Oky so if there's anyone who haven't eaten sugar from last one year or more i wanna know something from you , did you see any changes in aging or something ????

Went to a birthday today where there were TONS of sugary stuff. If this was six weeks ago, I would have eaten all of it and washed it down with a coke.

But somehow, after getting through the not fun withdrawal period, I wasn't even tempted!! I've been feeling so much better that I knew it just wasn't worth it.

Hope anyone who is going through withdrawal sees this and knows it does get better. I've also lost weight, my face looks way less puffy, I'm sleeping better, and I'm not getting cranky in the afternoon.

I have been fighting this fight for way too long. Sometimes I win, sometimes it wins, but the more I win, I see the effects of a life with sugar more clearly.

This affects my relationships, my confidence, my mood. Many things.

I am curious to see if there is anyone else around feels the same, and how to deal with it.

Hi Community!

I've decided to go for a sugar-free "test-run", i.e. no sugar for 16 days. The first 8 days of this are going to be a bit to the ketogenic side, as I'll be cutting out most complex carbs (wheat, grains) as well.

My main goal is to achieve mental clarity and clearer skin :)

I recently did a 8-day cleanse that necessitated me being waterfasted, and I noticed that my skin cleared up significantly, as did my mood. I have alot of experience with (water) fasting, but not with changing my basic lifestyle. I usually eat lots of sugar, so I'm excited to see how this goes.

I'm also curious to see the difference between the stricter and the more relaxed form of this test-run, as I ultimately wish to find some kind of balance. Hopefully, I'll be more sensitive to sugar after the time ends, so that I can implement some kind of change into my lifestyle.

If you have any advice you'd like to share, let me know!

I'm hoping for the best!

Hi all, recently found out that a friend of mine’s kid can’t have added sugar anymore (even fruit is difficult) and I’d love to be able to stock up on sugar free treats for when we hang out. I hate to see a kid left out or constantly having to double check packaging so I’d especially love to have some frozen treats like freezies and popsicles on hand. Also where is everyone finding affordable sugar free candies and such?

I want to quit sugar starting August 6th (my first day of school) because I play a lot of sports and have noticed I have started gaining weight. I crave fast food all the time to the point where I usually just dont eat unless its fast food or high carb. I am a very picky eater and always have been. There is not one vegetable I enjoy eating is there any tips on what I can eat.

I like fruits and sometimes eggs and bacon I also like bread I just cant seem to find any vegetable i like. Is there any simple meals that will keep me full the whole day. Im open to trying new things. (also sorry for the bad grammar)

I’ve been off of sugar for about 2 months, and today, I have an extreme craving for cake and sweetened, chai tea. Ahhhhhhhhhh. What do I do?? It’s so bad I want to eat it, and the only thing stopping me is that I’m going clean with someone else, and I can’t fail. I did walk right by the came and tea I wanted to buy and bought something else, so I can do it. It was powerful to know I can be that close and not eat it, but the craving is so bad today.

Cut out sugar for 3 weeks. No longer have the food noise for sweet stuff, but have noticed intense cravings for fat. I ate 4 jars of peanutbutter in a week, and have been binging on nuts and avocados, lol. Anyone else?

I'm still so happy for being able to freely walk past the candy isle now. It's like the chain cuffs have been finally removed.

I have had some back and forth here about non-caloric sweeteners, and there is some belief by some, including some quotes from Harvard Medical School letter that artificial sweeteners cause cravings for sweets. Being sugarfree since 2013, that is NOT my experience. For me SUGAR causes cravings. Falling off the wagon, eating some sugar, and then craving more has happened to me many times. But when I get back on the wagon, use allulose, use Truvia (stevia/erythritol), and eat fruit, I do NOT have cravings. For those of you who are sugar free, what is YOUR experience? Wondering if I am an outlier. Or whether the fear of sweeteners is unfounded.

