I've been on a sugar detox since May and I ate added sugar in a cherry Coke (natural sugars in fruits like sucrose and in milk like lactose are natural sugars) today since I decided one cheat day every Sunday and Monday would be enough but I feel like I'm high as fuck on the most potent speed ever, sugar really hits you like crazy. My coach told me to stop eating any processed food and food products that have preservatives and to only eat whole foods until I deem myself ready for tryouts.
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I mostly do that just naturally. That said, I do consume lactose through dairy, and I won't make a fuss about using honey ham as a cooking ingredient. I'll also eat some fresh fruits here and there with fructose (but also fiber). Yet I take my coffee black, my tea unsweetened, don't drink any sodas or fruit juice, and never add any sugar to my cooking.
The major exception for me is alcohol. I do drink a bit although not cocktails so much as whiskey or wine.
I was also a weird kid in that the only sweet cravings I ever had were drinks. So I did like fruit juice and sodas a lot as a kid. But I didn't like candy and chocolate bars and such very much. If I had the choice between those or something like beef jerky or pistachios, I'd want the latter.
Also never liked sweet foods like pancakes or waffles or donuts or cakes. I always favored the savory, and especially for food... and I've probably ordered dessert less than 100 times in my entire life.
Yes, I do not put sugar on cereal and do not drink coffee. i try to limit sugar to one Pepsi a day. I also stopped dumping salt all over everything as well.
Is sugar in my coffee 3-4 times a week okay? I think I gotta cut down the chocolate cake and thank goodness that donuts are expensive so I don't get to eat them. I love donuts like crazy but haven't had them since 2 years. Why AREN'T these foods banned? How come world is selling cold drinks, processed cakes, foods and etc?
It isn't that major of a health risk otherwise we'd all be winding up dead en masse. These foods aren't banned because of one thing... our increased standards of living and consumerism. If you look at this through a Darwinist perspective man is an animal as well and the more we try to fight nature the more we stray closer to our own empending doom. I personally am doing this because of three main reasons...
1. I have hockey tryouts at a provincial level.
2. I want to experience what my body is capable of.
3. We are going to have fitness exams which we have annually exclusively for males and if we perform exceptionally we can get conscripted into the armed forces.
Sure- but then the next nutritional bogeyman would come along. I've seen this happen too many times. I think my favorite is the perennial "processed foods" when that refers to such hideously unnatural things as WASHING it.
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