Haha I'm cutting sugar tomorrow. Tomorrow, not today, not yesterday, but tomorrow. That way, I can finish the leftover candy first *smart*

Nice... good luck!

Yeah, try finding a simple loaf of store bought bread that doesn't have high fructose corn syrup in it. It's maddening.

Yeah, if the government is going to keep subsidizing corn farmers, they should at least force them to make fuel out of it instead syrup.

Yep. I wanted to start eating fiber-rich cereal, and the richest, Fiber 1, gives you the choice of "sweetened with aspartame" or "sweetened with HFCS".

If five grams of fiber per bowl is enough, I'd highly recommend Kashi Heart-to-Heart. It's tasty and pretty darn healthy. Just about all the Kashi cereals are pretty good.

I've heard that one of the best ways, and easiest, is to shop at Mexican delis. Most of the products there have pure sugar and none of that high fructose corn syrup crap hidden away in it. Smucker's also put out a "natural" peanut butter that lists the ingredients as "peanuts, salt."
I'm still trying to eat healthy bread wise by cutting out starched flour and high fructose corn syrup but the alternatives that I've found taste like sweet vinegar.
Tell us more as you progress!

We've been eating the Skippy Natural, which is pretty similar, but also lists palm oil and sugar.

I'll definitely check out the Mexican delis. That's a great idea.

I cut out all the carbs. No bread, no potato's, etc. Swithched from sugar to Splenda. I was at 217 and am now 198. I feel a lot better.

That's cool. I can't quite make that step yet. But I'm trying to lessen the damage by going with whole grain breads and pastas.

Now if I could just stop eating the leftover Halloween candy....

...which is, of course, nothing but solidified high fructose corn syrup.

The Mexican Deli idea above is spot on. While you're there, grab a Mexican Coke and give it a sample-- the difference in taste is stunning.

Yeah, Mexican Coke rocks. It tastes like childhood.

That is a good start. Just to make it more complicated, you want to avoid cottonseed oil as well, since it is loaded with pesticides (it is not a food crop, so the rules are not the same, and then they resell the oil to make a little extra money on cotton production).

Aw, man, I know I've seen that listed on some of the things I'm allowing myself to eat....

*snaps fingers*

I didn't get a single trick or treater. So I did the right thing, and returned all my halloween candy...

Haha.... that is an awesome display of willpower.

It's hard to cut out hydrogenated oils and corn syrup, especially with prepared foods, but it's worth it-- I feel much better. Less sluggish.

I'd be willing to bet there's not much of either in dim sum.

Mmmmmm.... cannot... wait... for... dim sum!!!

....but...why?

If you're bumming (heh..) about all the things you *can't * have focus instead on how great the things are that you can have! It's a grass is greener/class is half full sorta thing, but it works.

I too have been cutting hydrogenated fats and the *huge* amount of sugar (all kinds not just HFCS) from my diet. Seems to be too many casual relationships between dietary intake and ype 2 Diabetes.

Good luck! Keep up the good work, Monkey!