How to eliminate sugar from your diet?

[Anonymous]

best way to avoid sugar.. don't eat processed food. Sugar is added to just about anything and everything that comes in a package/is processed.

[Anonymous]

Don't drink your calories....no juice/soda/coffee drinks

I drink water, coffee with splenda and wine lol, also seltzer. Once in awhile I get a cocktail while out but thats it. I also don't eat dessert

[Anonymous]

I've cut out all alcohol so that i can eat dessert

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've cut out all alcohol so that i can eat dessert

I'd rather have alcohol.

[Anonymous]

Most processed food contains sugar. Stop eating it. No pasta, limit fruit, etc.

[Anonymous]

To completely eliminate added sugar, eat food that remembers where it came from: whole fruits, vegetables, meat. If you purchase or regularly use something processed, look at the label, find a brand with none of the ingredients on the nice list PP posted, and stock your pantry with that brand.

Figure out where your sugar weaknesses are and make substitutions: drink sugary things regularly? become an afficionado of non sugar drinks; dessert? look for creative recipes with fruits, nuts, eggs, low sugar chocolate.

[Anonymous]

BTW, processed carbs (flour, bread, noodles) are generally just as bad as sugar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was reading the label on my kidney bean pasta last night and 10g of sugar! My Wegmans pasta sauce 15 g!

So sneaky!

Honest question -- do most people like sweet pasta sauce? Sweet beans?

There are a lot of pasta sauces I can't eat because of how sweet they are. When I eat with my relatives, they serve very sweet baked beans, sweet homemade mac and cheese, and lots of other prepared food that they seem to add a lot of sugar to.

I even notice this at restaurants -- some perfectly good entree will be ruined by added sweetness. Why? It's so gross.

[Anonymous]

You may have a different experience, but my body responds very differently to actual sugar (granulated/brown/powdered) as opposed to pure maple syrup or honey. I find that if I avoid sugar and use syrup or honey sparingly as a sweetener I am in much better shape.