sugar or the harm of sugar, and the visuals override my monkey brain into craving to eat them, ya know??
For anyone who is thinking about cutting off added sugar: the first 2 weeks are the toughest. But you WILL get past it and you WILL get to a point where you won't even have any cravings! I was a severe sugar addict and have been clean for several months now and I feel better than ever! TRUST THE PROCESS! You can do this!
Congrats!!!
I'm so glad that happened to you, and i read it everywhere, but for me it's just not true.
I thought I'd share it in case someone feels as bad as I do about it. I've been sick for the past 9 months and had to cut off sugar and sweeteners completely (plus other stuff, gluten, lactose, beans...). I still get cravings and have a really bad time. Sugar addiction is real, and some addicts quit forever and it's awesome but others would go back at it any time they've given the chance.
If you're in the second group with me, congrats, you're doing the good work, I'm proud of you, and I know how hard it is.
It's the same case for me... I had severe craving in the first 2 weeks. I call it my withdrawal period. After that it got easier.
Four days now. Nothing but meat and vegetables. No salt either. No coffee. No problems.
@deker095 some salt is okay because it helps with staying hydrated.
I drastically cut down my sugar consumption starting like 3 years ago using a method similar to what's described in this video, and I'm still going strong!! Literally everything outlined in the video is what I did, except one addition: for a couple days before I cut sugar, I ate my normal diet and just wrote down all the grams of sugar I was eating without judgement. It was wild to see how much it actually was, especially because I thought of my diet as relatively healthy. Then once I cut sugar, I also wrote down all of the sugar I was eating and tried specifically to hit that 24g goal. So it was cool to see a very explicit difference between before/after. I really only had to do that a few days to get a feel for what items I needed to sub out. Once you find all of the substitutions and stop buying the sugary crap, it becomes a lot easier. Lastly, 100% agreed on the 'treat yo self' moments being necessary. I still eat cake at birthday parties, celebrate occasions with deserts, the occasional sugary restaurant dish (hello, chinese food), etc, and I feel zero guilt about it. They're not off-limit foods. I just save them for the special moments. It's truly crazy how much I can feel the sugar spikes now though. Once you start feeling those again, it also helps keeps you in check.
Oh man, I love the idea of calculating how much added sugar I currently eat for a few days before attempting to make the change. I'm such a sweetaholic that I bet my number is scary high!
Very informative. Thanks for writing this out.
@Pᴀᴡɴ S𝜏ᴀʀ𝕤 ✯🇫ᴀɴ Hey, that's great that it's easy for you. It was easy for me too. But you understand that it doesn't make you better than the people who struggle with it, right? Cause when something's easy for you, but difficult for someone else, they're actually working *harder* than you when they conquer it.
I did the same. I had a food journal and in 2-3 days i understood where all I need to cut and substitute.
Finding your channel has made such a positive change on my health. I started walking 10k steps a day, cut back on sugar intake and started intermittent fasting. I've been doing this for about 3 weeks and am down 10 pounds and i'm starting to feel so much better. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences.
How's it going? Still keeping up with it?
It's a bigger and bigger problem all over the world. If you read the label at the most ordinary product that you wouldn't think it might have sugar, you would be surprised how much there is.
Just found out my goto garlic salt has sugar in it. Never would have thought.
I tried to buy muesli without added sugars and I could find NOTHING (at least not, y'know, without ordering online something which is 4x the price of the standard stuff....)
Now I have just oats and chpped nuts in plain yoghurt, which works fine, but like... it's more effort and it's not muesli
@@eolill what's your definition of muesli ? What was in your old favorite that made it better than your homemade version?
Maybe you could batch it and make a few at a time ?
I'd say maybe add some spices to the mix depending on what you like. So maybe you could add, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla . Also you could put in some salt .
I love sweets, don't like baking, so I only have sweets I bake. Also if fruit means you won't touch that candy bar, eat the heckin fruit
I have done the only sweets I bake thing. I love baking, but it was still helpful.
