little rule of thumb for anyone wanting to try: practically anything in a packet, bottle, jar (excluding single ingredients like oats, rice, etc.) you can almost guarantee it will contain refined sugar because it's used as a preservative. took me a long time to figure this out lol - buying whole foods (fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.) and making everything from scratch is the way to go!
I'd course no health impact.....it was technically " sugar free " but still daily processed rubbish food. And artificial sweeteners keep a person craving sugar.
Please can you also try out a REALLY strict coeliac diet to highlight how expensive/difficult it is to eat gluten-free too? Sure, a lot of foods are naturally gluten-free - but every day life including simple pleasures can be really difficult. Pringles crips have gluten in them, a lot of packet sauces contain gluten, shops such as Lidl are particularly difficult to shop in for gluten-intolerant people (e.g. a lot of their desserts, special offer items are not gluten free) etc. Would be really great to see someone live a whole week how a coeliac has to and see if you notice a difference in your shopping costs and how happy you are with the number of "nice" things you can have x
I'm glad you brought up the disclaimer and talked about how when you restrict it often makes you crave more. This is SO important for people to realize who make these kinds of stringent changes that aren't specifically needed due to a health concern. Moderation is SO key but also can we PLEASE have products that aren't so processed. So exhausting to look for decent products at a decent price.
I wish there was a way to bake that wasn't so exhausting. Yes, I can make cookies or muffins but pastries, breads, etc. take so much effort, time, and money that it's easier and cheaper to go for the processed option unless you have local bakeries near you.
I'd love to see more videos like this!! like a super low glycemic index diet for a week, gluten-free for a week, grain-free for a week, whole foods for a week.. love you grace!
It's a legit struggle. I was on a low carb diet a few years ago and Taco Bell had a new caramel apple slushie. I have ALWAYS tried new items and new flavors of everything and I was doing Door Dash so I was at Taco Bell picking up an order. I just bought a slushy without thinking and it wasn't until I got back to my car and settled in that I realized I was drinking sugar. It was that automatic.
@@kimbarbeaureads oh my god i have a gluten intolerance and i was eating spaghetti strands *they're wheat* once i finished eating it i realised it had gluten.
I recently went refined sugar free for my inflammation due to fibromyalgia and it’s been SO hard mentally 😅but great for me physically! 💞Fruit is my new bestie!
I adore your conclusion. And you're spot on: deny yourself/restrict certain foods and your brain naturally obsesses over them. Scarcity reaction. Then you wind up bingeing on them to compensate. Allow yourself to have them whenever and eventually you just eat them normally. Love your vids.
I have been refined sugar free for almost 3 years, obviously with the occasional bit of cake here or chocolate bar there. But I just wanted to say that the sugar substitutes help a lot, and for me as a type 1 diabetic, it is all about reducing blood sugar spikes. So it’s still hard, but I think it’s probably easier for me as a diabetic because I really feel the effects sugar has on my body. Love your video and perspective! I really appreciate you trying this out!
Sugar substitutes are worse for diabetics than pure sugar, actually. They cause blood sugar spikes and crashes because your taste buds still think you are eating sugar, and then your body sends out more insulin. But because you didn't eat actual sugar, you just crash. It can also lead to weight gain. This has been studied extensively, so I would suggest you look into it for your future health. I have had many patients die because they don't listen. There are a few natural sugar substitutes that are better but nothing is better than eating whole foods, including real sugars, in moderation.
@@rapa2894 With Type 1 diabetes out body doesn't produce insulin at all ... My personal experience is that sugar substitutes don't cause a blood sugar spike at all, since I decide how much insulin to inject myself.
@@jadesh9006 Every case is different. Multiple massive studies don't lie. Like I said, research for yourself if you don't believe it. I don't debate facts.
Welcome to my life 🤣 I can't do any of the sugar substitutes (agave, sucralose, sorbitol, etc) and have to watch my sugar intake, plus other food intolerances means I have to read every.single.label. There are so many names for sugar and sugar alternatives that you just start making everything from scratch, but as you see even things that should just have one ingredient (dried fruit! nuts and seeds!) have to be checked as well. Good job, and we all slip up from time to time. Thank you for showing how frustrating it can be to be social when you have to know all the ingredients in your food! (now go enjoy that croissant!!)
well agave is sugar and sucralose and sorbitol are possible irritants as they´re artificial sweeteners, have you tried erytritol/xylitol? they´re natural and safe polyols that don´t store in your digestive tract, they "pass right through". i also am sensitive to these, but erytritol is usally fine with me,
I think if anything this vid goes to show how useful sugar can be in cooking for balancing flavour! Almost all tomato-based products have sugar in them because otherwise they end up being incredibly acidic, dried items like dried fruit use sugar to balance the tartness and/or bitterness that can intensify when the fruit is dry, and most (east) asian dishes use sugar along with vinegar, salt (or soy sauce), and other spices to create that amazing "umami" flavour (ex the "vinegar" in sushi rice is rice vinegar and mirin, which is a sweet fermented rice alcohol lol)
Definitely! But it's also in everything else and not every product needs it. Sometimes it's added for flavour to genuinely improve a product, sometimes it's added as a preservative, but a lot of the time, they add it because we're conditioned to like sweet things and will likely buy the product again.
Props to you for giving this a go! I had gestational diabetes during my pregnancy so that meant very limited carbs, not just cutting out refined sugar. They were some of the hardest and saddest weeks, until my baby was born and I could eat without as many restrictions - and because I got to meet my baby of course 😋It really made me think about all the people with diabetes who live with this as a life long struggle. There definitely needs to be more sugar-free options that don't have sweetners added and most of the ones that do need to be improved flavor-wise
I recommend getting a dehydrator and using it to dry fruit you’ve bought fresh, then you know that it doesn’t have anything added. Mango in particular is awesome, when I’ve done it myself it’s actually tasted more flavourful than what you buy in the shop
I think if you want to go sugar free, indian cuisine is an easy way to go, a lot of the recipes don't have sugar at all, you can make a lot of stuff, like a variety
@@merrymermaid Indian recipes made me (and my family) fall in love with lentils and chickpeas which makes it so much easier for me to be vegetarian in a household full of meat eaters.
@@Hazeydaze92 make sure you go to decent and REAL Indian restaurants. Like Chinese, some put in a load of crap and yes sugar to cheaply thicken sauces and enhance the taste for Westerns.
you are actually one of the few people who inspire me to eat less restrictively, to eat my chips, my sweets or whatever I crave for, but in moderation of course. it's helping me to slowly let go of diet culture which for me has never been sustainable.
I agree that everything in moderation is the best philosophy if you are otherwise healthy. The most interesting thing to me about these kinds of videos is the knowledge it gives you about just how many foods have added sugar. Our bodies actually don't benefit from eating refined sugars but they are as addictive as actual drugs so we still crave them. If you go refined sugar free for a while, your body actually stops craving the sugar because it is surplus to our physical needs. We eat 100s of times more sugar in our modern diet than at any time in history so understanding just how insidious it is in pre packaged foods is a great health lesson
Yes, balance and moderation are the best! But I do agree being aware of how much sugar is in processed foods is important. And it'll definitely be beneficial to try to limit those products in your diet.
