I don’t drink wine, but I’m still going to by the book!
My favourite author from 2017, Louise Jensen – who wrote The Sister, The Gift and The Surrogate – also likes to maintain a mostly sugar-free diet.
Now how relevant is that to me right now?!
With mother’s diabetes slightly more under control with her four insulin injections per day, and her life saved by the NHS 23 nights ago, I think it’s time I started to really learn how to cook sugar free 🌸
Thank you for sharing this book with us Louise 💫
A couple of weeks ago I met an old friend in our usual coffee shop and was very much looking forward to our obligatory huge slabs of cake.
‘I’m sugar free now,’ she said.
‘Why?’ I tried to ignore the stabbing pain of betrayal as I gazed longingly at the desserts behind the counter.
‘You know why.’ She gave me the look. Pretty much the same one our tutor gave us when we first met on a nutritional therapy course fifteen years ago.
Sugar is bad. We all know that and yet we continue to eat it.
‘But sugar tastes so good!’ I said.
‘I’ve just read Sweet Poison by David Gillespie and it explains everything so well. All that stuff we were taught but we choose to ignore nowadays. Buy the book.’ She said
‘I don’t want to.’
‘Honestly, Louise. You have so much pain and inflammation it could…
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A perfect companion of coffee!!
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I think I should stand up in the defense of sugar. I don’t put white sugar into tea or coffee or onto porridge or anything else. But I eat cookies, and desserts and fruits and chocolate and other sugary things. I don’t think it has damaged my health. It does not make me hyperactive. Nor did it make my kids hyperactive when they were young. However I should say that all the sugar I eat is in fairly moderate quantities. Lastly there are always food fashions and within thenmthere are food “villians” and over time I have seen so many come and go I now just follow my own eating and try to be sensible.
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That sounds a sensible approach Anne, and similar to my own until now. I have a sweet tooth and adore a pudding in a restaurant, a cake here and there. My problem is that it doesn’t stop there!
I’ll buy a choc bar with a mocha from a costa in a garage when I fill up; I’ll eat a family size bag of revels and forget I’ve got a family; I’ll eat the leftover crumble so I can wash out the dish … 🤣🙈
With mother being so ill, and having ignored all her medical advice, it nearly took her life.
So I’m just preparing to reshuffle some of my expectations. I won’t be going all lettuce on you, I promise 🌸💫
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Hmm. I might have to check this out too. Not that I eat a lot of sugar, but maybe I need to cut back even further.
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The book sounds amazing and I’ve been following Louise and some of the recipes that look beautiful.
My mother has very bad diabetes … I got dad to test me yesterday with her test kit. I was 7.2 which he said was “perfect” … but that’s because he’s used to seeing mother’s 8-18 readings!
I’d prefer mine to be between 4 and 6 👌🏼 so I feel some small changes now in my diet in my late 40s will be a good investment in my longer term health 🌸
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏I’m glad your investing in your health, Yes!
Sugar also affects cognitive preformance.
On the plus side eating fruit is ok! Despite it having sugar.
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Because it’s ‘natural’ sugar? 🤗
💃🏼
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Because the sugar within fruit is defused in the fibrous fruit. But I would be disinclined to consume fruit juice. I’ll have an apple for lunch and I’ll be full till dinner. But with a juicer or fruit juice from the store you could liquify 5-6 apples and consume the sugar from the 5-6 apples since it’s concentrated sugar without the pulp or fiber .
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Exactly … yup. I knew fruit juices are the devil incarnate 👌🏼
The fibres in apple skins and eating bananas which are nearer green than brown is also a tip for consuming less sugar, yet still gaining the potassium?
Thank you for the science bit 🤗
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Glad I could be helpful
The real devil is carbs.
I miss sourdough 😢😢😢
And cake and biscuits
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Gluten free bread, flour, biscuits … I do try and occasionally buy and consume them.
But then sometimes I’m hit by the naughty pangs and I give in 🙈
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Yeah I remember on your Mom (I’m the one whose Mom passed from various issues including Diabetes last year). And I’m in the same boat myself, though I haven’t considered testing myself. Given my family history, it would be a really good idea to kick sugar, and I have been cutting down on it.
Still, I have had some minor issues with insomnia and also with inflammation and general soreness. I’d LOVE to be able to kick the inflammation down and wouldn’t mind losing a few pounds while I was at it too.
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I do remember you kindly sharing your story my lovely .. 🌸
I’m unsure I can kick it completely – but I’m definitely able to reduce my intake. Let’s try together?
I’m going to buy a test kit and test once a week. I won’t become obsessed (I hope) but I think it won’t harm to keep an eye on things 🌸
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I’m game, though I just did grocery shopping and now I am wondering what to do with some of my soon-to-be off limits items lol.
When do we start? I’ll need to procure the Quit book at least..
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End of this month?
We can research and think about it until then?? 🤣🙈
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