I read an interesting article today which isn’t really anything to do with quick diet loss but made me think why I find it so hard to give up sugar.

Our bodies are programmed to love anything sweet. We have a gene for sweets (great) and a receptor for sweet tasting things that is unique to human beings. That explains why I just cannot drink my coffee with no sugar.

Babies are born with a taste for sweet products and although many people state sugar makes children hyperactive it apparently calms the brain due to its effect on the serotonin levels.

We do, however, according to the study consume to much of a good thing with Americans now eating more than 23 teaspoons of added sugar daily. When added up this equates to 400 calories a day.

How to try and moderate your intake of sugar

The problem with sugar is it has a tendency to lurk in various food products.
Read labels and pick products with the least amount of sugar ( four grams equals one teaspoon)
Check labels for sugar aliases.  Some of the common ones are dextrose,sucrose and high fructose.
Sugar can also be in other foods you wouldn’t expect like salad dressings, and certain types of meat.
Try not to drink to many soft drinks – these are loaded with sugar.
Most of all if you do have a really sweet tooth don’t try and cut it out completely just try and reduce your daily intake.

Thats what I plan to do because I have tried to cut it out before and failed miserably.

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Another crazy diet for you to have a giggle at. I wouldn’t give this one a go if I were you unless you particularly like the taste of commercial baby food. No wonder most babies spit it out! Poor things can’t even answer back.

The rules are as follows for a quick fix diet.  Prepare yourself for extreme hunger, temper tantrums and downright misery.

Replace two of your three meals a day with, yes you’ve got it “baby food” oh how yummy.
Baby food always reminds me of vomit, I think its the diced carrot affair going on that really doesn’t do it for me.

The point that has really got me thinking is that there is only about three mouthfuls in the average baby food jar and unless you want to pass out from hunger and end up admitted to your local hospital. (Imagine explaining to the staff what you’d been eating!)  you would have to really shovel some of that stuff away.

If you really wanted to give this a go you could always replace your snacks of crips, chocolate and milk shakes with a jar of “home-made hotpot”.  I suppose the benefit would be no washing up cause you could just eat it out of the jar and mealtimes would be over in less than a minute.

If anyone has tried this please let me know because I am intrigued.

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