My Hubby stopped eating red meat and sugar around 2 years ago (I don't eat red meat or fish either - only chicken on a rare occasion). Boy oh boy did it drive me bonkers in the beginning because sugar is in EVERYTHING! We make our own homemade bread and cook a tonne so we've adjusted quite well to it now....but just to be clear.....I am not sugar free. I couldn't do it if you paid me, teehee. Although my Hubby was born with anosmia (no sense of smell at all), so food is just fuel to him. He doesn't get tempted by anything because he can't smell it and his taste is diminished too. I'm convinced that's why this diet change has been easier for him. And he is looking and feeling so much better for it. Me? Nah mate...no thanks, lol. It's incredible how much sugar is packed into things you would never think of. Lee xx
I personally like a balance where I have some refined sugars when I go out or when I'm really craving something and other times I like just having a simple meal without refined sugars!! This has really worked for me in my ED recovery by not having any restrictions on anything!!
@@FortheBudgies Because she eats what makes her feel good.Not all people like sugary foods and that doesnt mean she restricts.If anything you should be mindful that you shouldnt eat too much sugar even if you are recovering.So how is that RESTRICTION?
exactly! strictly refined sugar free is probably not sustainable for most and actually, a little bit of added sugar doesn´t impair your health negatively, but having it in everything you eat and literally sprinkling sugar on the odd meal that doesn´t have any isn´t the way either. (not attacking Grace, i know basically nothing of her, speaking more in general)
I had to go entirely sugar free at the beginning of the year and it was SO hard at first but once your body gets used to it it’s alright but I do really miss sweets 😭
Whenever I attempt going sugarfree, I overeat trying to compensate for the kick sugar gives 🙄 it gets easier long term, but so hard to start. The industry really got us all hooked
@@FortheBudgiesright but we are talking about added processed sugars,natural ocuring sugar in fruits vegies and whole grains are good and our brains runs on glycose but limiting added sugar is good.And yes industry makey us addicted to processed and sugary foods.
@@nadagrbic136 As a diabetic whose sister died at the age of 45 from diabetes, I even do my best to restrict natural sugars to control my blood sugar. I still have to take metformin even with that restriction. Everyone's body chemistry is different. I am highly sensitive to glucose and I am very insulin resistant.
This was a great video, honest and amusing. I smiled through the whole thing. You were very brave because you really love your sweets. A good whole-food sweet treat we like at our house is a medjool date stuffed with a nut or peanut butter and rolled in cacao powder [fatfree cocoa bean], its delish and sweet naturally. Also black bean brownies sound awful but can fool anybody, sweetened with date syrup [cheaper to make than buy -- blend dates with water].As for choc milk or choc pudding use pureed dates too. Add 2 dates to any smoothie, frozen bananas, berries, flax seed, greens, nut butter, etc = instant sugar treat. We often make soy milk shakes [cacao powder, dates, frozen banana, vanila] that are thick, rich and sweet. With popcorn for movie night [uh every night]. Those are just a few things we do to lessen our added refined sugar. Donuts are my downfall too but you're so right ''life is too short'' to do without entirely. Thank you for showing how challenging it is to be completely refined sugar free. Cheers Grace and love from CT, USA, XO
I love when people like you make honest videos about safe experimental nutrition (with the proper disclaimers) because it gives a realistic view of what shopping and consuming certain foods (or lack there of) looks like! How often do we hear "oh everything has sugar in it now and days" and most of us roll our eyes and go "yeah!", and then when it comes to food shopping we only look for the very obvious and well know signs of sugar, but we don't see the hidden sugars and ingredients that may sometimes be a step up from straight sugar, but can still not be healthy.
I did this for 2 weeks earlier in the year and the withdrawals were horrendous! I got a cold too so I think that’s related. Felt so much better the second week though, but it’s so difficult to maintain. I had to do major meal prepping on the weekends to get ready for busy weeks 👍🏼
Loved this video! I miss your experimental videos of you trying things for 1-2 weeks! In the past I have tried to do various 'fasts' including: no sugar (or sweetener) for a month (lasted just over a week), no chocolate for a month (lasted almost 6 months in total but slipped up after I went sugar free) no lactose for a month (lasted 2-3 weeks because I found out your body needs lactose to create the bacteria to break it down?), no caffeine for a month (I am still caffeine free two years later) and reduced salt for a month (still conscious of my salt intake after this). By far the hardest was the no sugar for the pure fact that it is literally everywhere.. and it really limits your experiences when going out because like you said, they just swap sugar for sweetener. No doubt the dough had sugar in Pizza Express, and that's what's hard about it all. I cannot empthaise enough with people who go sugar free for health/medical reasons - well done you!
Oh and the chocolish nak’d bars are a great alternative to chocolate bars…I especially like the toffee chocolish and the peanut chocolish. When I’m refined sugar free I have an orange and a chocolish bar for my after dinner snack.
Oh god I can't imagine how hard this would have been. Sugar is in EVERYTHING! Hate to say it, but I looked up the ingredients to that pesto, because I was shocked it wouldn't have sugar, and it looks like it has glucose in. Sighhh. Well done for giving it a solid crack!
For me, my ED recovery has taken a lot of me. Btut it has also given me the healthiest mindset around food I ever had. Everyone else is on their paths and might enjoy eating sugar free but it takes so much mental energy up to restrict a large food group. No thanks, I rather use that energy into more fun and productive things, join in any meal with friends and live with a peaceful mind. Love the relationship with food you portray and your calm and nice persona. If you're ever in Berlin, girl, I am a foodblogger now so I can show you the best this city has to offer haha
Hahaha I lost it when you realized that sriracha might have sugar in it lol. But thanks for making my day! I have an exam today, and this was a great break from all the studying.
Great video. Sugar sneaks it’s way in so many items. Have you considered eliminating all oils, butters or shortening? That could be an interesting challenge for a video. Love you videos!
Loved seeing your awareness grow how sugar is added to everything! While I agree life is too short to miss out, it's important to be conscious consumers.
Very interesting video Grace, makes me want to try to do that for a week or so. And it would be great to have a follow up where you either find good substitutes for ketchup, srichacha, pesto etc. or try to make some of those yourself and freeze the rest to preserve. Your homemade breads looks always so gorgeous, top it off with some diy breadspreads. Also, dried soft figs are a good refined sugar/honey substitute in baking and don't require a blender- and it's also fresh fig season :).
13:46 “I don’t wanna be sat at a table with my friends, while they’re all enjoying life, thinking, “Ugh. I can’t have a donut.” …that’s not fun! That’s not a life worth living, I can tell you that for free.” Welcome to my life for the past 9 years. ☹️ Not because I’m choosing to be sugar free, but because the medical conditions I have severely restrict what foods (and drinks) I can consume without ending up in hospital. Missing out on food is hard enough, but missing out on the social aspect of eating / sharing food with others is the hardest. No more grabbing a coffee with friends. No more going over to someone’s house for dinner and actually be able to eat what they’ve made. No more birthday cakes with family. No more sharing a pizza with a friend. No more going out to try a new restaurant with your spouse. It really sucks.
