It's been four days since Ellen started her sugar-free diet, and it's been quite a journey as she adjusts to the change. She made this video to let you know how it's going -- check it out!
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It's been four days since Ellen started her sugar-free diet, and it's been quite a journey as she adjusts to the change. She made this video to let you know how it's going -- check it out!
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Hi I just now finished reading your blog and I'm rather impressed. I do have some questions for you however. Are you currently intending on doing a follow-up posting on this? Do you think you're likely to keep posting as well? Also if you get an opportunity would you rate my acai web page if you receive a chance?
I really need to win that gmc terrain. Im wanting to go to school but its a two hour drive. I have 3 kids . My moM got me a used minivan but its got high miles and the check engine light is on. It wont last thru school. Ive tried to write in on the ellen website but it wont let me submit it without a photo. But i cant bc it says upload disabled.??? I dont get it. Well, it doesnt stop me from watchin the show but it does make me wonder why i cant correspond without a picture. Cant i just describe what i look like? Lol. I WANT A GMC TERRAIN!!!
Learn, everyone gives listings. Now, we've formed one for you. Here are, in our judgement, the sweetest all-around games on Microsoft's Xbox. The crazy thing is, this list didn't look as controversial as so many lists of this kind have in the past. It's splendid obvious what the top two or three games are on Best Xbox, ok?
I haven't been watching the show - and it's delayed getting to Australia anyway. But I'm interested that you're trying (succeeding?) to give up sugar.
I was severely clinically depressed and turned to 'Potatoes not Prozac' in desperation. A 7-step plan, with step 5 being eliminating caffeine, and step 6, sugar!
No way, I thought. Step 4 is all I need to get to. A good night's sleep (as foretold on step 4) and I'd be right.
Well, after a few weeks on step 4 I realised that my 'sweet tooth' was disappearing! And that I'd only been having my morning coffee for the sugar hit, NOT the caffeine!
So giving up sugar for me became very easy - just a matter of adjusting old habits - no 'whiteknuckling' anywhere in sight!
So - you CAN do this!
First, what are you having for breakfast? You need a stable base for this new regime!
Deidree in Tasmania whose life changed in SO many ways after reaching step 7!!!!
Hi, Ellen,
Please skip the Agave Nectar... please don't use it at all. It will trigger the same responses as white sugar and high-fructose corn syrup! Please read about it, and other information about some smart natural sweeteners we can use in Jorge Cruise's book, the belly fat cure.
Please check out the info on Jorge's website and his belly fat cure book. The guidelines in his plan are 15 grams or less of sugar per day (and there are also carb guidelines) and all sugar is counted... milk has sugar, fruit has sugar, it is hidden in many of our foods. Many people have had success on this plan, myself included, and it is not hard once I knew what to look for and the good choices I could make.
Ellen, please check it out, and please watch all sugar, even in fruit, milk, etc. I feel like a new person! This does not mean I am deprived of good food, and I can still easily satisfy my sweet tooth, and also have fruit... I just know which ones to choose.
Ellen,
I have now been sugar free for nine months (begin April 27, 2009)in a plan to stay off sugar for one year. The incentive for this was the fact that my mother was a diabetic and also because I seem to have quite an problem with overindulgence. I've also fallen off the wagon 15 different days (there were days I allowed myself to have sugar). It's not easy but at the same time, in ways it's easier than always chiding myself for over indulging. I'm also off any sugar substitutes, honey or any sweetening agents. I am eating fruit and some cereals that have low amounts of sugar, e.g., Cheerios.
While I didn't begin this experiment to lose weight, I have lost 8 pounds even though I have allowed myself to eat other "bad" food such as sweet potato fries. Figure I can't give up salt at the same time. I'm only human, for goodness sakes!!
Best of luck in your endeavor. I wish you the best.
Ellen -- are you doing any Splenda or sugar substitute? I know they are bad for you, but it may make it easier for me to go off sugar. Day One!
Hi Ellen, (or who reads this for you)
great choices for a life style! There is a question I have for you in this... had you quit alcohol as well? Regards from Colombia!
Hi Ellen, I recently did a detox from sugar. It wasn't easy, but the results were worth it. The pounds just fall off when you eliminate sugar. I have lost ten pounds and 4 inches from my hips! Guess we know where all that sugar goes. Good luck.
Hi Ellen,
After a long haul with sugar, I finally discovered I was sugar-sensitive (which is biochemcial, i.e. biological), and one of the ways you can tell is if you are addicted to sugar. You don't have to be overweight, although many SSers are, and it may take the form of many symptoms including depression. I think it's great you are trying to become sugar-free, and what I have learned is that all the times I thought I was sugar-free before, I wasn't. I strongly urge you to check out sugar sensitivity. Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons is the one who coined the condition, and has a wealth of information and recovering folks through her web site, www.radiantrecovery.com. She is the author of many books on the subject including Potatoes Not Prozac and The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program. You might relate, and more, understand why sugar has the affect on you that it does. Best of luck as you work this out.
Hi Ellen,
I found days 4 and 5 of my detox the hardest. I found I got crabby, overwhelmed and teary. Once I learned that it was my biochemistry (not my willpower) that caused this, I felt better.
Check out the "sugar expert", Kathleen DesMaisons on her website www.radiantrecovery.com
Erin
PS. The cravings for other foods apart from sugar started kicking in around the 4th day. Potato crisps, fruit, white-flour biscuits, even rice! Once I learned about my sugar sensitivity, everything made sense.
Hi Ellen,
Well, this is day four of my sugar free diet and I was doing so good until today! I had a mini cupcake and frozen yogurt! I was doing so well and then I was upset today and I had to have a sugar hit! Now, I feel tired again and depressed!
I have to start all over again, wish me luck!
How are you doing on your sugar diet Ellen?
Keep up the good work Ellen, don't crash like I did!
Wishing you luck! Connie from Ontario, Canada
You go girl. Your doing a whole lot better than you did on quitting caffine. Your still smiling and making me laugh everyday.
My wife was starting a No Sugar, No Flour diet in Jan 1. I decided to
Do it with her for support (and my own health.) She has chosen to eat Wheat flour in small portions but I have gone cold turkey on everything.
We eat so much more healthy now and our foods are greens, yellows, oranges and reds (as opposed to processed and white.)
I am amazed that I can eat sandwiches with lettuce instead of bread. I have lost 14 lbs and my wife has lost 8 lbs. You can make these healthy changes if you put your mind to it!
i think it is cool what you are doing. one of my best friends is vegan and she has completely helped me and my family to learn a different way of eating....while we are not vegan....we are slowly on our way to becoming vegan....some days better than others.
my question to you is....when you do hollywood next week for idol.....you guys have coke cups....even if you have water in them....to me it is a misrepresentation of your "no sugar" ethic. just curious how you get around that when coke obviously pays a lot of money to have those cups sitting in front of you guys for millions to see.
love your show and can't wait to watch you on idol.
I would like to join this because I am really bad for eating alot of sweet things and always have been. Unfortunelately when I do type in my info it says to select a state but I live in British Columbia, in Canada. Ellen please make it availabe in Canada as well. I love your show and try to watch when I can.
Thank you Carla
My wife was starting a No Sugar, No Flour diet in Jan 1. I decided to
Do it with her for support (and my own health.) She has chosen to eat Wheat flour in small portions but I have gone cold turkey on everything.
We eat so much more healthy now and our foods are greens, yellows, oranges and reds (as opposed to processed and white.)
I am amazed that I can eat sandwiches with lettuce instead of bread. I have lost 14 lbs and my wife has lost 8 lbs. You can make these healthy changes if you put your mind to it!
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