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Originally Posted by milliondollarbbw
Congrats on the weightloss! I act the same way, and will usually only believe i have lost the weight if my scale shows it over a few days.
I also think that cutting out the sugar can make a person irritable. It is best to not think about what you are not having, and what you are gaining---better health.  |
Chrys: WTG on the loss! It's fantastic when the scale starts that decline. Don't worry about the loss slowing. Your weight didn't go on overnight, it won't come off overnight. Just keep at it and watch the pounds add up over time.
Cutting out sugar if someone is addicted to it will make them very irritable. A drug addict and a sugar addict activate the same pleasure receptors in the brain when given their drug of choice/sugar.
There was a recent study done on rats at Princeton University, where they were given normal rat food and a 25% solution of sugar-water (similar to the sugar in a coke). The rats started to decrease their food intake, but increase their sugar-water intake until it doubled!! When the sugar was taken away, they had classic withdrawl symptoms (shaking/tremors, sweating, palpitations and intense cravings).
Most Westerners will tell you they're not addicted, but they'd be lying through their teeth. I remember watching this one program called "Can Fat Teens Hunt" where they bring obese teens into the wilderness, leave them with a primitive society (primitive by our standards) and the teens have to live like them. Anyway, first night, every single one of them has a tremendous sugar crash; one little bimbo-wannabe complained the whole night about wanting to go home. Try to get a typical Westerner to give up sugar for 10 days and they'll be crawling and begging for a Coke or some white bread within a couple of days.
I'm at a loss for words....