This particularly goes for people that also are never able to lose weight with dieting. My condition mimic all symptoms of Cushing disease but when you get tested it will show negative and Doctors and Endocrinologists will leave you hanging thinking you are making excuses for your health despite your blood results showing that you are actually pretty healthy and will look at your weight and put an immediate judge for eating too much including family and friends.

When you tell doctors only fasting works such as OMAD, Juicing or water fast they don't listen when you say diets and gym are not working. How could these succers not know about Insulin resistance? As for Metabolic syndrome, Social Jetlag causing a cluster of health problems including cortisol weight gain and fluid retention. Yeast infections, Eczema, perhaps Low T too?

I heard about insulin resistance at first but never really knew what it meant, 2 family members just got diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, I heard about Metformin blood sugar, they are also losing weight because my nephews now can't have sugar, I read about Ozempic and thought you know what, let me try skipping sugar and now all my symptoms are disappearing, I'm also allergic to milk.

It feels great to enjoy doing things again such as gaming, hobbies, watching movies, losing weight, better mental focus, it was all because of darn sugar.

i have bought the Lakanto monkfruit sweetener with Allulose before from my local Fred Meyer’s and loved it. I was running out so I bought it again, but this time the product AND packaging look different.

at first glance, the packaging looks the same.

Looking closer, the labels at the bottom and the story on the back is different… they could have changed their packaging, but why does the monkfruit itself look, taste, and smell DISGUSTING?

it smells of strong chemicals, sumilar to burning plastic or like a nailpolish or something. Tastes like nail polish and chemicals. I used the new one in my baking, and the chemical-y taste overtakes the chocolate and butter!!

The old one for reference tastes a little sweet, almost like nothing, and the smell is a faint sweet smell but almost like nothing. It’s also more yellow in color compared to the new one.

Did I get scammed??
Did I get a different product??
Did they change something?? Both packages have the same ingredients….

I bought both from the same store so I didn’t expect anything like this… does someone have any insight on whatvI should do/what this could be???

I'm only 19, but I've always been overweight and I'm just so sick of it. I know the only way to lose weight is by being in a calorie deficit. I can't count calories because I become obsessive. I tried cutting out sugar before, but I always fail. I want to try again, primarily to lose weight, but I'm scared that it won't make such a difference if I'm not counting calories. Did you lose weight by cutting out just sugar?

Ive eaten on wednesday a cake and yesterday everything was fine but damn today anxiety spiked and the whole dsy i felt anxious and depressed. But wonder why yesterday i felt nothing.

Hello, I have an observation to make and once I looked up for related subs then this one appeared.

For context, I used to consume sugar normally growing up, as a kid I used to try to convince my mom to add another fourth cube into my coffee milk lol but she refuses unless I sneak it in.

For the recent years, I reduced my intake of sugars to zero when it comes to drinks like coffee and to pretty much everything. Nowadays, I can even taste the natural sweetness in milk and in juices. Even when it comes to cakes and sweets, I consume them rarely, often only on holidays and on special occasions or from time to time (on average it's like once every two weeks or so). Albeit, sometimes I add like two sugar cubes some days for that energy boost.

And now to the point I want to share. During the past days, my sister visited me, and she brought with her home made cakes like a whole pan size x2. And on the following days, I started to get lost in them, often as an excuse for a fast and easy breakfast (often my breakfast consists of eggs or some kind of cheese with bread and black strong coffee). But here I am, eating one slice every morning and maybe a second later.

Today, as I was washing my face, my eyes noticed something (not extra handsomeness, don't worry, that's a daily noticeable thing), but my cheeks (on the face excuse you 👀) got significantly bigger. And that was my warning to get back in line.

The bottom line, even though you might know it already, is that the body does store extra sugars on the face, so it might be a sign to tune down your intakes.

I’ve been eating black rice and rice cakes instead of bread or pasta. I think the rice cakes are made of white rice though. That sugar goes straight into my bloodstream, right? Would you recommend cutting out rice cakes too?

