GS sugar-cut challenge!

Lifestyle Health & Fitness
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The added-sugar to begin with. Or skipping the sweets may be? :hypo:

Not that this is anyway intimidating rather more of a invite to everyone to lets start working on our health together.

Basically, the idea came from the original thread :
https://gupshup.org/forum/lifestyle/health-fitness/16681970-added-sugars-and-depression-there-s-a-link-according-to-this-new-study

I think we all know that more sugar is extremely unhealthy and NOW is the time to take some actions rather than just talking.
:sehrysh:

And trust me its not a easy process as I for one have a sweet tooth myself. Just cant hold myself back but may be if we all do it together we’ll acomplish something? Atleast one health goal will be achieved :slight_smile:

So, to make it easy for everyone lets divide it into three categories:

A) Cut added sugar in half. i.e. whatever you are taking now, start taking it in half.

B) Take sugar in coffee/tea etc but NO mithai (or dessert per se):chai:

C) Go cold-turkey. i.e. No added sugar at all. No processed food that contains sugar like even lemon cake, muffin etc.

:jhanj:

Pick one. And lets do it together. :cheer:

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I shall join after I’ve consumed the junk food I already have :blush:

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i will win, i dont use sugar at all

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ok lets hear what junk food you got. I’ll tell you which one to throw away. Pick a category which you’ll act on :bailan:

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i cut it out totally before getting married, that was the only way to develop and maintain a six-pack. I also dont eat rice or bread anymore.

take notice @Southie

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I don’t take coffee/tea so no sugar there. I have desserts once in a while. I have some wafers, chips and chocolate milk :blush:

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Do you take your daily carbs from veggies then ?
I take enough carbs on a daily basis but I lack in my protein intake.
I’m working on increasing my muscle percentage but it hasn’t increased yet :hinna:

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yes I take the carbs from other plant sources, but not rice or wheat.

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weight training is the best exercise a girl can take, contrary to popular belief, weight training has a leaning thinning effect on women’s physique with overall increase in strength, tone and endurance, superior to cardio, Pilates, yoga and other girly stuff

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I do weight training and yoga mostly but my muscle percentage is stuck at 22.2% :bummer: I figured its due to my insufficient protein intake so I have decided to seriously work on that. Yesterday was day 2 of having enough protein.

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I don’t want to give up on rice or wheat:no:

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lol tell me about it, being a desi it was probably the most difficult thing i did, but you dont have to develop a six-pack so its ok girl

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Why do we need to cut out rice and wheat for a six pack? Isn’t it a combo of low fat% and high muscle% ?

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well for me only that works! there may or may not be a scientific explanation, basically your body fat proportion should be very low, to have virtually no fat under the skin over rectus abdominis muscle. a significant proportion of calorie from wheat and rice (naturally refined carbs) gets converted into fat

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My body fat is 10.5% so I’m fine in that department and don’t need to cut out rice and wheat alhumdulillah. It’s only the muscle mass which I need to gain. I’m aiming at getting my target result before ramadhan In Sha Allah. Let’s see how that goes.
@SID_NY , I’ll reduce my sugar after 2 weeks In Sha Allah.

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you can easily carve out your abs with this low body fat percentage, but again six-pack is more of a guy thing

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That’s sexist :hoonh:

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nothing sexist about it, too low a fat percentage is not good for your female hormonal system

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Nops , no waiting for 2 weeks. Start now. Start from cutting down soda (coke etc) :naraz: