Me sharing my experience of being sugar free. Including but not limited to recieps, daily meals, ins She stated that fructose was the ‘enemy’.
About Me | Trudy Jensen
Food, nutrition and health have always been an interest of mine. I'm well known among my family and friends for cooking and baking. I have been baking with my mum and my sister since before I could see over the kitchen counter. But, as you can image I have always been somewhat overweight, even as a kid. When I was 13 or 14 ish I developed an interest is what made us fat. None of the usual ‘diets’ really made sense to me but I tried a few of them now and then. I would lose weight and gain weight, feel health and feel horrible. At some point I came to the conclusion that if I just tried to eat whole foods that came from nature I would probably be healthy regardless of my weight, and that’s what I did… except for ‘treat’ foods. I couldn’t kick my chocolate addiction nor could I pass up a good blueberry and cream cheese muffin. The overpowering ‘need’ to have these foods was just too much for my willpower to cope with. So I got interesting in being sugar free after flicking thought a few pages of Sarah Wilson book ‘I quit sugar’ at the local bookshop. This confused me as fructose is the main sugar found in fruit. How could fruit be bad for us? Well in short it's not (read The F-word for more info on fructose). I also read about how fructose alters our appetite which renders willpower next to useless. This made sense to me (and made me feel better about the entire block of chocolate that I had just consumed)
I didn’t intend on starting my sugar-free diet for a few weeks but after doing some research on fructose I just couldn’t eat it any more. Thus the sugar free foodie was created. The idea is to eat anything that has less than 3-6g of sugar per 100g. There are a few exceptions to this rule. First is dairy product. The first 4.8g/100g of sugar in milk is lactose so any dairy product that has less then 7.8g of sugar is ok but try for no added sugar whatsoever if you can. The second is drinks. Basically no sugar should be consumed in drink form. So stick to water or milk. The reason for this is because even having a drink with 3g of sugar 100mls means that in a 250ml glass you have a total of 8-9g of sugar which is two teaspoons. It's creeps up on you really quickly when in liquid form.
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