Grace it’s my birthday today and you never normally post on a Wednesday so this was the best surprise of the day! Thank you for giving me the perfect ending to a great birthday. Love you queen
Does anyone else notice a change in Grace's behaviour after eating the refined sugar? Speech tempo is much faster? Or is it just me? Love you loads, Grace!
To make a sugar-free diet sustainable in the long term and sustainable on the wallet ya gotta go for primarily whole foods, not the processed, sugar-free 'health' foods
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol so not technically a "refined sugar" and it occurs naturally in a lot of fruit and is also used as a sweetener in a lot of products. Anything ending in "ose" is a sugar so glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose etc. are all sugars.
Great job, Grace! Btw. Sugar is in everything, because people behind the sugar lobby love to make some big bucks. It's very addictive and legal... Sugar sells! Owners of the companies love that too. lol
Yay grace! I commend you for doing this! I read another comment and also think you feeling a cold on was actually your body detoxing. Something to think about.. with Halloween rolling around my mum bought bag of Reese’s and there already out ready in a bowl and I’ve eaten like 6 of them since..sugar is such a strongly addictive substance and if you quit you will experience withdrawal symptoms just like any drug
Grace, just be grateful you only had to do the diet for 10 days! I just had my baby 4 days ago and was on the gestational diabetes diet for 28 weeks! Not only could I not have refined sugars but I had to limit unrefined sugars and carbs too. I couldn't even have fruit or porridge in the mornings! In saying that he was worth every single sacrificed biscuit!
I did sugar free February last year with a friend and it was incredibly difficult. We worked out it was easier to cook everything from scratch. Other friends said that we were really grumpy but we both slept really well that month. Had some sugar withdrawal headaches too!
Going sugar free was my News Years goal this year, I'm 10 months in now and it was without a doubt the best thing I've ever done for myself. Pretty much if you want to live sugar free and make it a life style change you have to start home cooking and wean yourself off of all processed chemically stuff
I did no sugar November and I lost 2kg in a month and 3.6% body fat. Felt so much more energetic. Funny thing was that when I ate sugar again I felt almost hungover
@@katyward1895 the 'hungover' feeling you get after having sugar after a period of detox is not surprising at all as studies have found that alcohol and sucrose are metabolised in the liver in a similar way. Lookup Dr Robert Lustig - 'sugar the bitter truth'
I've been avoiding sugar for a few weeks and decided I would make a keto friendly pumpkin spice bread with monk fruit. It has sugar alcohols which I missed when buying the mix. Just had a piece and feel so zoned out as well as blurry vision. Regretting it! Back to sugar free! Has to be a complete sugar free lifestyle....!
I had to go low carb and basically sugar free when I had gestational diabetes when pregnant. For 12 weeks. It was awful! My respect to diabetics where this is their life 💜
you could try a week of only eating the recommended amount of salt! Everything is way too salty nowadays and we all eat way too much sodium. Would be such an interesting challenge!!
Refined sugars are things made from corn, cane sugar and sugar beets. On packaging they are presented as sucrose, glucose, and corn syrups. Artificial sugars at lab made. The difference between artificial sugars and refined sugar is that artificial sugar has a low insulin response so it won’t spike your blood sugar like refined sugar will. If you want to use more natural/unrefined sugars try things like molasses, maple syrup (the real stuff), honey and coconut sugar. I only use sugar when working with yeast because I don’t know if it can feed off of artificial sugar. I love use sing natural sugars for substitutes and have been doing it for years. I’m also not saying I don’t have chocolate bars in my pantry as I speak. As a nutrition student I can say sugar is a widely misunderstood topic among society.
went vegan / no added sugar this week - maple syrup, banana and cacao powder, oats, berries and vanilla is a yum breakfast / in the oven for dessert ( could also use dates instead of maple) also date syrup + cacao powder is an easy 2 second Nutella hack
If you did want some kind of a sweetness in bars or homemade treats you could try dates, date syrup or health food products that contain dates like snacking bars. Usually found at health food shops. In Australia I've found some delicious products made with wholesome ingredients and things that are usually sweetened with sugar (like snacking bars, breads, slices & biscuits/cookies, cakes, and even smoothies or homemade caramel sauce) are made with dates. But I do love your commitment to zero sugar & sweeteners and that this video shows that sugar is basically everywhere and in almost everything these days.
Ive been sugar free for years for health reasons. Which naturally means i have to make everything from scratch, cant eat out, cant eat at other peoples homes, AND can only buy frozen or fresh veg/fruit because canned is done in sugar syrup. Most dried fruits have additives too. So if i need dried stuff i usually have to dehydrate it myself. Add on i also cant have salt so finding things that are both sugar AND salt free only having lactose fructose & sodium (in their whole forms) aka fruit veg etc. Its extremely hard to find anything processed or convienient or even what youd consider a basic ingredient that hasnt been adulterated. Its honestly horrific how hard and often expensive it is to eat typical whole foods. This turned into me growing as much as my own food as possible & preserving it myself for convenience and out of season otherwise i rarely can attain it and if i can its expensive af or you guessed it preserved with sugar and salt. Whats worse is theres not even a reason to add sugar or salt. Its not necessary to the recipes savoury or not but its always added. its so funny to me to watch people make such a song and dance over essentially living a small taste of my life. Homegrown & homemade tastes amazing and is better for you anyway 😊
If you freeze banana ( not overly ripe), then blend the bananas very smooth , it will taste like soft serve icecream. Surprisingly it doesn’t taste of banana
I'm 100% addicted to sugar, and looking back I think it probably started when my mam would give me sugar sandwiches as a treat 😅 yep, white bread, buttered and sprinkled with caster sugar. 🙈
@@natashaj4113 Okay so far, the only thing I'm really missing is the social aspect (birthday cakes etc), but I cook many things myself with vegetables and natural ingredients so that works well. Sometimes though, when I walk by a bakery, I really want the four weeks to be over :D
globulin is an inflammation marker, which could have been red before as you had been exposed to a cold bug, or perhaps the no refined sugar brought your general inflammation down a bit ?? also HOW did you get blood tests ?
from a health perspective, 10 days wont show you anything remarkable, it takes significantly longer for your body to detox, people say its about 21 days to break a habit/addiction, it took me just over a month to crack the sugar cravings i had when i went refined sugar free, everyone is different but 10 days is just scratching the surface on how much your body can change just from going refined sugar free. It would be interesting to see you go without foods that have ingredients in them that you cant read/dont know/chemically made.
Grace pls can you give us the recipe for that bakes pesto rice dish you made near the end of the video? I guess you showed most of what you did, but I´d love an actual recipe and ratio of the stuff you put. It looked sooo good
i had to live sugar free for 6 months bc of chronic gastritis issues and it was SO HARD 😭 i still limit my sugar intake but i am allowed some again and it is heaven. I just love pastries so much!