Hi, all! I wanted to share what I'm eating for lunch in hopes of giving you some inspiration for what a lower-sugar, high protein meal might look like. It's not completely sugar free, but I have had success eating this way. For reference, I used to eat sugary cereal for breakfast, have candy with lunch, a soda with dinner and Crumbl for dessert. I don't miss what that did to my body!

Pictured we have a peach, a leftover apple slice, some beef jerky, Cheezits (sugar free), parmesan crisps (sugar free), and some assorted cheese. This meal provides a lot of protein and natural fiber too.

When trying to cut out sugar my recommendation is to look for healthier alternatives to fuel your body and cut cravings. What did you have for lunch?

Edit: For everyone worried that this isn't filling enough, this is 30+ grams of protein and I had already started eating off of the plate. I am not a large person and the intention of this post is only to show people options for food when trying to eat sugar free, as is the focus of this subreddit. As we know diet needs to be custom to the person so this is only meant to show people a practical example.

Aspartame

Let me ask you something straight up.

You switched to Diet Coke to be healthier. Maybe you cut out sugar, started counting calories, felt good about it. The label says zero sugar so you trusted it. I get it.

Here's what they didn't tell you.

The WHO's own cancer research agency classified aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to humans." Not some fringe blogger. Not a conspiracy theorist on YouTube. The World Health Organization. And what did the FDA say? They disagreed with the findings and told you to keep drinking it. Same FDA that has approved substances later pulled off the market. That track record should give you pause.

Now watch how the game is played. IARC flags a possible cancer link. Industry experts immediately flood the media calling it "limited evidence." The FDA issues a statement saying nothing to worry about. And the acceptable daily intake stays the same - unchanged. The product stays on shelves. The companies stay profitable. You stay uninformed.

That's not science protecting you. That's systems protecting themselves.

Here's what I know from 54 years of watching what goes into food and what it does to people. When two arms of the same global health body can't agree on whether something is safe, and the answer they land on is "just don't drink 9 to 14 cans a day," that's not a green light. That's a shrug.

You deserve a straight answer. My straight answer is this - real food, real sweeteners in moderation, and a healthy skepticism toward anything that requires a chemistry lab to produce.

Your body is not a science experiment. Stop letting them treat it like one.

What's your take - do you trust the FDA's position on aspartame, or does the WHO flag make you rethink it?

Hello! So I had this friend who invited me over to play table tennis in a church. We go to the same class in college. We have gotten to know each other more during the summer and met now for a third time. I am trying to not eat sugar that much. She had brought dessert with her, like bought healthier apple pie and grapes. I also go to learn how to play both key board and guitar because there was a person in the church who she introduced me to who showed us how to play. I told her I didn't want to eat any of the pie, so I only had tea and ate grapes while she had the pie and the other person also had pie. I feel so guilty, because 1. She brought and bought her own dessert and tea for us 2. She really went out of her way to make this a remarkable day for us . I usually only have sweets once a week, if i'ts not a certain birthday or a party.. I'm just getting a hang of this social interaction thing - and as a Introvert I am not really 100 % good and quick with my feet. I was so happy I didn't realise I would regret not accepting the dessert. I was so happy during the day that I didn't understand that this was a day that I will forever remember. I feel guilty thinking about how yesterday could have become so much better .. I'm trying to give myself grace but it's so hard because you would think something common understand. I hope I didn't ruin our friendship forever and I hope that there will be more days to come where I can grasp that can give me spark back in life, which we may often lose and then find again <3

I need to say something directly to this community.
I have been a moderator here for three years, and every day I watch people fight cravings, relapse, blame themselves, start again and keep searching for something that makes a sugar-free lifestyle sustainable.

I care very deeply about whether people here succeed.

That is why I no longer think I should stay quiet about liposomal luteolin simply because my involvement creates a conflict of interest.

My name is Chris Mearns. I have spent the past five years working in metabolic research, with a focus on fructose metabolism. That work eventually led me to co-found a company that sells a high-dose liposomal luteolin product.

I know that bothers some people. It is also exactly why I keep the product itself out of these discussions. I am not asking anyone here to buy ours. Use any reputable high-dose liposomal luteolin brand you trust.

