I am cutting out sugar from my daily food as part of trying out the Keto diet. I have been wanting to try out Keto for a long while now, ever since I heard of a couple of colleagues at work losing their weight due to it. I read about it and read about it but I was worried about the sugar. How do I drink my coffee without sugar? Well there is sugar free stuff and substitutes and there is also the butter coffee or bulletproof coffee. I tried the bulletproof coffee yesterday evening but didn’t like it. Today morning I just cut out the sugar and I am ok with it.
Get started cutting down on sugar with these tips:
- Toss the table sugar (white and brown), syrup, honey and molasses. Cut back on the amount of sugar added to things you eat or drink regularly like cereal, pancakes, coffee or tea. Try cutting the usual amount of sugar you add by half and wean down from there.
- Swap out the soda. Water is best, but if you want something sweet to drink or are trying to lose weight, diet drinks can be a better choice than sugary drinks.
- Eat fresh, frozen, dried or canned fruits. Choose fruit canned in water or natural juice. Avoid fruit canned in syrup, especially heavy syrup. Drain and rinse in a colander to remove excess syrup or juice.
- Compare food labels and choose products with the lowest amounts of added sugars. Dairy and fruit products will contain some natural sugars. Added sugars can be identified in the ingredients list.
- Add fruit. Instead of adding sugar to cereal or oatmeal, try fresh fruit (bananas, cherries or strawberries) or dried fruit (raisins, cranberries or apricots).
- Cut the serving back. When baking cookies, brownies or cakes, cut the sugar called for in your recipe by one-third to one-half. Often you won’t notice the difference.
- Try extracts. Instead of adding sugar in recipes, use extracts like almond, vanilla, orange or lemon.
- Replace it completely. Enhance foods with spices instead of sugar. Try ginger, allspice, cinnamon or nutmeg.
- Substitute. Switch out sugar with unsweetened applesauce in recipes (use equal amounts).
- Limit Non-nutritive Sweeteners. If you are trying to lose weight, a temporary fix to satisfying your sweet tooth may be with non-nutritive sweeteners. But watch out! Make sure that swapping sugary options for non-nutritive sweeteners now doesn’t lead to eating more later.
Tips shared from Heart.Org
I did the same thing years ago and trust me, you will get used to it and eventually you will dislike the taste of sugar in your coffee! The coffee tastes much better!
Hey Rosie, thanks for stopping by. As of now it is tough but yeah I expect it to get adjusted after a few weeks.