Health Update

[klingonguy]

It's been more than two weeks since I swore off bread and drastically reduced my intake of flour and sugar. And, despite the lingering effects of some qep'a' con crud, I feel amazingly good. Empowered, actually

Comments

[klingonguy]

I generally don't like fizzy water. In fact, I actively dislike it.

Nothing is ever easy, eh?

[klingonguy]

Following the problem from my reply to the previous comment, I don't like tea. In fact, I actively dislike it.

Otherwise this would have been a great (and inexpensive) solution.

[threeoutside]

I was surprised how easy it was to quit drinking pop. I used to drink two or three cans of diet pop a day. I started out by putting just a teaspoon of frozen fruit juice in a big glass of ice water (that helps discourage the cats from drinking it, too) but mostly now it's just ice water for me.

And I did notice that my craving for sweets dropped off, too. I think the researchers are right, at least in my case. Artificial sweetener (aspartame) tastes sweet in the mouth, setting up the rest of the body to think, oh boy, sugar's coming - and then it doesn't. Triggering sugar cravings. *shrug* FWIW.

[klingonguy]

I know other people who expressed a similar triggering effect from aspartame. I don't get that.

And I drink much vaster quantities of diet soda (typically between one and four liters of the stuff each day!).

Over the last couple weeks it seems that what triggers my sweet tooth is sweets. Since I haven't had any (except for making the mistake of letting Denny's spike my diet coke with vanilla syrup last Friday), I haven't particularly missed the sugary foods that I'd normally eat. Weird, huh?

[threeoutside]

Maybe your body knows what's good for it. ;^>

[jjschwabach]

I found, when I gave up HFCS, that after a week or so, I preferred water to any substitute. I think if you go the water route, it will not take long to get completely used to it.

[accordingto_ada]

I am eating low carb to see if it helps my chronic tendinitis. So I will be joining you in eschewing sugar and flour at NASFiC.