The period in which I totally excluded any form of simple sugar from my life, reducing its consumption to half a fruit (sour or not very ripe) per day was the moment when I was most sick of all. Indeed, I should say the moments , since I have had a sugar-free diet on several occasions: with the various protein diets, one more extreme than the other; with the ketogenic diet; with the low glycemic index diet which in its most orthodox form meant banishing sugar and any form of refined carbohydrate from my life ; and finally, Sarah Wilson ‘s sugar-free diet, which teaches how to do without sugar thanks to natural sweeteners such as stevia, the elimination of all refined foods, the reduction of fruit to less than moderate consumption and so on.

I tried the latter for a few months when it first came out, in 2012. And it raised my blood sugar. At the moment, I still haven’t been able to give myself an explanation of how my blood sugar (which in my case has always been naturally low, in the sense that since I was a child I have been a hypoglycemic subject) almost reached a stage of hyperglycemia by eliminating sugar from my diet (and most of the carbohydrates) for months.  Stress? Could be. I only know that by returning to a more “human” diet and abandoning any form of orthorexia, the blood sugar returned to normal, the metabolism rose, I was able to eat a little at a time like a decent being, that is, by ingesting two thousand calories a day and staying, surprised, lean, and fitter than when I followed these diets. This for about 3 years