David Gillespie

20 Jun 2010 9:32 PM

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Hi David,

Read about your book in Lawyers Weekly and had to grab a copy as it made so much sense. I am a 39 year old male Lawyer, high stress and high sugar seem to go hand in hand for me. I am generally pretty healthy, though after a family heart scare about 4 years ago (my Mum), I really cranked my excercise regime, mainly running. I ran a few half marathons and have now completed 4 consecutive Oxfam Trailwalkers (100km). So you would think I would have shed the kilos. Wrong. Each year I have put on about 2 kilos. The more I excercise, the more I eat. And endurance excercise means you consume drink and food with really high fructose levels, including heaps of fresh fruit which I thought I could eat endlessly. All this was driving me to despair until I read your book and realised that excercise wasn't the issue, it was sugar.

So, I have started on a "as close as possible to fructose free" diet. The reason I say this is because determining whether food has fructose or not is difficult, and I love fresh fruit and vegetables. Watch this space!

Cheers

Grant

22 Jun 2010 2:45 AM

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Grant Long wrote:
Hi David,

Read about your book in Lawyers Weekly and had to grab a copy as it made so much sense. I am a 39 year old male Lawyer, high stress and high sugar seem to go hand in hand for me. I am generally pretty healthy, though after a family heart scare about 4 years ago (my Mum), I really cranked my excercise regime, mainly running. I ran a few half marathons and have now completed 4 consecutive Oxfam Trailwalkers (100km). So you would think I would have shed the kilos. Wrong. Each year I have put on about 2 kilos. The more I excercise, the more I eat. And endurance excercise means you consume drink and food with really high fructose levels, including heaps of fresh fruit which I thought I could eat endlessly. All this was driving me to despair until I read your book and realised that excercise wasn't the issue, it was sugar.

So, I have started on a "as close as possible to fructose free" diet. The reason I say this is because determining whether food has fructose or not is difficult, and I love fresh fruit and vegetables. Watch this space!

Cheers

Grant

Welcome Grant! - Thanks for telling your story! Please keep us in the loop, I'd love to see how you go with removing the fructose!

Cheers

David.

02 Jul 2010 8:08 AM

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Hi Grant, (& David)

I would also love to hear how you go.

I'm also a runner, training for my third marathon this September. I cut out fructose completely from my diet (after reading Sweet Poison) from January of this year through to March and instantly felt completely empowered to make good food choices (the urge to overindulge vanished!). I was amazed at how easily it became after a while to resist the white stuff and my appetite came under control. I felt the slimmest I've ever been and as a result running was easier (less impact).

In March I competed in a trail marathon where the only foods on offer were the usual fructose-laden isotonic drinks, powerbars and gels. It gave me a HUGE energy hit (after being off it for so long) that it was a bit of a slippery slide back to thinking that fructose was ok for me and I've been allowing it (in varying degrees) back into my diet.

I'm back at the stage where I'm feeling utterly lousy and out of control when it comes to eating so I have ordered book#2 and vowed once again to cut it out completely. It really was the best health decision I've made in a long time and I look forward to feeling as great as I did in the first three months of the year.

I love this forum as we can all encourage each other and hold each other accountable.

All the best & I look forward to hearing about your progress.

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02 Jul 2010 8:55 AM

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Oh - and I should mention that after that amazing sugar high (during the marathon) I experienced a colossal sugar crash/migraine that lasted for the following two days. Could be a mix of things including the stress(?) of the marathon but I could feel that the explosion of sugar was just toxic. Not sure why I let it creep back into my diet ... if only it didn't taste so good. :(

05 Jul 2010 8:08 AM

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anonymous wrote:Oh - and I should mention that after that amazing sugar high (during the marathon) I experienced a colossal sugar crash/migraine that lasted for the following two days. Could be a mix of things including the stress(?) of the marathon but I could feel that the explosion of sugar was just toxic. Not sure why I let it creep back into my diet ... if only it didn't taste so good. :(

Gosh I can so relate to that addict's amnesia that we get just before we pick up the drug. Oh, it will be alright! Everyone else is having it and they look okay. Just one and then I'll stop (yeah right!)

I'm about 2.5 weeks clean and sober (yes, it does feel like that) from sugar and coming up to my 2nd day on 2 pieces of fruit a day (and I didn't realise that would make such a difference). This is not the first time I've been sugar free, so I have relapsed in the past, but David's findings and book have helped me feel affirmed enough to keep going, with support and scientific validation.

Now I can't wait for my skin to clear up - it's been shocking (and I'm nearly 40 - told old for acne!) - and I know it will because it has in the past.

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