Sugar alternatives are recommended as if they make the fact that you’re an addict any better or easier to deal with.
They don’t.
It’s only another source of mental gymnastics and delusion so you can fool yourself into thinking you’re doing the right thing.
It’s a coping mechanism.
Let’s talk about this.
1. Sugar Alcohols
Erythritol, Maltitol, and anything with a similar spelling are all known as sugar alcohols.
As Wikipedia puts it:
Sugar alcohols are used widely in the food industry as thickeners and sweeteners. In commercial foodstuffs, sugar alcohols are commonly used in place of table sugar (sucrose), often in combination with high-intensity artificial sweeteners, in order to offset their low sweetness. Xylitol and sorbitol are popular sugar alcohols in commercial foods.
Replacing table sugar with sugar alcohol will NOT break your addiction to sugar, sweet foods, sweet things, or your sweet tooth.
All you’re doing is playing mental gymnastics, which keeps the sugar habit around.
Besides, many foods that use sugar alcohols instead of regular sugar come with side effects unless you’re unaffected but ultimately don’t solve your cravings which is what matters here.
2. “Natural” sugars like Stevia
There are a group of sugars like Stevia that come from plants, meaning they come from the earth and are therefore natural.
But again, we’re talking about your sweet tooth, we’re not talking about whether it’s actually healthier to eat or not.
Products like Stevia, unlike sugar alcohols, aren’t as sweet but if you use a lot of it then you can get a level of sweeteners that will satisfy you.
The problem with that should be clear. Plus too much Stevia, as I’ve personally experienced, can have a laxative effect and I couldn’t sleep the same night despite having Stevia hours earlier.
3. Strawberries and cream
Strawberries are great, and so is cream. But if you’re seriously trying to break your sugar addiction, that means strawberries and cream won’t do you any good.
The sweet and subtle taste of the strawberries along with the cream will tempt you too much into having more strawberries or more sugar in some way, shape, or form.
No sugar addict can have disciplined portion sizes so you’re only fooling yourself.
4. Making your own milkshakes
Even making your own milkshakes vs buying them won’t fix your sugar addiction if you’re the type to have a lot of milkshakes.
They taste good, no doubt. Oreo milkshakes are popular (for the wrong reasons) but they speak to the sugar addiction that millions of people have.
Making your own won’t taste the same until you finally rid yourself of your sugar addiction. Even then it won’t taste the same but it will taste good and you won’t crave more sweetness from it.
5. Eating fruits like oranges, mango, Kiwi, watermelon, etc
This mostly applies to Western countries or any country that has adopted a Western way of eating, which is a bad thing.
Fruits in the West are unnatural by design. Most of them don’t grow despite them being sold in supermarkets.
They’re sprayed to death with things no human or animal should be putting inside of their own body or system. And the quality of these fruits are trash.
They’re unnaturally sweet and besides, mangoes, oranges, or any fruit that is especially sweet won’t do your sugar addiction any good.
6. Replacing sugar with honey
Honey is bragged about and claimed to be this healthy thing that can replace sugar. They even tell you about the benefits and miracles it can work on you, your skin, and your immune system.
All of this in practice is mostly hype of course because, in the end, honey is still a sugar and too much sugar means you don’t get any benefits at all.
And more importantly, having honey to replace sugar is delusional. Even if it’s “Manuka” honey or any other premium honey.
It’s like switching from doughnuts to cakes, or in this case, white sugar to brown sugar. You still end up with the same problem you’ve always had.
7. Keto chocolate bars or sweets
I learnt this the hard way as well, but it all adds to my wisdom.
I started out eating a lot of grenade bars when I wanted to go keto and of course, to continue keeping my sugar as low as possible.
I’d look at the back of the grenade bars (chocolate version) and think hmm, this looks like a dream come true.
In a way it kind of is, but it won’t eliminate your sugar addiction either. The only reason it worked for me is because I stopped eating sugar years before.
Added sugars, honey, etc, I gave up a long time ago. My only challenge was getting rid of hidden sugars, which is ironically in the keto bars, chocolate, and obviously sweets.
8. Low carb desserts
As usual, when it comes to the keto community and some of the culture vulture companies who sell “Low carb” desserts and products, you need to analyse what you’re considering.
Look at the back of the pack and tell me if that is really a low carb or low sugar dessert. Often times they add Sucralose, or other sweeteners (sugar alcohols for example) to make the food sweet.
The sugar count may “look” low, but the effects because of the sweeteners have the same effect on your body despite the trickery and deception that comes with the nutritional values.
Besides, you can’t break your addiction by eating desserts, let alone a low carb one.
9. Vegan cheese
Vegan cheese is awful. Imagine trying to call vegan cheese “cheese” when it’s anything but cheese in the first place.
In the real world and in nature, cheese doesn’t have carbohydrates and sugars in high amounts or even moderate amounts. And yet, vegan cheese violates both of these rules.
Look at the back of any vegan product and you’ll see the truth in plain sight, regardless of what the brand might be.
10. Any food labelled “vegan” that was originally sweet or addictive
Vegan products are a joke. They slap the vegan label on absolutely anything they can get their hands on, and the world, especially British society, now believes it must mean it’s “healthy”.
This shows how blind people are because no one looks at the nutritional labels and realizes the truth of the matter.
Any vegan product that was originally sweet, or just a trash food in general, MUST be avoided.
You can’t fix your sugar addiction just because it’s supposedly vegan in a strict or loose sense.
11. Sweeteners like sucralose or acesulfame K
I know this personally. I used to drink and devour Ribena, a so-called blackcurrant drink in the UK that is popular.
The sweetness of this drink is insane in hindsight.
While you might think you’re drinking “real” blackcurrant, the real deal is sour, not sweet. And a few diluted drinks of Ribena has massive problems on your skin and blood sugars.
By the way, sucralose is 600 times sweeter than sugar and I can believe it.
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In the end, if you wanna cut down on sugar and destroy your addiction, you can’t do it with replacements that are often just as sweet.
With fruits, yes, you can have them and they are a better alternative, but not during the process of quitting sugar.
Unless it’s Avocados.
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