Mon, Jun-09-03, 08:14
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Posts: 50
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Plan: Sugar Busters
Stats: 255/204/140
BF:
Progress: 44%
Location: Connecticut
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This is an interesting question.
I have read all these books:
POTATOES NOT PROZAC
Sugar Busters
The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program
Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar in Any Diet
Sugar Blues
Sugar Busters for Kids
The Carbohydrate, Fiber, and Sugar Counter
I am currently reading Eat Yourself Slim
by Michel Montignac,
I have been following Sugar Busters since last July. I have lost a total of 32 pounds, gone from a size 24 to a 16/14 all without exercise or starving.
I have recently started going to the gym because I want to.
Anyway, all the books I've read about sugar have one thing in common. They talk about sugar in natural foods like fruit, is ok. They all mostly refer back to the days when food was natural and not processed.
Sugar Blues is a great book to see how the procession of sugar spread across the "civilized" world and how peoples health has gone down the tubes since.
As far as no sugar sweeteners are concerned, if you can live without them that is really awesome. But for most of us we want, or need them. I use Agave which is a zero carb no sugar natural cactus sweetener.
I use it in my coffee and to bake with. Well actually I give it to my mother-in-law so she can bake things for me.
I don't believe everything I read. I read it, if it sounds correct I'll try it. If I find I'm not losing or feel crappy doing it I figure it's not right for me and stop doing it.
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