What have you done on your bike today?

Gimlet said:
Trouble is if you keep putting sweeteners in your coffee you'll never wean yourself off processed sugary things. You need to re-educate your palate. If someone gave me a cup of tea now with two sugars in it I'd find it undrinkable.
Your palate will adapt if you go cold turkey. The good news is it's nothing like giving up booze or tobacco. Once processed sugars and sweeteners are out of your diet your sugar receptors will quickly pick up on something else.
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Sorry to disagree i probably drink 2 coffees a day with one sweetener per coffee i use no other sugar and I eat no processed food im a stubborn fucker so my will power is strong and im blessed with a non addictive personality ... I only drink vodka with coke zero or Pepsi max which are far healthier than sugary beer .. id love to go full Russian and drink it straight but life has to have some enjoyment and I like to enjoy the taste of my alcohol so for me that's the trade off .. ive tracked the effect on my body and joints and even fat and I can guarantee for me sugar has a far more negative effect than the small amount of sweeteners I use ...
 
Gimlet said:
Trouble is if you keep putting sweeteners in your coffee you'll never wean yourself off processed sugary things. You need to re-educate your palate. If someone gave me a cup of tea now with two sugars in it I'd find it undrinkable.
Your palate will adapt if you go cold turkey. The good news is it's nothing like giving up booze or tobacco. Once processed sugars and sweeteners are out of your diet your sugar receptors will quickly pick up on something else.
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28 days it took me.

I see sugar as a drug of the worst kind in that it's an addiction that plays on your mind. Almost all my life I was addicted to it.

I would eat whatever I had in - it would play on my mind until I'd eaten it. My mind would remember stuff without me consciously thinking about it; I'd be quite happy doing something, then my mind would think 'you've got a Star Bar in the glovebox of your car' and I'd resist it, but always caved in.

I didn't realise how bad it was until I stopped all carbs for 28 days...day 29 was like switching on a light - the craving had gone. I'd never felt what it was like to not want it. Its very freeing.

Weirdly, it's the only thing I've been addicted to - recreationals were always just that...a way of heightening a night out or an event - they never played on my mind when it wasn't the time for them. But sugar...
 
Further to the above, when I'd lost weight previously, I was still sugar addicted because I would do keto - meat and veg - the sugar in the veg was enough to keep me addicted, so as soon as I lost enough weight, I'd go straight back to eating crap for the sugar hit, and that's why I was always a yo-yo dieter.
 
Dox said:
28 days it took me.

I see sugar as a drug of the worst kind in that it's an addiction that plays on your mind. Almost all my life I was addicted to it.

I would eat whatever I had in - it would play on my mind until I'd eaten it. My mind would remember stuff without me consciously thinking about it; I'd be quite happy doing something, then my mind would think 'you've got a Star Bar in the glovebox of your car' and I'd resist it, but always caved in.

I didn't realise how bad it was until I stopped all carbs for 28 days...day 29 was like switching on a light - the craving had gone. I'd never felt what it was like to not want it. Its very freeing.

Weirdly, it's the only thing I've been addicted to - recreationals were always just that...a way of heightening a night out or an event - they never played on my mind when it wasn't the time for them. But sugar...
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Cmon .... star bars rock man 😆
 
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I have much less joint pain these days. The constant hip pain I used to have is 99% gone now.

If I eventually go full carnivore (instead of my current strong meat bias diet) I imagine even the remaining, occasional little niggles will go.
However, I'm not feeling any urgency to remove that last of my veggie aspects in view of this and the fact that I don't suffer from sweet-tooth or sugar addiction issues, and haven't done so since entirely removing cakes, biscuits, chocolate, etc from my diet. (My weakness is salty foods - as evidenced by my former addition to crisps, French fries and such.)

It was interesting that, having had a couple of extra Shredded Wheat the day before yesterday (I was uncharacteristically hungry that day), I was feeling unpleasant symptoms very much like those I got all of the time before sorting my current diet out.

Edit: Wait - this is the Diet thread, right?
 
The skitz said:
Sorry to disagree i probably drink 2 coffees a day with one sweetener per coffee i use no other sugar and I eat no processed food im a stubborn fucker so my will power is strong and im blessed with a non addictive personality ... I only drink vodka with coke zero or Pepsi max which are far healthier than sugary beer .. id love to go full Russian and drink it straight but life has to have some enjoyment and I like to enjoy the taste of my alcohol so for me that's the trade off .. ive tracked the effect on my body and joints and even fat and I can guarantee for me sugar has a far more negative effect than the small amount of sweeteners I use ...
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That may be the case for you, but if @ComfySofa is type 2 pre-diabetic he should definitely avoid processed sugar and artificial sweeteners. The condition can be sent into reverse with the right diet, or develop into full type 2 with the wrong one.
 
Today after waiting for the fog to clear it turned out to be quite nice and the sun came out. So after checking the Harley hadn't sumped and checked the primary oil level all was well.:)
So rode up to Tesco then home the long way along riverside park, there was a bloke pushing his realy nice flathead Harley along the path. So i stopped to see if i could help and he said it's a fuel blockage and said he's ok. It's obviously something that's happened before so i rode off, beautiful bike though.
The weather is meant to be the same tomorrow weather wise so hopefully get out again.:giggle:
 
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WAYNE said:
Today after waiting for the fog to clear it turned out to be quite nice and the sun came out. So after checking the Harley hadn't sumped and checked the primary oil level all was well.:)
So rode up to Tesco then home the long way along riverside park, there was a bloke pushing his realy nice flathead Harley along the path. So i stopped to see if i could help and he said it's a fuel blockage and said he's ok. It's obviously something that's happened before so i rode off, beautiful bike though.
The weather is meant to be the same tomorrow weather wise so hopefully get out again.:giggle:
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Probably just needed a 'gentle' tap with a hammer to dislodge the blockage.
 
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