Bye Bye Sugar

[laura_redcloud]

I've had to think a lot about what I'm eating lately, and it's consumed a huge amount of my brain. I'll put all the blahblah beneath a cut so you only have to read it if you care.

Comments

[callanan]

very interesting! I should probably cut out sugar as well, and if it turns out I have gestational diabetes (I keep assuming I'm going to get it even earlier than anyone ever gets it, but now is around the time when people actually get it) I guess I will have to (although probably not to this extreme degree? I hope?). I eat way, way, way too much sugar, but I've definitely discovered that fat is much healthier for me to eat than sugar, just because it's so satisfying and it's so hard to eat a lot of it! I think this was probably a difficult lesson for both of us to learn because 1) we formed our eating habits in the 90s when everyone was so excited about low-fat stuff and 2) we both come from families that are very excited about low-fat stuff (your family for more legit, specific medical reasons? but in both cases not helped by raising kids in the 90s.)

[laura_redcloud]

Yeah, and the 90s to now is sort of a record-topping time for lots of sugar in all kinds of processed food products, but in the 90s people weren't really talking about how bad it was for you yet. People were talking more about fat, especially saturated fat, which they're now saying is okay.

I still kind of can't believe what I ate in the 90s -- all the years of Entenmann's donuts, Coke, Celeste pizzas, Fruit Roll-ups, Chips Ahoy, chocolate Pop Tarts... Even in high school in the 00s, my admittedly immature lunches consisted of Life cereal, Yoplait, an apple, and Shark Bites. I thought of it as grains, dairy, fruit, and dessert, but now I think: sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar.

I hope your health stays good! But if you do have to cut sugar, it's not the end of the world. Fresh fruit, cheese, nuts, and milky chai make great snack and dessert alternatives.

[callanan]

It is true! I have often said that if I ate like 4 nuts per hour like half of my health problems would be permanently solved, and yet here I am with no nuts in my house.

[mamaredcloud]

We've just started the Mediterranean diet. The lesson there is that there are different kinds of fat, and some of them are good for you. Olive oil! Nuts! Fish!
We're also discovering the joy of fruit.