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My family has adopted a single rule. Never buy anything with sugar on the ingredients list. I am of course aware that a little fructose would probably not kill
by nasmorn 14y ago
My family has adopted a single rule. Never buy anything with sugar on the ingredients list. I am of course aware that a little fructose would probably not kill me not even long term, but the biggest problem in dieting IMO is keeping track of your inputs. This rule alone rules out enough crap to make us eat reasonably healthy as the correlation of added sugar to crap food is pretty high. So I understand why simple rules are important I just believe they don't have to be, never eat any carbs.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoThat's a great rule. I'm going to have to think about and talk with my family about how to implement that in a way that isn't me being a tyrant and them wanting to rebel (yay for the early teens :). Oh, and I agree on the "don't have to be, never eat any carbs". I've posted elsewhere that I'm a literal food addict. I have to put a lot of structure in place or I go off the deep end. For me, I have best control when I say "no carbs, period", but that is my personal diet (err, that I try to stick to, anyway :). I think a more reasonable world might be "try very hard to avoid simple carbs". If you aren't lucky enough to not have to care (whatever combination of genes and lifestyle causes that, I curse thee ;), then finding the combination that works for you is critical. I found it though a lot of experimentation (including a major experiment of re-working my body's plumbing because so many previous experiments had failed).