Have you ever been on a diet?

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Originally Posted by ecchi

Now that I could not cope with, I am seriously addicted to the stuff. But I am curious, caffeine is fat, sugar, and calorie free, so how does giving it up help you loose weight?

If you have issues with sugar, like I do, caffeine can cause your sugar to yo-yo more than normal. I gave up caffeine about 3 months ago and WOW do I speed if I have any, lol.

I tried atkins diet for awhile, lost weight. then I went through CEA-HOW (compulsive eaters anonymous) which is a 12 step program and their diet is fanatic. I lost the weight, but you are basically eating about 1,000 calories a day. I was always hungry. No flour. No sugar. you weigh and measure everything. Very fat restricted.

When I went off that, I slowly gained up to about 10# over what I am now. Tried atkins again, my cholesterol went up to almost 300. So now I'm back to vegetarian and my cholesterol is the lowest its been in my life.

I'm finding out I have to cut out all high carb / sugar junk foods or my sugar goes too high. Even things like too much brown rice can do it. It is tough to lose the weight now, since if I eat too many carbs, I pour insulin into my system, that makes your body super efficient at fat storing, and I'll gain back the last 5# I lost.

So my diet today is a long-range style of eating that you can find in the book / website ultrametabolism.com by Dr. Mark Hyman. I am working on exercising more too. If I stick with that, I lose weight, and I don't feel deprived at all. It is a "whole foods" diet, eating foods in natural or as close to natural form as you can.

JackDaniels, you might want to pick up a cheap blood gloucose test kit. Eat something that has sugar / carbs, check your sugar 1/2 hr, 1 hr after and se where it goes. If too high (over 200 is diabetic, over about 170 is pre) then know you can't eat that. It helps finding the foods that is triggering that and avoiding them, so you don't keep producing excess insulin and turning your body into a fat storing machine.