About The Sugar Free Diet

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The Sugar Free diet aims to be a diet that is not like 'typical diets'. It is not designed to encourage calorie counting or unhealthy deprivation. (I Quit Sugar, 2014) The sugar free diet involves removing all added sugar from a persons diet. There are two forms this diet can take; an "extreme" version and a more lenient version. The extreme form involves restricting all added sugar and fruit and vegetables that contain natural sugars from your diet whereas the lenient form restricts all added sugars and processed foods that contain sugar, however allow fresh fruit and vegetables in the diet. (NewsLifeMedia, 2013) There have been many interpretations of the diet in the last few years and a quick Google of the ‘sugar free diet’ will provide you with many ‘I quit sugar’ stories, books and programs to help you quit sugar. Sarah Wilson is a well-known blogger and journalist who quit sugar in 2011, initially as an experiment to discuss in her weekly newspaper column. Her 8-week program is a combination of the extreme and lenient forms of this diet. In the first 1-2 weeks of her quitting sugar 8 week program involve removing all sugar from your diet, including fruit and vegetables, processed foods containing sugar and added sugar and honey. After the first 1-2 weeks fruit and vegetables can be slowly added back into the diet. Her aim to introduce people to a healthy nutritious diet and her program provides clients with recipes to make sugar free versions of classic recipes. (I Quit Sugar, 2014)