25-30 pounds up, then back down quickly to my normal weight. I'm convinced it was the sugar (that I no longer eat) that led me to consume more calories than I intended.
I was never a big fan of sugar in the sense that I craved it. I rarely drank any sodas.
A few months ago, I somehow decided that the best way to consume eggs (for choline) was in the form of french toast. This was a bad idea, but it was a very tasty idea as long as I dumped some real maple syrup on it. I guess I never really paid attention to the portions because I ended up buying more syrup per week than when I started.
So I gained some weight and it was pretty fast. So fast, in fact, that it scared me half to death. I ended up reading this article:
Long story short, sugar feeds certain bacteria, and those bacteria release chemicals that tell you to be hungry and eat more sugar. If you don't give those bacteria what they want, they won't grow and multiply as fast. The steamed broccoli bacteria (not a real term for them) will take over in the intestine war, and they will demand more broccoli. The same for the egg bacteria... that is if you actually supply them with eggs or broccoli so that they can be fruitful and multiply.
This is all I did: I went to the store and bought a few probiotic items, ate/drank those, and I forced myself only to eat eggs, chicken, broccoli, carrots, other plant foods, and stuff like that. No sugar, very little bread, etc. Only a few days later did I stop craving sugar. I stopped being hungry 45 minutes after I ate. I most likely ate a lot fewer calories just by doing this.
This part is important: I did not pay attention to calories, nor did I pay any attention to when I should eat. I simply let my body tell me when it was time to eat. All I did was cut out sugar and ate probiotics. I know everyone is different, so I'm not trying to suggest this will end the obesity epidemic, but I did have a positive story to share with you all. I would still recommend counting calories, but the point is my body seemed to have readjusted itself to telling me when I'm actually hungry.
Something else that I read a long time ago that could help you guys get motivated to eat right:
Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they’d downplay the links between sugar and heart disease in a prominent medical journal—and the researchers did it, according to historical documents reported Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
One of those Harvard researchers went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where he set the stage for the federal government’s current dietary guidelines. All in all, the corrupted researchers and skewed scientific literature successfully helped draw attention away from the health risks of sweets and shift the blame solely to fats—for nearly five decades. The low-fat, high-sugar diets that health experts subsequently encouraged are now seen as a main driver of the current obesity epidemic.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2548255
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