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MY YEARS AS A FOOD ADDICT

I was a heavy eater by the time I was 5 years old, only it was called a "healthy appetite" in those days, and they called me cute and chubby. By the time I was 18 I was a compulsive overeater. At 5'6", my weight ranged between 125 to 149, but only because I spent part of almost every month on some diet or another. I must have gained and lost more than 500 pounds on various crash diets before I turned 40.I could eat 3 half gallons of ice cream a week and 3 candy bars at the movies. At my favorite Oriental buffet I would start with 6 egg rolls and fill my plate (and myself) so much that the owners lost money. No matter what diet I tried, I dreamed of my next “fix”… boxes of cookies, bags of potato chips or maybe a whole pizza.I’ve always been an upbeat person with a good marriage, two children, and close friends, but on my 40th birthday I was feeling depressed. I took a walk on the beach and realized that my compulsive eating had to stop. I decided that I wanted peace more than pizza and vowed to put my extensive dieting knowledge to work. I re-read all of my material on the subject and designed a way of eating that would satisfy me and finally curb my appetite. My determination paid off in spades and changed my life. The numbers on the scale remained below 130 and before I knew it, I was helping curious friends and neighbors. That was the beginning of a long and exciting career founding and directing Diet Masters, teaching dieting classes and low calorie cooking and even self publishing 6 dieting books. Best of all, my weight has been stable between 124 and 129 for 39 years while I eat food that I enjoy.

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Friday, June 8, 2012

14 WORDS THAT MEAN THE SAME AS SUGAR



MANY PEOPLE WHO READ THE INGREDIENTS ON THE PACKAGE DO NOT REALIZE THAT THE FOLLOWING WORDS MEAN EXACTLY THE SAME THING: SUGAR

When you read the word Sugars listed as a part of the ingredients on the package you 'think that you know that if it is not listed as the first ingredient it might not be high in sugar'.

The following two examples will explain my point.
1. Angel Food Cake Mix...140 claories for 1/12th of a cake..Sugars 23....In this case, sugar is the only product that is used that contains sugar in the recipe and it is listed first. Sugar is 4 calories per gram which tells us that the sugar in the small slice of cake is 92 calories which is about 2 tablespoons.

2. Nature Valley Oats 'n Honey ...190 calories for a 2 bar smallish package and 12 grams of sugar. (Once we open the package it is a 'given' that we eat them both). In this case sugar is not listed first. Whole Grain Oats which sounds very healthy is listed first and Sugar is slipped in after it followed by Brown Sugar Syrup and Honey. The total sugar calories for the pack is 48 which is just under a tablespoon that is 50..This tells us that about 25% of the calories are from sugar.

THE 14 WORDS THAT MEAN SUGAR

corn syrup...fructose...fruit juice concentrate...glucose...dextrose...high-fructose corn syrup.....brown sugar...honey...maltose...lactose...molasses...raw sugar...sucrose...invert sugar
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