Whats your sugar intake?

ardinn

So - This day 2 weeks ago I stopped drinking Coke, Lucozade and red bull.

I would drink 2 cans/bottles of each a day easily, sometimes twice that! So, Considering Red Bull has 6.5 teaspoons of sugar, Lucozade has 12.5 and a bottle of coke has 16 thats 70 teaspoons of sugar a day!!!

So in 14 days I have reduced my sugar intake by 980 teaspoons or 1960 teaspoons per month.

Thats One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixtyty tea spoons of sugar per month.

Whats your sugar intake through soft drinks?


I still take 3 sugars in my tea and I'll be fucked if ye think im gonna stop doin that!!!

Gran Hermano

Diabetes forum?

Birneybau

Less than yours anyway. A demon for a Kit Kat or 2 chocolate digestives with a cup of tea (taken without sugar) but drink sparkling water instead of soft drinks. Full of sodium apparently so you can't win.

Generic Dreadhead

ardinn wrote: »

So - This day 2 weeks ago I stopped drinking Coke, Lucozade and red bull.

I would drink 2 cans/bottles of each a day easily, sometimes twice that!

Well holy fcuk..... that's a lot of Sugar

anncoates

One bowl of Special K a day so off the scale, unfortunately.

Gongoozler

Don't know where you're getting your information from, but you're wrong. not that I'm standing up for the fizz companies, just you are. Better to talk in terms of grams rather than tea spoons anyway. Maximum sugar you should be getting per day I read is 100g.

I don't drink non-diet soft drinks. I generally limit my intake as much as possible when it comes to added sugar. Though I am very partial to chocolate. But still manage to limit that pretty well. It's the jarred sauces you have to look out for.

jimgoose

I don't drink any soft-drinks, and take no sugar in tea or coffee. I'm probably getting some order of magnitude more sugar than I should be anyway, thanks to asshole food manufacturers.

biko

I don't drink much soft drinks, maybe one or two per week.
Rarely take sugar in coffee either.
So all together not much sugar intake besides from what I get in food.

ardinn

Gongoozler wrote: »

Don't know where you're getting your information from, but you're wrong.

A teaspoon is about 4 grams of sugar - after that it's easy as I looked at the labels.

So poo you!!

Also -www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

corner of hells

I bathe in sugar every night , Im pretty sure some of it gets in.

The Moldy Gowl

You're a sick puppy drinking all that crap.

3 spoons in tea??

You're teeth must be wrecked

ardinn

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

You're a sick puppy drinking all that crap.

3 spoons in tea??

You're teeth must be wrecked

They are

I gave up the fags 4 months ago though - they are starting to come back a bit

whiskeyman

None.




I'm sweet enough

Tilly

That's pretty disgusting, Dude!

I dont drink fizzy drinks or any hot drinks with sugar. I dont have a sweet tooth at all.

clappyhappy

Don't drink soft drinks, eat chocolate, ice cream, cakes etc. make all my food from scratch, only sugar I would get is natural sugars from fruit. My sugar intake would be very limited. On a weight loss journey and have lost almost 3 stone in 7 months. Never felt better, still have a few whiskeys though ;)

Dravokivich

clappyhappy wrote: »

Don't drink soft drinks, eat chocolate, ice cream, cakes etc. make all my food from scratch, only sugar I would get is natural sugars from fruit. My sugar intake would be very limited. On a weight loss journey and have lost almost 3 stone in 7 months. Never felt better, still have a few whiskeys though ;)

Keep it up man!

Got much further to go on that?

Mint Aero

I'm gonna be sick!

Eazzah

Gave up drinking calories, that alone has made me lose 15 pounds. I drink mainly water and sugar free redbull, I don't crave sugar much.

brevity

My teeth hurt reading that.

Ciaran_B

I drink a pint of Orange and Pineapple mi-wadi everyday. So there's probably a lot in that, even though it's the 'No added sugar one'.

I do notice food in general is much sweeter these days. I had a pizza delivered last Saturday that was almost inedible, the tomato sauce was so sweet.

ardinn

Mint Aero wrote: »

I'm gonna be sick!

