If you have read the title of this article you are probably wondering: “But how? Only three kilos? ”, Yes an Irish boy lost three kilos of weight (two of which of fat) simply by saying goodbye to sugar for a month . They may seem like few, but the point is that aside from avoiding sugar, he hasn’t been on a diet . Throughout January the Irish journalist Darragh Murphy conducted a curious experiment on himself : he eliminated all sugar from his life, eating a balanced diet (and eating carbohydrates, he eliminated only simple sugars) but saying goodbye to sugar, honey and all the supermarket products that contain it and all the foods that they contained in generalover 5 grams of sugar per 100 grams, for example also apples and bananas.
Just to make you understand what she gave up in thirty days, here is a list: all sweets, breakfast cereals, biscuits, candies, various types of sugar and sweetener, rusks, bars of all kinds, sauces such as ketchup, instant soups, industrial drinks, many products also savory baked goods, many canned products (such as legumes, which may contain sugar), spray cream, ice creams, some frozen also savory, spreads, jams, some types of spreadable cheeses, chips and potatoes, flour white, corn flour, rice flour, white pizza, white rice, white pasta, filled pasta, rice milk, sugary fruit, some types of alcohol and some cured meats, preserves. Instead of refined carbohydrates he ate whole grain, instead of sugary fruit he ate citrus and berries, kiwis, strawberries. And in one month of this diet he lost 3 kilos, being able to eat everything else: whole carbohydrates, bitter chocolate and cocoa, vegetables, proteins, all kinds of fat.