SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s a subject you have heard me bang on about a few times. So i’m not going to break the habit, let’s look at it again!

Eating well shouldn’t be that hard, you know if you eat an apple, a piece of chicken, a piece of fish, brown rice, a potato, a carrot, porridge etc, you know you are eating well and you’re not having any refined sugar. Are you still confused about eating well or do you need more education about eating well? I think all of us need to educate ourselves from time to time, and remind ourselves of what can really be destroying our fat loss plans!

Tracking sugar is the hardest thing for most people, and food companies go out of their way to hide it in your foods. Let’s face it, sugar tastes nice and can be addictive, and will sometimes totally put you off eating plainer, natural foods full of nutrients. You will naturally crave more of the sugary foods, so the food company will win all round, as they know you will come back every time for their sugar-laced products, and the products range from everything, from so called healther cereals, to sliced ham’s, to sugary drinks dressed up as orange juice.

So how do these food companies hide their sugar in the foods they produce? They have to list the ingredients that are the biggest portions of the product first, and work the way down to the smallest additive.  Sugar in its plainest form will be sugar or sucrose. Then it gets pretty sly on the sugary ingredients. Fructose, corn syrup, glucose, honey, cane juice crystals, rice syrup, molassses, caramel, cane sugar, fruit juice, inverted sugar are just a few of the ways addictive calories are added to your food and derail your diet, and your body’s performance!

Most cereals in the supermarket are great examples of these additives, and many of the most popular ones have some or all of these ingredients. They create your cravings for sugar, and this will transfer to other food groups too, before you know you will be ingesting an awful lot of needless sugar in just one day. Have you ever got used to eating like this and then you’ve been on it so long that you accuse anyone who eats plainer, more wholesesome foods as “boring”, i know i’ve been accused of that a few times!! Eating all of these sugary foods every day doesn’t make you the life and soul of the party either!! It’s time to get all this rubbish out of your life and right now if you want to make some serious progress and quickly, let’s sort it out now!!

The more sugar you take in, the more you’re going to want more. The average person in this country and the US takes in 20 to 25 teaspoons of sugar per day, directly or indirectly. This alone will add up to 40 pounds of body fat increase per year, so up to you?

The sooner you make your commitment to eating more natural foods the better, if it’s man made, you know it’s nearly always a disaster for your body! Think about it and let’s make it happen this week.

Keri

9 Replies to “SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

  1. Hi Guys, Hope ur all ok, I came off the rails yesterday, big time, really pigged out, BORED, BORED, BORED, cant even walk, my hubby fell and cracked his head yesterday, so I did’nt go for my walk. Back on it 2day, feel soooooooooooooo bad, totally not worth it. I think I have a SUGAR HANGOVER today, my head is killing me. Feel like CRAP, will do indoor workout when my headache goes, cant jump about at mo. I am soooo disappointed with myself, I’d lost 3 inches on the waist

  2. you got it in one! everyone feels like that after doing so well, then going mad for a day! Get back on it today and feel instantly better, and drink plenty of water! 3 inches off the waist is fantastic, dont knock yourself and get back to basics and the rewards will keep coming!

  3. 3″s is cracking Jeany 😉 can understand your going off the rails my eating plan is all over the place with this bloody weather.Not going to mad but it has been better a lot better.
    Seems to me that if something unexpectedly turns up my plans go out the window.Main meals have been fine ie fish and boiled veg,chicken casseroles or just stews with just vegs in them.Its the odd biscuit or what ever’s to hand when i’m cooking the stuff i struggle with……..

  4. you are right in your support for jean, she has done great so far, and one bad day doesnt matter!

  5. Hi Cyril, thanx 4 ur support, back today, done a 92min walk, 8,122 steps, 243 cals, 4.87 km. It was very slippery, my hubby dropped me off at the old pump house and I walked through the country park back onto the cycle track, it was sooo beautiful, nearly slipped once and jarred my left knee saving myself, swollen now but ok. I know now why Keri keeps repeating himself, is beginning to sink in. I am thinking it will take 6 months of my life to get back to where I was, just have to b patient, if only I could go to sleep and wake up 9st 4lbs. Still Easter will soon b here and I dont want to b like this, so head down and keep goin. I’m the same as you Cyril, with routine I mean, like to stick to a routine, feel more in control. Will try and do another walk later, got ice on my knee at mo, so will c. Want to b ok 4 Keri’s challenge. Take care out there. Jeanyx

  6. If most of these cereals are laced with sugar what would you suggest for breakfast? Please don’t say 1 slice of dry toast with 4 beans because I am a huge eater in the morning. Porridge oats? Something like this? If you are weight training too would putting some protein into it be a good idea or not?

  7. porridge with water/skimmed milk and a protein shake would be awesome, try to include protein in most meals, and is the secret to keeping muscle mass and boosting your metabolism!

  8. I’m going to give this a go in the morning now. I better slam my Coco Pops and Ricicles in the bin then! Pronto! Would you suggest adding some protein powder into the actual porridge?

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