I find that brushing my teeth when I’m craving sugar (or food when I’m not actually hungry) mitigates the craving a lot
That helped me until I started feeling thirsty after brushing my teeth, and now I don't mind a minty toothpaste flavor added to any food, like soup, sandwiches, cake, milk, etc. So, it worked until it stopped working, lol.
Me too……also a sip of pickle juice does wonders for me.
I'm the opposite, I brush then the craving kick in. So I settle for fruit
Craig, you do not cut your apples weirdly. That is, indeed, the correct (read: best!) way to do it. Carry on, sir!
same
Agree on the apple cutting. Even Julia Collin Davison of ATK cuts them like that, and I now do, now that I've seen her do it, and it was a light bulb moment on coring them, easy peasy, lemon squeezy. 😁
I cut my apples and bell peppers like that.
That's how I cut my apples too... is there another way???
I thought the weird part was that your knife didn't look very sharp. Like a butter knife.
I've cut sugar cold-turkey several times over the last 5 or 6 years for various reasons (and always creep back up to a sugary diet. ugh) and it's definitely worth remembering/knowing: your body will have an adjustment period. After you cut sugar, you'll probably feel, in general, a lot more hungry than usual, and you may find yourself eating more food that you did before (or at least thinking about eating more often). It can take a few weeks for that feeling to go away; but it will.
And on breakfast point: I recently transitioned to having "Japanese style" breakfasts (for the purpose of decreasing sugar and gluten) several times a week. So I have miso broth, rice, and various simple toppings like a poached egg, raw veggies, or occasional some canned fish. Its filling and healthy and I feel pretty good after! I don't even really have the desire to go back to sugary cakes and pastries.
I love that you added "Do you feel bad about yourself when you eat too much sugar?" and Chyna said, "no...I take it a day at a time". Yes! That's the way to be consciences about eating habits without giving in to the downsides of "diet culture". I have gotten to where I like my smoothies better than ice cream.
There is ongoing research about how sugar affects gut biome and how your gut biome affects every aspect of your health. From what I've heard, it's best to limit your quick burning sugar intake so you aren't feeding the harmful gut bugs, and increase your insoluble fiber and resistant starch to feed the good bugs in your guts. Healthy gut = healthy body.
I tried not eating sugar for a month in June and it was a great experience! I felt a lot calmer and more energized after the first two weeks. Cutting down also just makes me enjoy the times I do eat sugar even more.
I love Chyna eyeing the sugar bag! When we were little I have distinct memories of eating straight sugar packets at restaurants. 30 years later and now it’s a coffee addiction! Sugar- the gateway drug to caffeine 🫣
As a kid I liked to drink the little half and half that came with my parents’ coffee.
Yep, did that too. We would eat out of the sugar bowl at home as well. My brother and I would take it into our room and scoop up sugar with chocolate chip cookies. |D
No. Sugars not the gateway to coffee.
@@InvdrDana GENIUS!
@@wintersprite OH! The creamer cups at the table! We used to pretend they were shots :)
I do keto and regularly eat fruit. I mostly stick to berries because they're high in fiber. Been doing this for a little over a year and have so far lost 110lbs. Eliminating sugar has notably reduced my inflammation and pain. Do what's sustainable for you, makes you happy, and helps you feel better.
I love this philosophy! Sometimes we can have an all or nothing mindset, but I think enjoying fruit/dark chocolate/etc regularly while saving indulging for special occasions is sustainable and healthy.
Ye I have the same, i am a very all or nothing type of person but overdoing stuff will stress you out. Sometimes a cookie or something nice won't kill you, just be mindful to enjoy it
Eggs raising your cholesterol was debunked like 30 years ago. Eggs is one of the healthiest things you can eat. Think about it; it literally has enough nutrients in it to become a living thing (if it were fertilized)…
Sorta...but the problem is if the rest of your diet is shit it can have negative consequences. There are also people who are sensitive to it. So this whole "black and white" crap people like to do is just annoying AF. Know what you eat, eat reasonably, and at least be a little "fit" (can at least walk a few miles per day)....get your blood work done yearly. If something is off....make a change and re-measure 6 months later. But you are you....you are an experiment of one. You are a not the average in a scientific study.
