tilia's Shortform
Aug 24, 20195
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I feel fine! I wouldn't say that I've felt noticeably different for having quit sugar.
The cravings were pretty bad for the first 2.5 weeks after I quit. I ate fresh fruit hand over fist during that time to try to mitigate it. Surprisingly, it worked!
11 months later, I'm still living a sugar-free life
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Hey folks. Last August I wrote about how I quit sugar using ripe fruit. I'm excited to share that I've managed to keep it up for nearly a year now.
Cooking: It helps that I'm proficient in the kitchen and can foods that satisfy my desire for variety, while keeping the carb count low. For someone who is less experienced, I could see them ending up eating the same thing and then getting frustrated. Foods I've made include a noodle-free lasagna, chicken shawarma, tuscan kale soup, chili (without beans), roasted asparagus, homemade ranch dressing, cauliflower soup, Szechuan eggplant tofu, spicy... (read more)
Thats fabulous! I have been taking very tentative nibbles of people's desserts, and I'm glad to hear your 1-3 bites strategy is working for you because that's the strategy that I'd most like to use as well! (Social food is so important!)
Re: Primary Thing -- kinda lo dayenu? If I'd only quit being quite so sweets-obsessed, and hadn't started the diet, that would still have been a huge win.
The Keto Diet: I'm not an expert and everyone is different, but there is a thing called "Keto Flu" which I am fortunate enough to not get. I believe that for some people when they switch into ketosis, they may spend as much as a week experiencing fatigue, headaches, and other symptoms until their body adjusts.
I think of exercise and diet as two fairly separate pillars of health. Like, as separate from each other as getting good sleep is from dental hygiene.
Can confirm. I don't post on normal lesswrong because the discourse is brutal.
For me at least, it is possible to eliminate/drastically reduce my sugar cravings.
Typically I feel cravings for something sweet whenever I’m hungry, bored, have just finished a meal, am feeling sad, or am feeling happy. In short, I eat a lot of sweets and also spend a lot of time and effort trying to resist them.
LAST TIME
A few years ago I managed to cold-turkey sweets while I was following a Keto diet. I noticed that in week 3 of keto, my cravings had vanished. No longer did the desire to finish a meal with a bowl of ice cream plague... (read 377 more words →)
Yes absolutely. Its been happening to me ever since high school.
I've heard loads of... stories about DT. In my opinion, it is both an unhealthy environment for many types of people, as well as not being representative of the general concept of a group house.
As someone who has lived in a quasi-rationalist bay area group house for nearly 10 years, and seen it through both good and bad sets of housemates, this post reads like someone writing, "Polyamory Could Be Toxic For Some People!" which is true, but nonetheless, a bit offensive, and not very informative.