>>Cereal and toast means a blood sugar crash a few hours later, no thanks!
Well, you could try eating like an adult and see how it works for you.
I have a protein shake every morning. Milk, banana, peanut butter and chocolate protein powder. Works great: it's filling, delicious, healthy and it doesn't cause a sugar crash.
>Small bowl of granola (not the shitty sugary kind): stupid huge spike.
Well, you're absolutely right about that. Granola, and indeed all cereals, are really not healthy at all. Salads also won't satiate you (which drastically increases chances of someone "cheating") and usually get drenched in dressings by most.
Though blood sugar is not the prime indicator of health, it can be wearing on the body to have it spiking multiple times a day, which is why I practice IF.
> The amount of sugar in basically all breakfast foods is just insane, then people actually pour even more sugar on top. I don't understand how people can eat this type of food to begin with, but especially first thing in the morning.
Did you try adding more sugar ? That usually does the trick if the food is too bland. Rule of thumb when I was a kid was that the spoon should stand upward on its own once you have finished. /s
> you are getting 5-6 times the sugar you would normally get eating the fruit whole
So what? If I'm hungry and need the calories provided by the sugar, what's the problem?
> Eating a lot of high glycemic foods leads to insulin resistance
Sugar has lower glycemic index than starch. And in any case I don't really buy the whole idea that eating carbs causes insulin resistance. Being fat causes insulin resistance. If you're not fat, sugar is fine.
> Sugar is readily accessible fuel, that's why you crave it. Complex carbohydrates and starches are the problem, not sugar. If you get a crash that's because you need to eat regularly, just like all the other primates. Fasting is an emergency state, not a normal one.
If you get a 'crash', it's because your blood sugar level is too low. One way that this can happen is by eating refined (simple) carbs - aka sugars. The release of sugar into the blood-stream is fast, leading to a large release of insulin from the pancreas, which then drives the sugar in the blood stream into the cells, giving a consequent drop in blood sugar. Unless you then replenish the blood sugar you get a 'crash'. Far better is to eat in a way that doesn't give you that spike of blood sugar, so that the insulin response is less.
> Have you ever felt tired and out of whack after eating fruit?
No, not that I can think of specifically related to fruit.
> Have you seen the size of people on a fruitarian diet? (Spoiler, they loose a dangerous amount of weight).
Not sure what an anecdotal observation of people on a weird diet proves.
> You don't get fat by eating fruit
No-one said you did. And (spoiler) not all sugars are equal. Eating a piece of fruit is not the same as eating a piece of candy, just because they both contain (some wort of) sugar.
> you get fat by eating lots of pasta and bread.
(This is a weird and partly incorrect statement, but...) Who said this was about getting fat? There can be negative health effects from what someone eats, aside from weight gain.
> I challenge you to gain weight on a diet of steak and orange juice.
Not sure what this weird unbalanced diet would prove either?
>Sugar is the biggest threat to weight loss because the calories from sugar go straight to fat, and the sudden increase in high glycemic index input triggers an insulin response, which makes you feel like a yo-yo merry-go-round of energy/despair.
I've had problems with fatigue/low energy for a while now - I always crash in the afternoon around 2pm, roughly three hours after eating my first meal of the day. After doing some research I decided to cut out sugar and flour in the morning, and the results have been dramatic. My problems with energy and fatigue were getting so bad that I was starting to think I had a chronic illness - nope, just crashing from insulin every day!
> Hate to break it to you but fruit is not far removed from sugar.
Hate to break it to you, but you don’t need a lot.
Also my point is that you can incrementally improve your diet. Oatmeal and fruit is way better than most packaged cereal. If you know of something better still why not share it, so people can make another incremental improvement?
> How on Earth is possible to design a high-calorie food (this is a promice of MacDo) which makes you feel hungry shortly? For me it works like a regular food.
Sugars and refined flour does this.
The foods spike your blood sugar and then cause a crash.
> everything has sugar in it, and you have to absolutely avoid it, not just sweets, fruits, juices, I'd even tell you diet drinks and artificial sweeteners too. That means no ketchup, sauces, breads, and most processed and store bought foods.
Realistically how do you avoid sugar like this? Soft drinks, candy, and other artificial stuff are easy enough to avoid, but most bread? Fruits? What are you supposed to eat and how are you supposed to obtain it without involving sugar? Are you suggesting people eat pure meat and lettuce and eggs for 6-8 weeks? It would be so much more helpful to give some examples of sample diets people could actually follow.
(What specifically are you saying needs to be avoided btw? Sucrose and fructose and artificial sweeteners I assume, but not glucose?)
Weird advice considering your body literally turns food into sugar anyway. I suspect folks saying that sort of thing are quacks or using sugar as a scapegoat for excess calories.
Thing is, if by 'they' you mean processed foods, you are basically right.
A little bit of sugar that you add to a coffee or whatever won't kill you. The problem is that just about all the processed food available has been spiked with sugar.
> I mean as long as you avoid the ones that have a lot of sugar added,
This is virtually all of them, though. I think it’s generally not as bad as it used to be, but it’s still refined sugar for breakfast and really not ideal.
Makes sense that this diet wouldn't work for you - but I think using this argument is sort of like arguing that peanuts are unhealthy because some people are allergic to them.
Fun Fact: You can let your potatoes cool down, and then re-heat them, to significantly lower the glycemic impact.
Well, you could try eating like an adult and see how it works for you.
I have a protein shake every morning. Milk, banana, peanut butter and chocolate protein powder. Works great: it's filling, delicious, healthy and it doesn't cause a sugar crash.
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