@@trepidati0n533 All the healthy living stuff, I agree… However… I was not saying everyone should eat eggs. I was saying that you shouldn’t avoid eggs for something that was debunked last century… Avoiding them for that prevents you from eating a food full of protein, omega 3s, and every essential vitamin in except vitamin C. Of course if you are intolerant, allergic, your doctor told you to avoid them, vegan, or just don’t like them, don’t eat them. But this Villainizing eggs thing should be limited to villainizing the industry that mistreats chickens.
The last time I tried quitting sugar, my mom came home with a family sized pack of oreos, two tubs of ice cream, and a box of chocolate covered frozen treats.
WTF, haha! Did your mom know??
@@sketchur nope. She just happened to get a hankering the exact day I decided to quit. Coincidence?
Your mom and my husband have a lot in common.
That’s… awful. Like, that’s not a hankering, that’s a problem. That would be like someone saying “I have a hankering for a drink” and coming home with half a dozen different bottles of hard liquor. I think your mom is an addict, or at the very least she’s gotten so out of proportion with sweets over time that she doesn’t get how much sugary food she just got. When I was growing up, we’d go out for a small Dairy Queen dipped cone every once in a while and that would be it. No ice cream in the house, no sugar snacks, maybe some kix or cheerios for breakfast, and if we wanted sugar we’d just put table sugar on it. What is up with food consumption these days, it’s like people are trying to eat their sorrows the way my dad’s generation drowned their sorrows.
@@TheLyricalCleric in her defense, she was having an extremely stressful time at work and wanted to eat her stress. But yes, her diet has been a problem that is too touchy to approach.
The moral of the story is and always will be - eat whole fresh foods and avoid processed foods.
True, and tips and experiences from others can help inspire us to keep with that, or get inspired to start. You're not wrong, but that's often not enough to motivate most people.
I had to quit cold turkey when I was diagnosed with type 2. So... don't get to that point kids. Diabetes is a serious disease that will wreck you.
That graph at 0.46 was pretty eye opening. I would have expected the Netherlands to be better at sugar andd fat (maybe all that cheese), though our obesity levels are a lot lower.
I also scanned for the Netherlands 😂👍🏼 I think if there’s anything keeping the weight average down, it’s cycling.
Its because the Dutch are so much nore active!
Craig, you could make a challenge where you only consume local and seasonal food. No traveling mangoes, no imported fancy nuts or crazy oils. I That’s a real challenge and a great topic to think and debate about!
I'd *love* to do it in my own life, but living in a place where it's full-on winter for a chunk of the year, and the growing season is really only June to September, local and in-season produce is pretty much impossible in winter unless you can preserve summer's bounty in some way, and then have the space to store it. I can preserve, but definitely not store 8 months worth of produce.
Obviously ideally we all eat as little sugar as possible. But as a sugar addict, focusing on eating fruit over cake or candy has helped me avoid binging. I still occasionally eat sweets but not nearly as often.
This is how I eventually kicked all refined sugar after being addicted to sugar. I let myself have all the fruit I wanted. It helped with the cravings while my sugar levels and taste for sugar recalibrated
And then there are dates. They are so sweet… I find it quite easy to not eat sugar while I have dates. The downside of dates is that your tastbuds will not learn that strawberries are actually sweet when your on the date standard. Great video! It is so rare that people grasp the importance of eating the whole fruit, because it is something different than the sum of its macros.
Australian nutritionists kinda put dried fruit into the same category as sugar. It's concentrated fructose.
Pickuplimes' video on sugar is a really good companion piece to this one! It goes into complex vs simple sugar.
It also goes into ways "sugar" might be written in the ingredients list.
Diabetic here - T2, ftw - and a significant portion of my life ago I cold-stopped with ANY full-sugar drinks. Drinking calories is dumb when you could chew them...wait, not the point. The POINT is that full-sugar drinks taste like drinking syrup to me now - they are NASTY. Yes, I'm thankful that fake sweeteners exist - yes, I know they're chemicals but then...so are the various 'natural' forms of sugar, so... Anyway, thanks for this vid! Fun and informative - great job! EDITED to add: and if you do find that you've 'accidentally' eaten too much sugar, cram some protein and fiber down your throat ASAP to lessen the glucose spike/etc then adjust your halo and move on!
