Try removing sugar from your diet, like sucrose sugar. It is frighteningly hard unless you’re cooking everything you eat yourself.
I’ve had times where I start liking something a lot which I normally wouldn’t suspect of having lots of sugar to realise “wait a minute, I like this because they’ve added lots of sugar don’t I!?” … and I check and yea there’s way too much.
Yes, I’ve been cutting out sugar (or trying to at least) and I’m amazed at how many products include it that you wouldn’t expect to have it. I do love to cook so I do a lot of things from scratch, but somethings are just too cost prohibitive to make regularly/sometimes we just get too busy and need some premade elements for a dish, etc. and sugar is just overloaded into products it isn’t even necessary in. It’s so frustrating.
I found frozen veggies and a cheap protein like ground beef I can buy in bulk is quite affordable. Also now that eggs have gone down we always have a lot of that. Not having kids though we can afford shrimp and steak and pork etc.
I mean I did that for almost two years but it took one Thanksgiving where people didn’t follow my diet and it was ruined. Sugar and carbs are addictive.
I cook my own food and didn’t even miss baked good bread pasta rice etc (as they all cause me varying degrees of symptoms including tachycardia and rashes and migraines etc) until I ate stuffing and a few almond cookies.
Apart from willpower though I didn’t have any issues sticking to a now sugar diet including fruits and processed foods.
Try removing sugar from your diet, like sucrose sugar. It is frighteningly hard unless you’re cooking everything you eat yourself.
I’ve had times where I start liking something a lot which I normally wouldn’t suspect of having lots of sugar to realise “wait a minute, I like this because they’ve added lots of sugar don’t I!?” … and I check and yea there’s way too much.
It’s a problem.
Yes, I’ve been cutting out sugar (or trying to at least) and I’m amazed at how many products include it that you wouldn’t expect to have it. I do love to cook so I do a lot of things from scratch, but somethings are just too cost prohibitive to make regularly/sometimes we just get too busy and need some premade elements for a dish, etc. and sugar is just overloaded into products it isn’t even necessary in. It’s so frustrating.
I found frozen veggies and a cheap protein like ground beef I can buy in bulk is quite affordable. Also now that eggs have gone down we always have a lot of that. Not having kids though we can afford shrimp and steak and pork etc.
I mean I did that for almost two years but it took one Thanksgiving where people didn’t follow my diet and it was ruined. Sugar and carbs are addictive. I cook my own food and didn’t even miss baked good bread pasta rice etc (as they all cause me varying degrees of symptoms including tachycardia and rashes and migraines etc) until I ate stuffing and a few almond cookies. Apart from willpower though I didn’t have any issues sticking to a now sugar diet including fruits and processed foods.