Grace sushi is not too difficult to make at home - you should do a video. Just takes a couple of attempts to get the rolling up with seaweed tight enough. Great video Grace. ❣️
I was just told to watch my added sugars for diabetes! And sugar alcohols do not agree with me. I try to mind my other "quick carbs" as well and the cravings are real. Thanks for this video!
Globulin is used by your liver to help clean your blood and fight infection, which either means your liver was toxic or you had an infection; probably the latter, since your liver enzymes were apparently normal.
There are various lessons to be taken from this exercise... Doing without sugar does have some health benefits. You seem to be the type of person who can eat plenty, sweets included, yet maintain a trim figure, so it perhaps makes less difference for you to do without sugar than it would for someone whose very life could depend upon reducing or eliminating their intake. Given the ubiquitousness of sugar within our general diet in the UK, it is no wonder that you missed it so much and struggled to avoid it. What fascinates me especially is the pizza meal you went for on the last day: you speak as if you didn't notice the hidden sugars, but I'd be interested to know if your initial perception of the taste of those items was any different than normal. There are some who, having undertaken a sugar fast, find sugary foods and drinks overwhelmingly sweet upon returning to them post fast. Then again, such people tend to be those who have undertaken the fast for longer, perhaps with the motive of eliminating sugar permanently from their diets; they aren't expecting it and it is an intensely strong flavour to them if it passes their lips, so much so that they don't continue eating or drinking whatever it is that has triggered that sensation. Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall would probably note that your most successful moments during your sugar fast were those in which you ate whole foods, doing as little as possible to them. Only whole foods, presented in natural state without refinement or processing of any kind, will be devoid of all except natural sugars. Arguably, eating an apple is better than drinking the juice of dozens of apples, because you get the sugar coupled to the starch in the apple flesh, whereas the juice will hit you with more of the sugar but none of the starch. (Ah, the age-old problem of carbohydrates, which give us something we need and something we could do without...) Re. 2:09 - there's one cereal that you can count on to be sugar-free. Unfortunately, it's oats, which at breakfast time are usually made into your Nemesis, a.k.a. porridge!
I had to do this for a year when I was 11. At the time it was almost impossible to find diabetic friendly foods, but I must say it completed changed my world. Obviously, being doctor ordered the health benefits were why I was forced to do it (imagine being a child and having no sugar! Couldn't even eat carrots because they have a high level of sugar compared to most other veg) but in general I do recall feeling just generally mentally stronger. The moment I was allowed to go back to a normal, non-restricted diet my weight gain was quite strong which was fine as I was a child but the lethargy definitely was the most obvious. In the end, I no longer craved sweets and such as often and this has been a general pattern in my adult life, too. Seems silly, but just cutting down on sugar is amazing for your health and even better for your mental efficacy. Fruit and veg have more than enough sugar in them such that you're not being overly restrictive of it in a n unhealthy way. Just recommend it strongly if you feel lethargic and are struggling with migraines. PS. I see no issue with having desserts and sweets etc. I will have them when I crave them. Just wrth noting that BALANCE is important, especially if like me you had hypoglycemia or anything that cuold lead to serious health issues.
Just burst out laughing at “well that’s a stone in the heelies” hahhaa best thing I’ve heard in a while
Classic Grackle 💞
I literally ran to the comments to see if anyone else heard this too! Haha 😂
little rule of thumb for anyone wanting to try: practically anything in a packet, bottle, jar (excluding single ingredients like oats, rice, etc.) you can almost guarantee it will contain refined sugar because it's used as a preservative. took me a long time to figure this out lol - buying whole foods (fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.) and making everything from scratch is the way to go!
I'd course no health impact.....it was technically " sugar free " but still daily processed rubbish food. And artificial sweeteners keep a person craving sugar.
thank's a lot!
Please can you also try out a REALLY strict coeliac diet to highlight how expensive/difficult it is to eat gluten-free too? Sure, a lot of foods are naturally gluten-free - but every day life including simple pleasures can be really difficult. Pringles crips have gluten in them, a lot of packet sauces contain gluten, shops such as Lidl are particularly difficult to shop in for gluten-intolerant people (e.g. a lot of their desserts, special offer items are not gluten free) etc. Would be really great to see someone live a whole week how a coeliac has to and see if you notice a difference in your shopping costs and how happy you are with the number of "nice" things you can have x
Yes I think it would be really interesting! I have celiac disease too, it's so rare to see people talk about how hard it actually is.
I am shocked that Pringles crisps have gluten in it! Isn't it just potate, salt, oil? 😨
@@melodyleong sadly not
@@melodyleong oh nooo, pringles are not just that, you dont want to know how pringles are made, but there other good chips much better and healthier
@@melodyleong its only about 40% potato! The rest is mostly rice flour then oil and flavouring
I'm glad you brought up the disclaimer and talked about how when you restrict it often makes you crave more. This is SO important for people to realize who make these kinds of stringent changes that aren't specifically needed due to a health concern. Moderation is SO key but also can we PLEASE have products that aren't so processed. So exhausting to look for decent products at a decent price.
I feel you !
I wish there was a way to bake that wasn't so exhausting. Yes, I can make cookies or muffins but pastries, breads, etc. take so much effort, time, and money that it's easier and cheaper to go for the processed option unless you have local bakeries near you.
@@TheSongwritingCat Oh 10000% on all of this!
I'd love to see more videos like this!! like a super low glycemic index diet for a week, gluten-free for a week, grain-free for a week, whole foods for a week.. love you grace!
She's done gluten free for a week already, but wholefood's for a week would be interesting to see
Making everything from scratch and not buying any processed foods for a week would be great to see!
I love how you included the pizza express slip up even though we wouldn’t have known! We appreciate the honesty xx
It's a legit struggle. I was on a low carb diet a few years ago and Taco Bell had a new caramel apple slushie. I have ALWAYS tried new items and new flavors of everything and I was doing Door Dash so I was at Taco Bell picking up an order. I just bought a slushy without thinking and it wasn't until I got back to my car and settled in that I realized I was drinking sugar. It was that automatic.
@@kimbarbeaureads oh my god i have a gluten intolerance and i was eating spaghetti strands *they're wheat* once i finished eating it i realised it had gluten.
I recently went refined sugar free for my inflammation due to fibromyalgia and it’s been SO hard mentally 😅but great for me physically! 💞Fruit is my new bestie!
The best of luck to you
So good to know it is actually helping you :O)
I have been diagnosed this a year ago don’t know abt it.
You having a Churro less than a day in shows just how much self control I would have doing this challenge🤣😫
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God damn Miss Ross, I haven't had a churro for over 2 years!!! I want I want. 😋
I adore your conclusion. And you're spot on: deny yourself/restrict certain foods and your brain naturally obsesses over them. Scarcity reaction. Then you wind up bingeing on them to compensate. Allow yourself to have them whenever and eventually you just eat them normally. Love your vids.