Also a shot of apple cider vinegar can help (if it's actually acv, and not fake vinegar with caramel color and sugar added), or kimchi etc.-- acid also helps balance out sugar. #insulinresistance
I bought soda for the first time in 40 years. It was like a punch in the face. The fake over sweet taste made my whole face pucker. It was sugar free. Never again. Sparkling water only for me.
I have weak moments but for the most part I have lessened my sugar intake. One of my gauges is soda, I sometimes have a sip of my hubs coke and every single time, it is so disgustingly sweet I can't even fathom how I used to casually drink that stuff so regularly. YES to the occasional ice cream treat! I love my water bottles and I feel lost without it. ☺️ I do have to be careful with bananas because that leads to banana bread. 😂 but now that I've identified that weakness 2022 has been smoother. 😂
I cut out sugar as part of an anti inflammatory diet. If I want sweets, I make date balls! Put dates in the food processor with unsweetened cocoa powder and a splash of water. Purée, roll in chopped walnuts and refrigerate. It’s really good!
Good for you holding back on, at least, added sugar ❤️ You can actually live without sugar. The liver makes the sugar the body needs. I haven't had any sugar since February last year... which is extreme, but so is the changes 😊
I dont like the ButcherBox sponsorship
Biggest thing I learned from this video is: perfect is the enemy of the good.
A quote from Mary Berry of the great british bake off that stuck with me "If I'm going to eat sweets it better be worth the calories" which I try to apply to just about everything. Fast food, processed junk, candy, none of its worth it compared to what i can make at home. And if i feel like baking something im going to make sure those calories are worth it!
Yes, that's how I see it. If I make it from scratch, or I know someone made it from scratch (actual scratch, not box mixes and cool whip) or it's a really nice authentic bakery AND it's a thing I truly like, then I may have it. But people whipping out grocery store items or box mix things, those are a pass.
Also the people who say eggs are bad for you are idiots, eggs are good for you(and your dog in small amounts) dietary cholesterol has basically no effect on your natural cholesterol, and it's the best source of protein, i.e. it absorbs better than anything else. So yeah eggs are awsome.
Honestly the only paid sponsorship section of a video i never skip, too many good jokes, every other youtubers i skip through! Thanks for the jokes Craig
As I am watching, I’m eating M&Ms, and I think Chyna’s hair is really cute! Also, I’m now cutting back on sugar because of positive peer pressure.
I liked the video, but loathed the ad you did in the middle of it for a cruel and destructive company.
Thumbs down!
Your breakfast sounds great. I might try that with some avocado pieces thrown in.
I thought it's just me having to carry my water bottle everywhere. I completely freak out if I can't have it with me 😅 We have quite similar eating habits, I definitely follow the idea of eating healthily in 80% of the time and exercise regularly so I won't feel guilty about the remaining 20% when I do get some chocolate, cookies or ice cream. Once you start reading the labels on processed foods, it will definitely blow your mind...
I'm reading a book from Michael Pollan and he emphasizes that several different diets could work for humans, one common point is to avoid processed foods and they are stripped from the natural ingredients that help the body utilise the nutrients in the given food. I guess the same applies to fruits - sugar and fibre - as well (I'm only halfway through the book... I'm a slow reader okay?! 😂) But it sounds reasonable to me.
Amazing video, I love your humour and always happy to see Chyna too!
Ok hear me out.. I did Keto, I know , I know. But because of the sugar limitations, once I was back to eating everything. Chocolate bars (which I was addicted to) tasted like crap. Too sweet and overwhelming. 30 days of no added sugars and your tastebuds change for sure! I even started to like Mushrooms (which were my enemies before). Thank you for this video 🙏💕
speaking of chocolate, I don't like milk chocolate as much, I prefer bitter sweet, semi sweet, or higher % cocao chocolate preferable, and I don't need to eat a lot of it at a sitting. Sometimes I'll have a payday as it's mostly peanuts with caramel and that's better than most mainstream candy bars as a bite of something sweet as a treat.