For a while after you consume sugary products for a significant period of time, you are not tasting quite authentically either.
If you spent, say, a month in ketosis, things taste a lot better. And when you go back to sugar, it tastes spectacular, which evokes an interest in having more of it.
We do have a boat load of alternative sweeteners now that come close, but a lot of them (Stevia, Ace-K) have really iffy aftertastes, and not all of them work the same in cooking (Allulose used as an alternative to sugar for caramel, but other sweeteners like Erythritol don't, Erythritol is good for ice cream but it makes it hard whereas monk fruit or otherwise may make it softer, etc.)
Sugar is legitimately addictive and destructive to your body in many ways, but in reality it's not even strictly sugar doing this.
It's high fructose corn syrup, the true culinary culprit to the rise in diabetes.
Used in too many things, extremely concentrated empty carbs. Your body hates that shit.
Coming off ketosis, I would say it doesn’t taste fantastic but rather way overbearing and sickeningly sweet. You definitely get a sense of sugar poisoning and things like chocolate are disgustingly sweet.
Indeed, and my experience is that the more you place yourself in a state where you burn ketones, the stronger your desire for sugar ramps up exponentially. I always break my keto fasts with natural sugar, for example. My desire for it is staggering.
I'm the opposite, after I cut my sugar consumption way down and did the keto thing, I no longer craved sugar like I once did. I now crave fatty meat and vegetables. If I do eat a sugary thing, it gives me a sour stomach as if I drank alcohol (I quit that too) and I swear not to eat that stuff again. I will have bread once in a great while and that is it as far as grain carbs.
My break fast comprises banana based smoothies, preferably sweet, ripe banana. Of note: I am not an excessive sugar eater. I just crave sugar after fasting.
Sugar is extremely addictive, in a lot of ways.
For a while after you consume sugary products for a significant period of time, you are not tasting quite authentically either.
If you spent, say, a month in ketosis, things taste a lot better. And when you go back to sugar, it tastes spectacular, which evokes an interest in having more of it.
We do have a boat load of alternative sweeteners now that come close, but a lot of them (Stevia, Ace-K) have really iffy aftertastes, and not all of them work the same in cooking (Allulose used as an alternative to sugar for caramel, but other sweeteners like Erythritol don't, Erythritol is good for ice cream but it makes it hard whereas monk fruit or otherwise may make it softer, etc.)
Sugar is legitimately addictive and destructive to your body in many ways, but in reality it's not even strictly sugar doing this.
It's high fructose corn syrup, the true culinary culprit to the rise in diabetes.
Used in too many things, extremely concentrated empty carbs. Your body hates that shit.
Coming off ketosis, I would say it doesn’t taste fantastic but rather way overbearing and sickeningly sweet. You definitely get a sense of sugar poisoning and things like chocolate are disgustingly sweet.
Watermelon juice tastes nice though.
This.
Sugar shorts out your entire metabolism.
I have friends that move to the US from All over the world and they are fucking terrified by the sugar intake and they can’t eat the food.
Do yourself a favor and try this:
I’m not kidding.
Indeed, and my experience is that the more you place yourself in a state where you burn ketones, the stronger your desire for sugar ramps up exponentially. I always break my keto fasts with natural sugar, for example. My desire for it is staggering.
I'm the opposite, after I cut my sugar consumption way down and did the keto thing, I no longer craved sugar like I once did. I now crave fatty meat and vegetables. If I do eat a sugary thing, it gives me a sour stomach as if I drank alcohol (I quit that too) and I swear not to eat that stuff again. I will have bread once in a great while and that is it as far as grain carbs.
My wife as well.
My break fast comprises banana based smoothies, preferably sweet, ripe banana. Of note: I am not an excessive sugar eater. I just crave sugar after fasting.