Me when I was vegan
I have been refined sugar free for almost 3 years, obviously with the occasional bit of cake here or chocolate bar there. But I just wanted to say that the sugar substitutes help a lot, and for me as a type 1 diabetic, it is all about reducing blood sugar spikes. So it’s still hard, but I think it’s probably easier for me as a diabetic because I really feel the effects sugar has on my body.
Love your video and perspective! I really appreciate you trying this out!
Sugar substitutes are worse for diabetics than pure sugar, actually. They cause blood sugar spikes and crashes because your taste buds still think you are eating sugar, and then your body sends out more insulin. But because you didn't eat actual sugar, you just crash. It can also lead to weight gain. This has been studied extensively, so I would suggest you look into it for your future health. I have had many patients die because they don't listen. There are a few natural sugar substitutes that are better but nothing is better than eating whole foods, including real sugars, in moderation.
@@rapa2894 With Type 1 diabetes out body doesn't produce insulin at all ... My personal experience is that sugar substitutes don't cause a blood sugar spike at all, since I decide how much insulin to inject myself.
@@jadesh9006 Every case is different. Multiple massive studies don't lie. Like I said, research for yourself if you don't believe it. I don't debate facts.
@@rapa2894 i dont touch surger or very little !
Instead of sugar substitutes, try something like monkfruit sweetener. Tastes pretty good, but there's no sugar.
Welcome to my life 🤣 I can't do any of the sugar substitutes (agave, sucralose, sorbitol, etc) and have to watch my sugar intake, plus other food intolerances means I have to read every.single.label. There are so many names for sugar and sugar alternatives that you just start making everything from scratch, but as you see even things that should just have one ingredient (dried fruit! nuts and seeds!) have to be checked as well. Good job, and we all slip up from time to time. Thank you for showing how frustrating it can be to be social when you have to know all the ingredients in your food! (now go enjoy that croissant!!)
well agave is sugar and sucralose and sorbitol are possible irritants as they´re artificial sweeteners, have you tried erytritol/xylitol? they´re natural and safe polyols that don´t store in your digestive tract, they "pass right through". i also am sensitive to these, but erytritol is usally fine with me,
“A life without sugar is a life not worth living” - as a type 1 diabetic, we know 😅
I think if anything this vid goes to show how useful sugar can be in cooking for balancing flavour! Almost all tomato-based products have sugar in them because otherwise they end up being incredibly acidic, dried items like dried fruit use sugar to balance the tartness and/or bitterness that can intensify when the fruit is dry, and most (east) asian dishes use sugar along with vinegar, salt (or soy sauce), and other spices to create that amazing "umami" flavour (ex the "vinegar" in sushi rice is rice vinegar and mirin, which is a sweet fermented rice alcohol lol)
Definitely! But it's also in everything else and not every product needs it. Sometimes it's added for flavour to genuinely improve a product, sometimes it's added as a preservative, but a lot of the time, they add it because we're conditioned to like sweet things and will likely buy the product again.
Props to you for giving this a go! I had gestational diabetes during my pregnancy so that meant very limited carbs, not just cutting out refined sugar. They were some of the hardest and saddest weeks, until my baby was born and I could eat without as many restrictions - and because I got to meet my baby of course 😋It really made me think about all the people with diabetes who live with this as a life long struggle. There definitely needs to be more sugar-free options that don't have sweetners added and most of the ones that do need to be improved flavor-wise
This is brilliant Grace. Just covered sugar with my home economics class and I’ll definitely be showing them this.
I recommend getting a dehydrator and using it to dry fruit you’ve bought fresh, then you know that it doesn’t have anything added. Mango in particular is awesome, when I’ve done it myself it’s actually tasted more flavourful than what you buy in the shop
I think if you want to go sugar free, indian cuisine is an easy way to go, a lot of the recipes don't have sugar at all, you can make a lot of stuff, like a variety
I LOOOOOOVE INDIAN FOOD!
i also find that it’s incredibly easy to be vegan through indian food, and the plus is that it’s amazingly delicious!
@@merrymermaid Indian recipes made me (and my family) fall in love with lentils and chickpeas which makes it so much easier for me to be vegetarian in a household full of meat eaters.
Indian food is the best cuisine, we Brits LOVE it
@@Hazeydaze92 make sure you go to decent and REAL Indian restaurants. Like Chinese, some put in a load of crap and yes sugar to cheaply thicken sauces and enhance the taste for Westerns.
you are actually one of the few people who inspire me to eat less restrictively, to eat my chips, my sweets or whatever I crave for, but in moderation of course. it's helping me to slowly let go of diet culture which for me has never been sustainable.
I agree that everything in moderation is the best philosophy if you are otherwise healthy. The most interesting thing to me about these kinds of videos is the knowledge it gives you about just how many foods have added sugar. Our bodies actually don't benefit from eating refined sugars but they are as addictive as actual drugs so we still crave them. If you go refined sugar free for a while, your body actually stops craving the sugar because it is surplus to our physical needs. We eat 100s of times more sugar in our modern diet than at any time in history so understanding just how insidious it is in pre packaged foods is a great health lesson
Yes, balance and moderation are the best! But I do agree being aware of how much sugar is in processed foods is important. And it'll definitely be beneficial to try to limit those products in your diet.
My Hubby stopped eating red meat and sugar around 2 years ago (I don't eat red meat or fish either - only chicken on a rare occasion). Boy oh boy did it drive me bonkers in the beginning because sugar is in EVERYTHING! We make our own homemade bread and cook a tonne so we've adjusted quite well to it now....but just to be clear.....I am not sugar free. I couldn't do it if you paid me, teehee. Although my Hubby was born with anosmia (no sense of smell at all), so food is just fuel to him. He doesn't get tempted by anything because he can't smell it and his taste is diminished too. I'm convinced that's why this diet change has been easier for him. And he is looking and feeling so much better for it. Me? Nah mate...no thanks, lol. It's incredible how much sugar is packed into things you would never think of. Lee xx
I have anosmia too but I eat more sweets because it’s one flavor that I can really taste
It’s the same with milk too they put it in everything
Haha you can fart all night 🤣
I personally like a balance where I have some refined sugars when I go out or when I'm really craving something and other times I like just having a simple meal without refined sugars!! This has really worked for me in my ED recovery by not having any restrictions on anything!!
How is that not a restriction?
@@FortheBudgies Because she eats what makes her feel good.Not all people like sugary foods and that doesnt mean she restricts.If anything you should be mindful that you shouldnt eat too much sugar even if you are recovering.So how is that RESTRICTION?
exactly! strictly refined sugar free is probably not sustainable for most and actually, a little bit of added sugar doesn´t impair your health negatively, but having it in everything you eat and literally sprinkling sugar on the odd meal that doesn´t have any isn´t the way either. (not attacking Grace, i know basically nothing of her, speaking more in general)
I had to go entirely sugar free at the beginning of the year and it was SO hard at first but once your body gets used to it it’s alright but I do really miss sweets 😭
Whenever I attempt going sugarfree, I overeat trying to compensate for the kick sugar gives 🙄 it gets easier long term, but so hard to start. The industry really got us all hooked
If you like olives and/or pickles I found eating those helped get through the cravings.
They often also have sugar in the brine
Actually the fact that your body and brain literally run on sugar has you hooked on it. No dietician will recommend sugar free.
@@FortheBudgiesright but we are talking about added processed sugars,natural ocuring sugar in fruits vegies and whole grains are good and our brains runs on glycose but limiting added sugar is good.And yes industry makey us addicted to processed and sugary foods.
@@nadagrbic136 As a diabetic whose sister died at the age of 45 from diabetes, I even do my best to restrict natural sugars to control my blood sugar. I still have to take metformin even with that restriction. Everyone's body chemistry is different. I am highly sensitive to glucose and I am very insulin resistant.
This was a great video, honest and amusing. I smiled through the whole thing. You were very brave because you really love your sweets. A good whole-food sweet treat we like at our house is a medjool date stuffed with a nut or peanut butter and rolled in cacao powder [fatfree cocoa bean], its delish and sweet naturally. Also black bean brownies sound awful but can fool anybody, sweetened with date syrup [cheaper to make than buy -- blend dates with water].As for choc milk or choc pudding use pureed dates too. Add 2 dates to any smoothie, frozen bananas, berries, flax seed, greens, nut butter, etc = instant sugar treat. We often make soy milk shakes [cacao powder, dates, frozen banana, vanila] that are thick, rich and sweet. With popcorn for movie night [uh every night]. Those are just a few things we do to lessen our added refined sugar. Donuts are my downfall too but you're so right ''life is too short'' to do without entirely. Thank you for showing how challenging it is to be completely refined sugar free. Cheers Grace and love from CT, USA, XO
I love when people like you make honest videos about safe experimental nutrition (with the proper disclaimers) because it gives a realistic view of what shopping and consuming certain foods (or lack there of) looks like! How often do we hear "oh everything has sugar in it now and days" and most of us roll our eyes and go "yeah!", and then when it comes to food shopping we only look for the very obvious and well know signs of sugar, but we don't see the hidden sugars and ingredients that may sometimes be a step up from straight sugar, but can still not be healthy.
Every time Grackle posts a new video my day is instantly better. THANK YOU GRACE for always being my RUclipsr idol and overall life inspiration ✌
I’d love the pesto rice recipe if you are able to post it somewhere.
You just reminded me of that one pot mushroom pesto fettuccine recipe she did years ago!! 😋
Ooh me too!
i was here in the comments thinking about the same thing, i even googled the recipe but no matches
Omg! Grace has posted right when I finished my homework. TELL ME ABOUT PERFECT TIMING! 💕
Jason’s sourdough is the BEST bread ever, I had no idea it had no added sugar. I have lived off that bread for months 😂😍
As a coealic and milk protein allergy + ibd... Always reading labels and missing out. You will be surprised by the abount of shit in food.
Chrons here *relatable af!* how bs is it!
UC here and I agree🥲
@@EmmaAppleBerry Currently mid flare, not being able to work. Contemplating if I should eat solids or liquid only.... Food is bs
I did this for 2 weeks earlier in the year and the withdrawals were horrendous! I got a cold too so I think that’s related. Felt so much better the second week though, but it’s so difficult to maintain. I had to do major meal prepping on the weekends to get ready for busy weeks 👍🏼
Loved this video! I miss your experimental videos of you trying things for 1-2 weeks!
In the past I have tried to do various 'fasts' including: no sugar (or sweetener) for a month (lasted just over a week), no chocolate for a month (lasted almost 6 months in total but slipped up after I went sugar free) no lactose for a month (lasted 2-3 weeks because I found out your body needs lactose to create the bacteria to break it down?), no caffeine for a month (I am still caffeine free two years later) and reduced salt for a month (still conscious of my salt intake after this). By far the hardest was the no sugar for the pure fact that it is literally everywhere.. and it really limits your experiences when going out because like you said, they just swap sugar for sweetener. No doubt the dough had sugar in Pizza Express, and that's what's hard about it all.
I cannot empthaise enough with people who go sugar free for health/medical reasons - well done you!
Oh and the chocolish nak’d bars are a great alternative to chocolate bars…I especially like the toffee chocolish and the peanut chocolish. When I’m refined sugar free I have an orange and a chocolish bar for my after dinner snack.
Oh god I can't imagine how hard this would have been. Sugar is in EVERYTHING! Hate to say it, but I looked up the ingredients to that pesto, because I was shocked it wouldn't have sugar, and it looks like it has glucose in. Sighhh. Well done for giving it a solid crack!
For me, my ED recovery has taken a lot of me. Btut it has also given me the healthiest mindset around food I ever had. Everyone else is on their paths and might enjoy eating sugar free but it takes so much mental energy up to restrict a large food group. No thanks, I rather use that energy into more fun and productive things, join in any meal with friends and live with a peaceful mind. Love the relationship with food you portray and your calm and nice persona. If you're ever in Berlin, girl, I am a foodblogger now so I can show you the best this city has to offer haha
Hahaha I lost it when you realized that sriracha might have sugar in it lol. But thanks for making my day! I have an exam today, and this was a great break from all the studying.
Great video. Sugar sneaks it’s way in so many items. Have you considered eliminating all oils, butters or shortening? That could be an interesting challenge for a video. Love you videos!
I just opened RUclips and thought “hmmm I wonder if Grace posted today”, and you have !! So excited to watch!
Loved seeing your awareness grow how sugar is added to everything! While I agree life is too short to miss out, it's important to be conscious consumers.
Very interesting video Grace, makes me want to try to do that for a week or so. And it would be great to have a follow up where you either find good substitutes for ketchup, srichacha, pesto etc. or try to make some of those yourself and freeze the rest to preserve. Your homemade breads looks always so gorgeous, top it off with some diy breadspreads. Also, dried soft figs are a good refined sugar/honey substitute in baking and don't require a blender- and it's also fresh fig season :).
They have options for all of that...I'm diabetic.
Do it for longer than a week if you can, otherwise its not really long enough to tell whether it has an impact
Sarah Wilson’s I quit Sugar is a really great place to start. It breaks down the effects of sugar and the types of sugars to avoid.
Can we have another 5 days of dinner video! I know you’ve done a few but I just love them and I need dinner ideas to make for uni xx
13:46
“I don’t wanna be sat at a table with my friends, while they’re all enjoying life, thinking, “Ugh. I can’t have a donut.” …that’s not fun! That’s not a life worth living, I can tell you that for free.”
Welcome to my life for the past 9 years. ☹️
Not because I’m choosing to be sugar free, but because the medical conditions I have severely restrict what foods (and drinks) I can consume without ending up in hospital.
Missing out on food is hard enough, but missing out on the social aspect of eating / sharing food with others is the hardest. No more grabbing a coffee with friends. No more going over to someone’s house for dinner and actually be able to eat what they’ve made. No more birthday cakes with family. No more sharing a pizza with a friend. No more going out to try a new restaurant with your spouse. It really sucks.
