Saturday candy?

[bend_gules]

Thanks to several months of enforced inactivity, I'm feeling uncomfortably round, and had an unpleasant encounter with a measuring tape recently.

So I'm resolved to get out of the office at lunchtime more often for walks - daily isn't too often - and I'm considering drastic measures, for me: Saturday CandyI encountered this at Crown this year in

Comments

[my_stitching]

Yes. Basically the only difference between different types of sugars (dextrose, sucrose, fructose, etc) is either the shape or the number of carbons and in some cases whether they form chains. Some are absorbed directly and others are broken down into the simplest form which is most useful for our bodies to absorb: glucose aka dextrose. So using dextrose rather than sucrose does nothing.

Good luck with candy saturdays. It sounds like a good concept!

[my_stitching]

With the comments below differing from what I had remembered studying in anatomy and physiology, I went back and looked. All sugars break down into glucose (dextrose), fructose and galactose. There are others but these are the common ones. They all have the same chemical composition but differ slightly in how they are ordered (isomers). All three of these are absorbed directly into the system via the small intestine. All of the more complex sugars break down into these. Sucrose is glucose and fructose, for example. There are three things which set fructose apart from the others. One bad thing, one good thing and one neutral thing

[edith_hedingham]

I find that it has to be all or nothing. Biscuits disappear in our house so best not to have any!

[kareina]

The rule that works for me is "no processed sugar save for in home-baked goods". If I want a cookie, I have to bake it, and I tend to use way less sugar than traditional recipes call for. As a result my diet is less than 1% sugar by volume most months, though it sometimes gets as high as 3% "junk" over the winter holiday season.

[xrian]

I decided a while back to limit my daytime sweet-snacking to a particular flavor of hard candy. I tell myself I can have two a day and am able to stick to that maybe 28 days out of the month -- on a very stressful day I may eat five or six, but considering they are only about 20 calories each and last a long time (being hard candy), they do a pretty good job of satisfying the sugar urge. And because they're always the same flavor they become really boring after the first two, which deters me from eating more

[aryanhwy]

If you like cookies (sorry, biscuits are a whole different thing :)) at work -- and are often at SCA events where there isn't candy, per se, on the weekends, anyway, why not consider something like "candy on Tuesdays", with an exception for SCA desserts? Might make it an easier rule to follow.

I still agree with you that Candy on Saturdays is eminently sensible, and while we aren't there yet with Gwen, I'm seriously thinking of doing it when she's older.