Sugar Free is my new way of life, it is not a diet as I make biscuits, cakes and slices using sugar free ingredients, and we all know you can't have cake on a diet, the sugar free guru's suggest using Dextrose in place of sugar when cooking your treats, and for things like Anzac biscuits you can use Rice Malt Syrup, these two products do not contain Fructose they do however contain Glucose which is not harmful to your body- unless you are diabetic, then adding too much Glucose will make your BGL (blood glucose levels) increase.
For my normal non-diabetic family I cook using Rice Malt Syrup, and for the sugar substitute I use Natvia, which is safe for me too, it doesn't have a bitter taste like other stevia products but it is natural and doesn't contain any harmful Fructose. Going sugar free is a long process made up of small steps, in the beginning of going sugar free you can still have diet drinks to wean yourself off sugary drinks, due to being a diabetic I have always avoided fruit juices and sugar sodas, and was never a lover of milk or milk drinks so flavoured milks were not on my list of things to quit, The first things I noticed when I quit all products containing sugar, was I wasn't hungry all the time, and I didn't crave something sweet, I started to actually like the taste of water (filtered of course) and was reaching for water over my once preferred "Saxby's Diet Ginger Beer" of course I was a big tea drinker, black with one Sugarine, which I found that Sugarine tablets was another addiction of mine, that I found harder to shake than giving up the sugar, I had been using an artificial sweetener in my tea and coffee since I was 15 and first started work. When I grew up at home I never drank tea or coffee, but when I started work at 15, I just did what everyone else did at morning tea and had a cup of tea and a cake, (that is what you get from being a sheep) anyway I was never a fan of sugar (white refined sugar) I didn't like the feel of the stuff on my teeth, so from the early age of 15 I would use a sweetener that was no bigger than an pin head called "Diamonds" you could only buy them from the chemist, by my early 20's they were off the market and I switched to Sugarine tablets, I have heard the horror stories of what these little tablets do to your body but I was addicted and didn't like the taste of tea without them, so I gave up sugar all 57 varieties but as Sugarine is not listed in the do not have list, I still had them. Cutting the sugar and not feeling hungry also helped with the portion control I was using to lose weight, and for more than 8 months I was diligent and lost weight every week, I have a habit of weighing myself daily on the Wii, which the experts frown upon, and say you shouldn't weigh yourself more than once a week and some even say don't weigh at all, but everyone is different and for me I like to keep a close eye on my weight it makes me feel more in control, and actually it is when I am not weighing myself that I tend to gain some weight, and it is very uplifting to lose a little each day even if it is only 100grams it all adds up. Have you heard the saying "raining on my parade"? this is how I felt when I was clouded by a persons negative energy, at this stage I had lost 17kilos and was feeling pretty good about myself only to be told "it will all come back" I still don't know why I let this persons negativity invade my thoughts, and slowly I found I was eating a little bit more, having the occasional biscuit with my cup of tea and trying out new recipes didn't help either, don't get me wrong I didn't start buying or eating sugar foods, I was still very much the "Sugar Nazi" getting closer to Christmas and having Terri home from Uni we were eating out more and I wasn't leaving as much on my plate as I once did, and the Wii was no longer my friend, actually I went long periods with out weighing myself and the weight creep had begun, I didn't want "Debbie Downers" prophet of doom to come true and gain all the weight back, so I went back to Julie to have another couple of hypnosis sessions to rid my mind of Negative Nancy's words, and before long I was back on track and losing the weight again. It was hard work trying to get back to where I wanted to be, when I first went to Julie back in 2013, she said to set a realistic goal for weight loss, and I did say I would be happy with 20 kilo loss, at the time this sounded like a lot of weight and being over 50, I heard and read how it is almost impossible to lose the weight after 40's my mother use to say it to me all the time, but I reached the 17 kilos in 8 months, if I hadn't of had the set back or mind snap whatever you call it, I may have made the 20 kilo marker sooner. During this time I had read another book by David Gillespie "Toxic Oil" wow this book is every bit as good as the Sweet Poison books, and answers a lot of the questions about healthy fats (butter, saturated fats and Coconut oil) and another piece of the puzzle of why when following the dietitians advice and eating low fat we get sicker, not only do nearly all processed foods contain sugar of some sort they contain oils (Vegetable, Palm and Canola oils) the oils that cause inflammation and are the real causes of heart attacks and strokes, so this makes me really angry as the Doctors and Dietitians telling us to be healthy and protect our hearts we need to eat "Margarine, not butter, Vegetable oil or Canola oil not Lard or Saturated fats, in fact everything we have been told for the last 30 years was wrong, and what makes this worse is that some are still sprouting the same bulshit today. My new dilemma now is... when I eat out I can make the healthier sugar free choices but what are they cooked in? for a long time I tried not the think about this too much as we didn't eat out every week, we did have an occasion where we would go out for lunch at the local hotel and I always enjoyed their chicken burger, which I would order with the sour dough bread and no sauce, I would even have a handful of chips as it was only once a week, right? but Andrew mentioned one week that they probably used margarine not butter to butter the roll and that was enough for me to not want to go out for lunch again. I have got to the stage that I want to feel good, I want to be medication free and I want to lose all the weight that I have gained in the last 20 years, I have achieved 2 of the 3 and I am well on my way to the third. I don't understand anyone that has the proof that the key to good health works but wont try it, if you need to be inspired there is enough information out there to inspire even the most pessimistic person. Next Post -Cholesterol is a Charade
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Christine
28/10/2015 23:15:35
Awesome stuff crusader
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michelle
26/1/2016 22:11:14
Your story is so inspirational Wendy and incredible
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Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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