Grace it’s my birthday today and you never normally post on a Wednesday so this was the best surprise of the day! Thank you for giving me the perfect ending to a great birthday. Love you queen
Happy Birthday 🎉
Happy belated birthday!! Hope you had a lovely day xx
@@rapa2894 thank you !!
@@hii2773 I sure did! Thank you so much 🥳
16:15 is my favourite part of the entire video! BURST OUT LAUGHING!!
Does anyone else notice a change in Grace's behaviour after eating the refined sugar? Speech tempo is much faster? Or is it just me? Love you loads, Grace!
A new Grackle vid is just the comfort and calm I needed today. Thanks Grace
To make a sugar-free diet sustainable in the long term and sustainable on the wallet ya gotta go for primarily whole foods, not the processed, sugar-free 'health' foods
I love seeing videos like these ! Its very eye opening to see what nonsensical ingredients are added to our everyday foods .
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol so not technically a "refined sugar" and it occurs naturally in a lot of fruit and is also used as a sweetener in a lot of products. Anything ending in "ose" is a sugar so glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose etc. are all sugars.
Roasting pumpkin seeds rn this is immaculate cosy vibes
Great job, Grace! Btw. Sugar is in everything, because people behind the sugar lobby love to make some big bucks. It's very addictive and legal... Sugar sells! Owners of the companies love that too. lol
Gracey getting annoyed at the prices of free from food is me everytime I go to the shops as someone with a wheat and dairy intolerance 🙃
same everything is soo expensive even some biscuits. i just make most things from scratch now
I love your honesty about times you slipped up - great video as always chum x
Me watching this while eating a massive bag of giant chocolate buttons 👀
Two kit kat chunkies in a row for me! One was peanut flavour tho.... :)
Yay grace! I commend you for doing this! I read another comment and also think you feeling a cold on was actually your body detoxing. Something to think about.. with Halloween rolling around my mum bought bag of Reese’s and there already out ready in a bowl and I’ve eaten like 6 of them since..sugar is such a strongly addictive substance and if you quit you will experience withdrawal symptoms just like any drug
Another great video! I love your editing. @1:06 those cuts in time with the music were so satisfying! 😂
Grace, just be grateful you only had to do the diet for 10 days! I just had my baby 4 days ago and was on the gestational diabetes diet for 28 weeks! Not only could I not have refined sugars but I had to limit unrefined sugars and carbs too. I couldn't even have fruit or porridge in the mornings! In saying that he was worth every single sacrificed biscuit!
I did sugar free February last year with a friend and it was incredibly difficult. We worked out it was easier to cook everything from scratch. Other friends said that we were really grumpy but we both slept really well that month. Had some sugar withdrawal headaches too!
I would tell your doc your globulin level was elevated before. Loved the video!
Going sugar free was my News Years goal this year, I'm 10 months in now and it was without a doubt the best thing I've ever done for myself. Pretty much if you want to live sugar free and make it a life style change you have to start home cooking and wean yourself off of all processed chemically stuff
Which positive changes have you felt? Have you only gone sugar free or also changed your eating to be healthier overall?
I did no sugar November and I lost 2kg in a month and 3.6% body fat. Felt so much more energetic. Funny thing was that when I ate sugar again I felt almost hungover
@@katyward1895 the 'hungover' feeling you get after having sugar after a period of detox is not surprising at all as studies have found that alcohol and sucrose are metabolised in the liver in a similar way. Lookup Dr Robert Lustig - 'sugar the bitter truth'
@@nafisa8924 yes I can completely see that
I've been avoiding sugar for a few weeks and decided I would make a keto friendly pumpkin spice bread with monk fruit. It has sugar alcohols which I missed when buying the mix. Just had a piece and feel so zoned out as well as blurry vision. Regretting it! Back to sugar free! Has to be a complete sugar free lifestyle....!
I had to go low carb and basically sugar free when I had gestational diabetes when pregnant. For 12 weeks. It was awful!
My respect to diabetics where this is their life 💜
you could try a week of only eating the recommended amount of salt! Everything is way too salty nowadays and we all eat way too much sodium. Would be such an interesting challenge!!
Refined sugars are things made from corn, cane sugar and sugar beets. On packaging they are presented as sucrose, glucose, and corn syrups. Artificial sugars at lab made. The difference between artificial sugars and refined sugar is that artificial sugar has a low insulin response so it won’t spike your blood sugar like refined sugar will. If you want to use more natural/unrefined sugars try things like molasses, maple syrup (the real stuff), honey and coconut sugar. I only use sugar when working with yeast because I don’t know if it can feed off of artificial sugar. I love use sing natural sugars for substitutes and have been doing it for years. I’m also not saying I don’t have chocolate bars in my pantry as I speak. As a nutrition student I can say sugar is a widely misunderstood topic among society.
went vegan / no added sugar this week - maple syrup, banana and cacao powder, oats, berries and vanilla is a yum breakfast / in the oven for dessert ( could also use dates instead of maple) also date syrup + cacao powder is an easy 2 second Nutella hack
I just love you so much. This was awesome sharing how all that work and restriction didn't actually change anything! 😍
I think 10 days is not enough to feel any difference but I also think there are good things happening in your body without you noticing it :)
If you did want some kind of a sweetness in bars or homemade treats you could try dates, date syrup or health food products that contain dates like snacking bars. Usually found at health food shops. In Australia I've found some delicious products made with wholesome ingredients and things that are usually sweetened with sugar (like snacking bars, breads, slices & biscuits/cookies, cakes, and even smoothies or homemade caramel sauce) are made with dates. But I do love your commitment to zero sugar & sweeteners and that this video shows that sugar is basically everywhere and in almost everything these days.
grace's reaction to savoury foods having sugar in it is my reaction whenever i find out a sweet recipe has salt in it lmao
Ive been sugar free for years for health reasons.
Which naturally means i have to make everything from scratch, cant eat out, cant eat at other peoples homes, AND can only buy frozen or fresh veg/fruit because canned is done in sugar syrup. Most dried fruits have additives too. So if i need dried stuff i usually have to dehydrate it myself.
Add on i also cant have salt so finding things that are both sugar AND salt free only having lactose fructose & sodium (in their whole forms) aka fruit veg etc. Its extremely hard to find anything processed or convienient or even what youd consider a basic ingredient that hasnt been adulterated. Its honestly horrific how hard and often expensive it is to eat typical whole foods.
This turned into me growing as much as my own food as possible & preserving it myself for convenience and out of season otherwise i rarely can attain it and if i can its expensive af or you guessed it preserved with sugar and salt.
Whats worse is theres not even a reason to add sugar or salt. Its not necessary to the recipes savoury or not but its always added.
its so funny to me to watch people make such a song and dance over essentially living a small taste of my life.