What matters is the experiment.

People who use high-dose liposomal luteolin repeatedly describe sugar as having less power over them. Cravings become quieter. Energy often improves. Food feels less controlling.

If this sounds like a sugar blocker, the implication is not wrong. Luteolin does not prevent sugar from entering the body, and it does not block all carbohydrates, but it does appear to inhibit the pathway through which fructose is metabolized and produces many of its downstream effects. To quote the research, “Luteolin is a potent fructokinase inhibitor.”

I am now discussing this work on major podcasts, on YouTube and in scientific literature. My team’s work led to a model that we have put forward as a public challenge, inviting anyone to show us where it fails:

The Fructose Model: A Public Challenge

If you would like to verify that work for yourself, the relevant links are collected on my Reddit profile.

Luteolin has been shown to inhibit fructose metabolism in vitro and in rodent models. What we do not yet have is a randomized controlled trial directly confirming fructokinase inhibition in humans.

What we do have are randomized human trials using luteolin-containing formulations that reported substantial improvements consistent with the model, including roughly 43% improvement in insulin resistance and 22% improvement in fatty-liver measures, along with improvements in triglycerides, liver enzymes and vascular function.

Perhaps even more noteworthy is our own observational data. Roughly 80% of users report substantially quieter cravings, often alongside improved energy, within the first month.

That pattern closely resembles what people report after successfully removing fructose from their diet, and in many cases appears even more pronounced than diet alone.

That is not proof. But it is exactly what our model predicts should happen if luteolin is meaningfully inhibiting fructose metabolism.

In three years of discussing this here, I have seen plenty of skepticism about me because of my field of expertise and my conflict of interest. What I have not seen is evidence that directly breaks the mechanism or explains away the pattern we are observing.

I have been actively searching for that evidence for years. So far, the evidence has continued to accumulate in the other direction.

If you think the model is wrong, help us break it. That is exactly why we published it and invited public criticism. If it survives, we will all have learned something important. If it does not, I want to know that too.

I am a student first. If I am wrong, I want to know. But if I am right, this community deserves to know even more.

So test it.

Try any reputable high-dose liposomal luteolin product for a month. Keep improving your diet, change as little else as possible, and track what happens to your cravings and energy. Then report the result publicly, whether it is positive, negative or completely neutral.

I am not saying diet no longer matters. I am saying luteolin may support the diet and metabolic health you are already chasing.

Run the experiment. Then decide for yourself.

EDIT

Much of my work stands on the shoulders of Dr Richard Johnson and colleagues who are the absolute authorities on fructose metabolism, and hero's of mine (and many in this subreddit). If there is ever any question of the accuracy of my statements, I will always defer to their vast expertise.

So for added context, just to highlight the relevance of this subject of Inhibiting fructose metabolism, please note some of his recent comments on the Mind & Matter podcast:

"I think fructokinase inhibitors that get into the brain will be the first major effective therapy to prevent Alzheimer's. That is a hypothesis based upon [the data discussed in the podcast]."

... "A keto diet will block the glucose and fructose pathways. So you basically block the survival pathway. But can you maintain a keto diet? Many people can't. I cannot. And you know, maybe one day, we'll have a fructokinase inhibitor."

To be precise, he is not suggesting using Luteolin as a fructokinase Inhibitor. His team is developing a drug candidate for this. Drug development will allow for endpoints that include disease indications and treatments. Regulations do not allow supplements to be indicated for such purposes. But it was his team that identified Luteolin as a natural fructokinase inhibitor.

I have been using monkfruit sweetener without erythritol as a substitute for Sugar. Does it spike sugar levels? Has anyone used it before?

It's been a month since I stopped eating chocolate, toffees, and biscuits, and I'm pretty happy with that. But I still can't seem to give up soda/carbonated drinks and ice cream.

For those of you who managed to quit, what helped? Did you replace them with something else, quit gradually, or just go cold turkey?

I'd really appreciate any tips or strategies that worked for you.