Sugar...

Apologies to peonygran!

Oh dear, so much denial! I have given up so much over the years, cigarettes, booze, sex and now sugar!! I have such a sweet tooth and just love the odd cheesecake slice/chocolate cake but need to lose about 10 lbs in weight - help!

You don't have to give up any kind of food; just have smaller helpings of everything.

In other words you eat cake?

Isn't there a saying that goes something like 'you can't have your cake and.......'?

Beattie just count calories. If you eat something with 550 cals in it, put that in the total for the day. #lettucefordin

HAHA. A bit drastic, Jinglebellfrocks. Hope you're better now.

Seriously though, I agree that it's a matter of taking in less calories than you burn. It's definitely not easy. Pennygran, if you can get down to the gym for a few days' a week, and do a real workout, you'll go a long way to moving those excess pounds. Even WW and Slimming World say you can have the odd piece of chock or low-cal biscuit as long as you keep to the minimum. Good luck on the weight loss. You can do it!

Download the Myfitnesspal app. It lets you log all your food and exercise, so you can have whatever you want, as long as you stay within your limit.

Sugar is the worst of all evils.It sits in the stomach rotting and fermenting.And yet is do difficult yo give uo .As it is 8 times more additive than cocaine.

Rubbish!

Sorry. But it is.

Sorry to be pedantic but the whole point about sugar is that it *doesn't " sit in the stomach for long. It is absorbed very quickly into the blood stream causing sudden spikes in blood glucose levels.

Not good!

have some schools broken up already?

I like a good sugar rush. .

Blame those marmalade sandwiches.........

Don't wish to be personal but are you perhaps related to..........

Paddington?

I am blessed in not having a very sweet tooth. I do like cake though but not butter cream icing or those heavy cream cakes.

A fruit cake appears to be a lot less sweet than a Victoria sponge but I doubt if it is.

My husband went "carb" free in February, and he has lost about 2 and a half stone, I decided to follow suit in May and must say it is going terrifically well.

I no longer get dips and "highs" from the sugar, I am far less lethargic during the day, I sleep soooo much better, I had had a cough for quite some time and did some google research to see if there was a connection between the coughing and sugar and was surprised to see that there was. So, so much better all round I would say. I do not get hunger pangs, or cravings for anything, thought I would seriously miss bread/potatoes/pasta, but not one little tiny bit.

I would say go for it, nothing to lose, except some unwanted weight.

Scottish schools broke up on 26 June, anya.

I've just eaten a marmalade sandwich, mainly for the homemade bread which is awesome. I also like butter (unsalted). And at the moment I'm adding a dollop of extra thick cream, as well as the usual full fat milk, to my breakfast cereal, along with a few strawberries. Yum.

off piste, but I can't believe GCs have not yet broken up for hols! I used to love it when Leicester had the 'textile fortnight' = first 2 weeks in July. Much cheaper and we met lots of Scots wherever we went, and Swiss- who also break up at same time.

Unsalted butter is grease.

Good grease. I'm probably really an eskimo though I've never, to my knowledge, eaten raw whale blubber. [stickyouttongue] @ jingl.

Newbies, don't worry. This is a long-running disagreement and is perfectly firendly

Excellent book on the subject, finally reprinted I gather after years of sugar company lobbying not to, called 'Pure White and Deadly'. It puts you off eating sugar, read it everybody! Carol

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