Homegrown & homemade tastes amazing and is better for you anyway 😊
Would love to try Grace's home made soup. Bet it's such a comforting flavour and texture 😋🤗
You are so fun,enjoy your videos so much. I have been trying for months! to get on Keto diet but keep buying more and more sweet stuff🙄well done you!
There’s a great sugar free brand called Diablo stocked in most Holland and Barrett stores, they do cookies etc
When you said you were making emily's salmon bowl I was like ummmmm....but sugar. Seeing the realisation on your face after was brilliant! haha
If you freeze banana ( not overly ripe), then blend the bananas very smooth , it will taste like soft serve icecream. Surprisingly it doesn’t taste of banana
The texture is not banana like either. You will need to blend it for longer than you think…;)
I'm 100% addicted to sugar, and looking back I think it probably started when my mam would give me sugar sandwiches as a treat 😅 yep, white bread, buttered and sprinkled with caster sugar. 🙈
i love you grace!! thanks for cheering up so many gloomy days xxx
Shredded Wheat? Oats? Weetabix? Old-fashioned, sugar free cereals. And whoa!!!! added sugar to peanut butter?????!!!
Weetabix does have sugar but yes the other 2 are definitely sugar free if it's plain porridge oats and not the Oat So Simples etc
@@katyr2382 yeah I was going to say plain shredded wheat doesn't have sugar and the only sugar in plain oats would be natural I guess, if any.
This comes at the perfect time! I'm currently doing four weeks without sugar :D
Ohh how is it going?
Best of luck! Tbh you'll feel so much better afterwards
@@natashaj4113 Okay so far, the only thing I'm really missing is the social aspect (birthday cakes etc), but I cook many things myself with vegetables and natural ingredients so that works well. Sometimes though, when I walk by a bakery, I really want the four weeks to be over :D
@@katharina1398 thank you for answering 😌 good luck and glad it’s going well (I do hope you get something nice at the end!)
globulin is an inflammation marker, which could have been red before as you had been exposed to a cold bug, or perhaps the no refined sugar brought your general inflammation down a bit ?? also HOW did you get blood tests ?
Alas this one's going to trigger my latent ED so gotta pass...still love ya Grace xx
Same here.. gonna give this one a pass
@@GGGirl55 💕
Agreed - not one for me!
@@EmilySaysRed
yeppp this reminds me of my ed days-still love her tho
Seasonal idea…. You should try a video where you make a meal using a whole pumpkin, the seeds, guts and rind.
Yay! I’m first! Grace, you’re a delight.
from a health perspective, 10 days wont show you anything remarkable, it takes significantly longer for your body to detox, people say its about 21 days to break a habit/addiction, it took me just over a month to crack the sugar cravings i had when i went refined sugar free, everyone is different but 10 days is just scratching the surface on how much your body can change just from going refined sugar free. It would be interesting to see you go without foods that have ingredients in them that you cant read/dont know/chemically made.
Life's too short for sugar free 🙌🙌🙌 yasss queen!! Too true 💞🌈
WOW you did so well. You could see the pain in your eyes lol. So happy sugar is back in your life.
Grace pls can you give us the recipe for that bakes pesto rice dish you made near the end of the video? I guess you showed most of what you did, but I´d love an actual recipe and ratio of the stuff you put. It looked sooo good
your hair is litreally gorg
i had to live sugar free for 6 months bc of chronic gastritis issues and it was SO HARD 😭 i still limit my sugar intake but i am allowed some again and it is heaven. I just love pastries so much!
Grace sushi is not too difficult to make at home - you should do a video. Just takes a couple of attempts to get the rolling up with seaweed tight enough. Great video Grace. ❣️
“stone in the heelys” is iconic
I was just told to watch my added sugars for diabetes! And sugar alcohols do not agree with me. I try to mind my other "quick carbs" as well and the cravings are real. Thanks for this video!
Oooo interesting! Lollll. Hilarious failing within the first few seconds of the video 🤣😂💞 bless her.
This is how diabetics feel!
Also would love to see you try the paleo or Keto diet for a couple days. It’s even worse.
13:59, LOL. You are so precious Grack!❤️❤️❤️
Globulin is used by your liver to help clean your blood and fight infection, which either means your liver was toxic or you had an infection; probably the latter, since your liver enzymes were apparently normal.
This was sooo interesting! But truly, what is life without doughnut time doughnuts 😂
There are various lessons to be taken from this exercise...
Doing without sugar does have some health benefits. You seem to be the type of person who can eat plenty, sweets included, yet maintain a trim figure, so it perhaps makes less difference for you to do without sugar than it would for someone whose very life could depend upon reducing or eliminating their intake.
Given the ubiquitousness of sugar within our general diet in the UK, it is no wonder that you missed it so much and struggled to avoid it. What fascinates me especially is the pizza meal you went for on the last day: you speak as if you didn't notice the hidden sugars, but I'd be interested to know if your initial perception of the taste of those items was any different than normal. There are some who, having undertaken a sugar fast, find sugary foods and drinks overwhelmingly sweet upon returning to them post fast. Then again, such people tend to be those who have undertaken the fast for longer, perhaps with the motive of eliminating sugar permanently from their diets; they aren't expecting it and it is an intensely strong flavour to them if it passes their lips, so much so that they don't continue eating or drinking whatever it is that has triggered that sensation.
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall would probably note that your most successful moments during your sugar fast were those in which you ate whole foods, doing as little as possible to them. Only whole foods, presented in natural state without refinement or processing of any kind, will be devoid of all except natural sugars. Arguably, eating an apple is better than drinking the juice of dozens of apples, because you get the sugar coupled to the starch in the apple flesh, whereas the juice will hit you with more of the sugar but none of the starch. (Ah, the age-old problem of carbohydrates, which give us something we need and something we could do without...)
Re. 2:09 - there's one cereal that you can count on to be sugar-free. Unfortunately, it's oats, which at breakfast time are usually made into your Nemesis, a.k.a. porridge!
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I'm glad you came to the realization that you came to...Life truely is too short to live sugar free (if there isn't a medical reason for it)
I had to do this for a year when I was 11. At the time it was almost impossible to find diabetic friendly foods, but I must say it completed changed my world.
Obviously, being doctor ordered the health benefits were why I was forced to do it (imagine being a child and having no sugar! Couldn't even eat carrots because they have a high level of sugar compared to most other veg) but in general I do recall feeling just generally mentally stronger. The moment I was allowed to go back to a normal, non-restricted diet my weight gain was quite strong which was fine as I was a child but the lethargy definitely was the most obvious.
In the end, I no longer craved sweets and such as often and this has been a general pattern in my adult life, too.
Seems silly, but just cutting down on sugar is amazing for your health and even better for your mental efficacy. Fruit and veg have more than enough sugar in them such that you're not being overly restrictive of it in a n unhealthy way. Just recommend it strongly if you feel lethargic and are struggling with migraines.
PS. I see no issue with having desserts and sweets etc. I will have them when I crave them. Just wrth noting that BALANCE is important, especially if like me you had hypoglycemia or anything that cuold lead to serious health issues.