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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by chrismealy on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:03AM (#9169424)
Nine months ago I quit sugar to see if that would help my chronic sinus congestion (it did). I had a killer headache for about two weeks, then I was fine. After my pants started falling down I noticed I'd lost a ton of weight. I lost 25 pounds and I still eat a ton of carbs.
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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by doctorfoo on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:00AM (#9170435)
That's interesting - I have chronic congestion. How much sugar did you eat before you quit? What did "quitting" mean to you? (Just no sweets/cakes/biscuits, or did you go more extreme - no chinese food!?)
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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by chrismealy on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:54AM (#9176104)
I didn't think it was that much ... per day maybe couple of cookies, or a chocolate croissant, or hot chocolate. But almost always some kind of treat everyday. When I quit my nose cleared up in about 5 days, but the sinus headaches lasted another two weeks. That's when I knew something weird was going on.

If I have almost any dessert now I'll have a sinus headache the next day. I can get away with a teaspoon of honey in the morning and that's about it. Berries are ok but I'm still not sure about fruit (bananas are definitely not ok). But I can eat good bread three times a day and I'm fine.

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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by doctorfoo on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:40PM (#9228143)
Thanks for the information. I'm definitely going to try this.
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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by peteretep on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:17AM (#9169463)
Yeah, I lost a ton of weight too. Felt great. Just wish I could have stuck to it.
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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by radicalbyte on Monday March 09, 2015 @04:54PM (#9173990)
Did you guys just drop sugar (i.e. sugar, honey, cake, biscuits, candy etc), all high-GI carbs or all carbs?
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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by peteretep on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:47PM (#9174598)
Just sugar for me, carbs were fine (although I wasn't eating very many high GI carbs anyway)
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