Tough choice. Lame article.

I ran across a book my some guy about how sugars can actually sap your energy, and since I used to pretty much pass out in the late afternoons, I decided to give up all sugars I could think of. I'm sure the author's regiment made more sense, but I didn't want to buy the book and I figured sugars are not, generally speaking, good for the body. Also, I remember reading about the approval process of aspartame, and I decided to chuck them all.

Three weeks. So far so good. I am actually awake and mildly productive in the late afternoons. (It's 3:30pm, but it's arguable that what I'm doing here is productive.) I sleep better, if you agree with me that the definition of a good sleep is dreamless oblivion. I have the added benefit of losing a little bit of weight. That was not part of my master plan, but I'm happy about it.

I don't have cravings really. I did see a set of chocolate tools in the Sears store yesterday that gave me instant cravings. I think there was a hammer, a pair of plyers, and a screwdriver. I could have eaten that tool set right then and there, but I don't think this visceral desire was exclusively a sugar issue.

Sounds like you're learning what most of us serial (not cereal) dieters already know -- you can suppress the cravings for a while, but you can't make them go away for ever. If you don't have a weight problem, count yourself lucky, since 95% of the people who do lose weight on a diet end up putting it back on again. And it doesn't really matter which diet...

The weight loss idea of starving people and dumping them among their cravings is as wrong as it leads nowhere. Your body knows weight regulation through hormones.

If you allow yourself animal fats such a dairy with eggs full fat cream butter fat cheese as much as you like your body will wake up and allow the hormones to do what they have been meant to do. It can be done only in cutting down carbohydrates very substantially and understanding for instance that fruits are little more than sugars even as fresh.

You also should eat fat fish such as sardines salmon (wild not cultured) shell fish and fat meat. Not processed meat such as sausages of any kind.

It is getting down to the very basics of life and you will never be hungry again. You do not count calories and no need for exercising either. You will lose cravings and never be hungry again. Your skin will be wonderful, my asthma for instance was substantially better and I lost all wishes for anything sweet let alone wine.

You body is free at last.

I have to say, I don't agree with your statement that you won't need exercise. Nothing is ever static: either it is growing or decaying. If the body isn't trained and forced to adapt, or grow, it will decay. That will lead to many health problems, and it doesn't feel good.

Also, what is your definition of cutting back carbs substantially? The way I eat, I have six or seven servings of grains a day, with a serving being only one slice of bread or a half cup of rice/prepared cereal. I haven't been hungry, and it has kept me from craving sweet food.

I do agree with you on the cheese and butter thing, though. I try to keep my fat intake under control, but our ancestors ate cheese and full fat milk because that was what was available to them.

Thank you for posting!

-Artimedorus

if by boring you mean missing all the additives, msg, salt and fat of american commercial junk food then I guess you are correct. On the other hand, I have fantastic diet low in sugar and fat based on a lot of eastern cooking that is high in vegtables and low in meat (and easily vegetarian if you want). I am talking Italian and Spanish and Thai and Indian and Vietnamese cooking. Very healthy, very flavorful, and anything but boring. You don't even have to buy a cookbook (although I recommend buying several) as you find many recipes on the web: just Google it.