Says the Chocolate Bar!!

clappyhappy

Dravokivich wrote: »

Keep it up man!

Got much further to go on that?

Thanks, just less than 2 stone more to go.

The Peanut

Something will have to be done about the over-indulgence on minerals. Think there's some stat that one can of a mineral a day equates to a stone weight over a year.

ardinn

The Peanut wrote: »

Something will have to be done about the over-indulgence on minerals. Think there's some stat that one can of a mineral a day equates to a stone weight over a year.

I have been drinking that for a long long time - Havnt put on or lost weight for about 7 yrs.

Gongoozler

ardinn wrote: »

A teaspoon is about 4 grams of sugar - after that it's easy as I looked at the labels.

So poo you!!

Also -www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

A teaspoon is 5g, and the bottle you're presumably referring to in the broken link is not a 500ml bottle, which is what I assume you mean by a bottle. A 500ml bottle of coke contains 53g of sugar, which is 10.6 teaspoons.

As I said, I'm not for a minute trying to minimise the crapness of the drink, just correcting the mistakes.

The Peanut

ardinn wrote: »

I have been drinking that for a long long time - Havnt put on or lost weight for about 7 yrs.

I don't mean that everyone will put on a stone - we all have different metabolisms and degrees of exercise - but that the sugar contained when converted to calories, equates to a stone. Again, I could well be wrong, I think I read it somewhere.

Spunge

about 30 grams probably. Cutting out most sugar laden soft drinks i asusme would cut a lot of peoples sugar intake in half or more

Dravokivich

The Peanut wrote: »

Something will have to be done about the over-indulgence on minerals. Think there's some stat that one can of a mineral a day equates to a stone weight over a year.

What you've heard makes a nice snappy motivational poster, but that's about as much use as it's got.

What about everything else that person is consuming?

Too many people when re-evaluating their diet and eating habits tend not to take everything into account. It's never just the 1 thing someone does that leads them to be overweight. It's the result of everything over a long period of time.

The Peanut

Dravokivich wrote: »

What you've heard makes a nice snappy motivational poster, but that's about as much use as it's got.

What about everything else that person is consuming?

Too many people when re-evaluating their diet and eating habits tend not to take everything into account. It's never just the 1 thing someone does that leads them to be overweight. It's the result of everything over a long period of time.

Agreed. I was commenting on minerals as they offer no nutritional value in relation their sugar content. Cutting them out would have zero negative impact on a person's diet.

fussyonion

I love a biscuit or two with a cuppa straight after dinner, but have gone on a mad fruit phase at the moment, so I had tinned peaches and sunflower seeds last night.
Didn't fancy the biscuits after it.

Don't take sugar in tea, which is good as I drink a lot of tea.
Don't eat cereals/porridge etc, so no extra sugar there.
The odd bar of chocolate maybe once a week, that's about it.

frozenfrozen

Tinned peaches are fan ****ing tastic

Spunge

fussyonion wrote: »

I love a biscuit or two with a cuppa straight after dinner, but have gone on a mad fruit phase at the moment, so I had tinned peaches and sunflower seeds last night.
Didn't fancy the biscuits after it.

Don't take sugar in tea, which is good as I drink a lot of tea.
Don't eat cereals/porridge etc, so no extra sugar there.
The odd bar of chocolate maybe once a week, that's about it.

tinned peaches surely has a **** load of sugar.

frozenfrozen

Spunge wrote: »

tinned peaches surely has a **** load of sugar.

42 grams of sugar for a tin

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Low enough I'd say, I don't take sugar in hot drinks, don't really like sweet drinks in general either. Every few weeks or so I'd get a notion for a can of club orange, apart from that it's water, herbal tea, and coffee.

I cook most sauces and stuff from scratch, don't eat white bread, and I'm not a dessert person. I'm a divil for skittles and starburst though, I'd have a couple of packs a week probably. And they might be family packs.

Joe Doe

The fizz in fizzy drink wrecks the bones, the sugars will damage everything else.
Cornflakes is one of the worst for hidden sugar content - look at the 'carbohydrates - of which sugar' data on the back of the packet.

