Hi everyone, I am new and excited and looking forward to the future.

I have been aware of David's work for some time now mainly through the media and it all seems to make so much sense. Then late November 2012 I saw an ex Doctor, one of my favourites, and he saw I had my Kindle with me and said you have to get Sweet Poison by David Gillespie (he has never lead me in the wrong direction yet so I did). I have it on my Kindle and in paperback. Diabetes runs in my family and I have diet controlled type 2, I was diagnosed in 2006 and because I don’t add sugar to anything and I swap it with substitute sweeteners in cooking (or should I say use to) where I can and my blood sugar readings have been good for years but the weight is still the same, I also followed a Low GI diet. I haven’t taken sugar in anything to my knowledge,(as David points out) since I was 12yrs old (I can taste even a few grains in my coffee, it is ABSOLUTELY AWFUL) and I don’t have a sweet tooth at all, so, I didn’t think I was getting much sugar until I read Sweet Poison. I have read all but my husband is half a book behind me, as a sugar user he is very impressed and is alredy loosing his taste for sweetness. We have been cutting the hidden sugars to and are heading to be completely sugar free very soon, I have de-sugared (my new word) my pantry and started re-stocking sugar free.

 

Pat

Great to be on line with today's blogs.  I had a dream as a child of about 9 years old.  I was (in my dream) ingesting sugar and the more I tasted the worse it became on my taste buds.  On waking up I told my mother she was never to put sugar in anything I drank, specifically in coffee which was then seen to be OK by her for me provided she added sugar!  Tea never had sugar in it because of my parents' particular dislike of sweetened tea.  So from that dream onwards sugar was never added to anything I drank.  However, I continued to eat the damn stuff!  Well into my 70s now and weight slowly coming up, and my husband diagnosed with the onset of diabetes (also in his 70s), we heard David on the radio being interviewed on classic FM with Margaret Throsby.  So that was IT!  We bought and read all the books and have now eliminated sugar.  Glucose can be a good subsitute e.g. making bread to activate the yeast.  My weight has stablised to mid-50 ks.  Husband has the figure he had at 20!  (High 60s k).  NOW A NEW CHALLENGE.
My 10 year old grand-daughter is getting weight on.  (I never thought to see her so plump after she was breast fed for 2 years so there is something else here).  I have lent my daughter the Sweet Poison Quit Plan and now we will see if she follows the quitting of all sugar and what results... hope to keep you informed as the weeks pass by.  Hassanah Wilkinson