10 Ways To Easily Reduce Your SUGAR Intake

Have you ever wondered if sugar is the worst thing for your diet? It’s not! If you can eat sugar and lose weight or gain muscle? You can! Should you reduce your sugar intake? It won’t hurt you!

The goal of this post is not to make you completely eliminate it but instead to help you reduce your sugar intake

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Derek Howes is a personal trainer and chef with over a decade of experience in the gym and kitchen. Derek, who is also known as The Protein Chef on his blog and YouTube channel shows his viewers every week that food doesn’t need to be boring or repetitive, it’s all about balance, moderation, and having the knowledge to change things up.

[jordanyoung]

I freaking love this channel!!!! U have the best options and recipes the only one on YouTube I trust !!!

[shawntrivett]

Derek could you perhaps come up with some ideas on dressings?

[AspireWu]

Your channel has been incredible helpful for me in the kitchen and you have got me cooking much better alternatives. I eat a lot of the stuff you make on here daily sometimes. Keel up the great work.

[najimusa]

Apple cider vinegar from Bragg helped curb my sugar craving. Highly recommended! 👌

[ronaldrampersad]

Good tips, I'm from Trinidad an it's sometimes called "sweet drink"

[CJ_Pharaoh]

I've stopped stocking sugar. I instead replaced it with jaggery. Much more value, nutrition wise, but still doesn't mean it's a freebie.
And IMHO making peanut butter yourself at home is not only cheaper but waay more satisfying.
You get to lick the mixer dry!!! 😋

[lisaheavener]

Nice! Also watch out for those things that turn into sugar after they are introduced to our digestive system like starch.

[Manwithoutties]

Is it ok to consume 3-4 servings of fruit a day? I always blend blueberries and strawberries for my protein smoothie with nonfat yogurt and oats

[rileykelly]

Hot sauce is the only condiment I use. Almost or sometimes no calories and helps stimulate thermogenesis

[danielaxc]

I recommend Sinisterlabs if you're looking for a good protein bar with 30 g's of protein and a relatively low sugar content. Their cookies are good too but the carbs are a turnoff for many.

[greentruckwa]

I call it a soda. That was my biggest struggle when kicking the sugar habit. I'm diabetic now because of it. The Soda Stream gave me the ability to make my own soda at home and I flavor it with lemon and lime or a root beer extract. Favorite dessert is cheesecake. I also found Monk Fruit and Stevia as great sugar substitutes. And after 6 years, my A1C has dropped substantially. It is a marathon indeed. Absolutely love your channel!! Your No Powder Protein Shakes are still my favorite 😋 🙌 💪

[heatherdominguez-leal]

I've heard carbonated drinks being called various things. In the plain states, it is referred to as pop. In southern states, specifically TX, they call it coke (then at that point they ask if you want dr pepper, diet coke, coke, etc lol)

[SailorYuki]

Just a FYI, reducing sugar from baking is a bad idea if you want your cakes and cookies to end up golden brown and have certain texture to them. The less sugar you use, the less firm the batter will be and it also helps with the browning. Your cookies will end up looking raw and your cake batter will be far too runny and the texture of the cake will be off. All ingredients in a recepie are there with the specific ammounts to get the best, desired, result.
The best way to cut sugar from baking is not baking anything with surgar. Unless you can replace it with Stevia or honey. Sugar to baking is like salt to cooking. You can't do without.
Reducing might work to certain point, just be mindfull that the end result may vary.

Wheat flower, or most flowers can be cut in half and replaced with potato starch. Makes your cakes super moist and fluffy. Just repalce half the flower with potato starch and you'll have fluffy and moist cake every time.

[angiejones]

Here in Tennessee all soda; excluding SunDrop, is called a coke we at times refer to soda as a cold drink. Sundrop we say Sundrop. For those of you that can’t buy Sundrop in your state, Sundrop would be what y’all call a soda too. It’s just different 😋. It is my hardest thing to give up. There is nothing like an ice cold Sundrop on a hot summer day. I’m here to hopefully find a way to give it up.

[zzdesolatezz]

I'm allergic to sugar and I haven't eaten it in years (at least on purpose) thx for the vid!

[littleravendesigns]

Sugar is definitely my bad habit and trying to find alternatives because I know I will never kick that habit.

[julier]

Down here in Texas, it's soda but I call it garbage...Lol

[Got_it]

I got messing around and decorated my jars of ingredients with pictures instead of words...for example I drew a flower on the flour jar. On the sugar jar I drew a skull and crossbones. 🌸☠️ Ehhh...who wants to live forever anyway? 😎

[elitecombatfitnesscentral]

If you're a bodybuilder and you want to stay away from sugar you can stop drinking 99.9% of all the whey protein and protein shakes on the Market; most if not all have sugar in them to make them palatable... and not just a small amount a very large amount