Porridge is the way to go, maybe a dash of honey. Brown sugar perhaps if needed.
Forget about synthetic sweeteners made in a lab, they're even worse.

positron

I gave up on chocolates, chocolate coated brazil nuts etc but I can't stop eating apples, pears, plums etc, I would easily munch a couple of each a day (6-8 fruits a day). I guess I am still addicted to sugar.

Pumpkinseeds

I get very little sugar, savoury things are my vice.

ghogie91

Have ate totally clean for 5 weeks now.

Only sugar in my body is natural themfeelz.jpeg

Insect Overlord

ghogie91 wrote: »

Have ate totally clean for 5 weeks now.

Only sugar in my body is natural themfeelz.jpeg

I'm on Day 5. Hoping to do three weeks sugar and booze-free. Teach me your ways!

Joe Doe

Read the white-coats consider white-sugar as addictive to the brain as the whiter-type of coca-cola.
Same as caffeine, would take about 3-5 days to get off it as a quick-fix.

Tarzana2

Ciaran_B wrote: »

I drink a pint of Orange and Pineapple mi-wadi everyday. So there's probably a lot in that, even though it's the 'No added sugar one'.

If it's a 'no added sugar' cordial, then there's no sugar in it. All the 'no added sugar' ones are basically no calories (like 5 or so per glass) and that wouldn't be the case if there was sugar in them.

Tarzana2

The Peanut wrote: »

Something will have to be done about the over-indulgence on minerals. Think there's some stat that one can of a mineral a day equates to a stone weight over a year.

Well it depends on what else you are eating really.

For example, if a glass of fizzy drink a day doesn't put you over the calories required to maintain your weight then you won't gain anything.

Tarzana2

Joe Doe wrote: »

Forget about synthetic sweeteners made in a lab, they're even worse.

Very little evidence for that actually.

The Backwards Man

I have a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice with my dinner, maybe two or three pieces of fruit during the day.

I don't even have a sugar bowl or a salt cellar in the house, much less anything to put in them. Vile substances.

ceadaoin.

I don't really drink soft drinks that often but I've a very sweet tooth and definitely eat too much sugar. I can't even contemplate going sugar free, and I'm not overweight so it's hard to find the motivation. I think I'm addicted!

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Well it depends on what else you are eating really.

For example, if a glass of fizzy drink a day doesn't put you over the calories required to maintain your weight then you won't gain anything.

I think the point is that the amount of calories in one glass p/d for a year = a stone's worth of calories. So if you drank a glass a day, cut that out and didn't change your intake otherwise you'd lose a stone over a year; if you started drinking a glass a day and didn't cut calories elsewhere you'd gain a stone.

Tarzana2

Aye, but you say that about any calorie dense foodstuff, so it's still inane IMO.

Day Lewin

My sucrose intake must be very low - #smug
I use sweetener in coffee, none in tea, and eat about 1 or 2 ounces of dark chocolate every day. Glass of wine most days, and a small dessert on Sundays. Other than that, all food is cooked from fresh, except bread, maybe - 1 or 2 slices a day, too.
Fizzy pop - diet type only, rare
bickies, cake etc - special occasions only
Packet sauce etc - maybe once a week, max.

And I still don't lose any weight, or gain any - Ageing. Ain't fair. :-(

A small bar of choc and maybe some juice? and icecream of course
I try keeping it below 40g/day though
Sugar in everything ...
An apple would nearly put me over for the day

osarusan

I am eating easter egg chocolate right now.


Sugar intake is generally ok i would say - no sweet drinks, no fizzy drinks, no sugar in tea or coffee, don't really eat jam either.

Chocolate/biscuits are what i am hunting late at night though.

Ghost Buster

Im a skinny 44 year old. Ive always been skinny and have never needed to watch what i eat and consequently when ever Im around cakes, biscuits, an open box of chocolates I would absolutely do the dog on them. Ive been known to scoff an entire pack of gingernuts in a sitting!
Purely on a whim I recently decided to stop eating such things. I felt a bit crap for two days but now my energy levels are waaaaaaaaay up and i feel much better and zero temptation to binge.
Ummmmmmm. cant remember if i had a point....a gloat will do.:D