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This year I cut all added-sugar from my diet. I've seen huge reductions in depression, anxiety, and exhaustion.

manmal 7y ago
Same here. I also recently cut chips (generally trying to stay clear of Omega-6 heavy vegetable oils), and dairy. Noticed a lot of positive effects, and don't even gain weight if I cheat with a lot of sugar.
- bitL 7y ago
  Sugar + fat combo is known to be a killer, multiplying effects of each other wrt obesity.
esquire_900 7y ago
Did this 3 years ago, combining it with cutting out other obviously bad foods (fried stuff etc.) is like night and day. It's almost alarming how much better I feel in general now, and how bad I feel after eating anything from the "bad food list", both physically and mentally.
bitL 7y ago
Did you experience a week-month long increased depression after cutting sugar? That's quite common and one of the reasons why people can't do it at will. Sugar does some nice things to neurotransmitters.
- schaefer 7y ago
  My symptoms from sugar* had gotten worse than any perceived withdrawal. *Extreme fatigue, sometimes persisting through 12 hours of sleep.
  - bitL 7y ago
    Check candida or fungi infection; it's possible your gut microbiome has some deficiency as well. Also, you might be pre-diabetic.
zhte415 7y ago
I cut sugar, not that I have much of a sweet tooth, aside from a small juice in the morning after skipping. After only a month of no added sugar (not keto or atkins or similar as I like beans, good bread, oats, vegetables, but other than that no sugar added) when going for a lunch with a friend we shared a Coke, just a 330ml tin, between two. The lunch was nice, stewed chicken, mushrooms, broccoli, good conversation. When stepping outside, it felt like I'd had a full bottle of wine, just from that little amount of Coke. I got off the subway early and walked the next few stops to walk off the Coke. I take an annual medical and fortunately have no diabetes or anything similar, BMI22.X. My body, brain, simply had become unaccustomed to refined sugars, or was becoming re-accustomed very quickly for the other side of the kettle. It was an eye opening experience.

Same here. I also recently cut chips (generally trying to stay clear of Omega-6 heavy vegetable oils), and dairy. Noticed a lot of positive effects, and don't even gain weight if I cheat with a lot of sugar.

bitL 7y ago
Sugar + fat combo is known to be a killer, multiplying effects of each other wrt obesity.

esquire_900 7y ago

Did this 3 years ago, combining it with cutting out other obviously bad foods (fried stuff etc.) is like night and day. It's almost alarming how much better I feel in general now, and how bad I feel after eating anything from the "bad food list", both physically and mentally.

bitL 7y ago

Did you experience a week-month long increased depression after cutting sugar? That's quite common and one of the reasons why people can't do it at will. Sugar does some nice things to neurotransmitters.

schaefer 7y ago
My symptoms from sugar* had gotten worse than any perceived withdrawal. *Extreme fatigue, sometimes persisting through 12 hours of sleep.
- bitL 7y ago
  Check candida or fungi infection; it's possible your gut microbiome has some deficiency as well. Also, you might be pre-diabetic.

zhte415 7y ago

I cut sugar, not that I have much of a sweet tooth, aside from a small juice in the morning after skipping. After only a month of no added sugar (not keto or atkins or similar as I like beans, good bread, oats, vegetables, but other than that no sugar added) when going for a lunch with a friend we shared a Coke, just a 330ml tin, between two. The lunch was nice, stewed chicken, mushrooms, broccoli, good conversation. When stepping outside, it felt like I'd had a full bottle of wine, just from that little amount of Coke. I got off the subway early and walked the next few stops to walk off the Coke. I take an annual medical and fortunately have no diabetes or anything similar, BMI22.X. My body, brain, simply had become unaccustomed to refined sugars, or was becoming re-accustomed very quickly for the other side of the kettle. It was an eye opening experience.