How much sugar is in your favourite treats?

We all know too much sugar in our diet is bad for the waistline and our health, but really how much sugar is in some of the most common treats we might choose to eat.

Well let's take a look. Information from Sugarstacks.com

McDonald's Chocolate Shake
 21 oz (medium) shake
 Sugars, total:  111g
 Calories, total:  770 
 Calories from sugar: 444 

Nutrigrain Cereal Bar, Strawberry
 1 Bar (37g)
 Sugars, total:  13g
 Calories, total:  140 
 Calories from sugar: 52

Ketchup 
 1 serving (1 Tbs/17g)
 Sugars, total:  4g
 Calories, total:  20 
 Calories from sugar: 16

Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream, Vanilla
 1 serving (1/2 cup/106g)
 Sugars, total:  21g
 Calories, total:  270
 Calories from sugar: 84

 1 pint (424g)
 Sugars, total:  84g
 Calories, total:  1080 
 Calories from sugar: 336

Snickers 
 1 serving (1/3 King Size bar/35g)
 Sugars, total:  18g
 Calories, total:  170 
 Calories from sugar: 72
 

 1 King Size bar (105g) 
 Sugars, total:  54g
 Calories, total:  510 
 Calories from sugar: 216
 

 1 Regular Size bar (59g) 
 Sugars, total:  30g
 Calories, total:  280 
 Calories from sugar: 120

Coca Cola 
 12 oz (355 ml) Can
 Sugars, total:  39g
 Calories, total:  140 
 Calories from sugar: 140*

 20 oz (590 ml) Bottle
 Sugars, total:  65g
 Calories, total:  240 
 Calories from sugar: 240

 1 Liter (34 oz) Bottle
 Sugars, total:  108g
 Calories, total:  400 
 Calories from sugar: 400

* You'll notice that if you do the math on
many of these, the total caloric value 
is lower than the calories that should be
in the sugar alone, if sugar has 4 calories
per gram. We don't know if they used 
"low calorie" sugar; we just used the data
on the nutrition label, and assumed that
sugar accounted for 100% of the calories.
This was common for beverages but not
other products.

What to do if you can't stick to your diet!

I cannot diet end of. I simply have no willpower for it. I love food, especially junk food and find it so difficult to eat bad food in moderation. So I don't buy it and set myself individual challenges rather than following a specific diet plan that restricts certain foods. I don't agree with restricting yourself something, but everything in moderation.  All these diet plans have been set up to make money and don't care if your just losing muscle not fat or if your not getting the required nutrients you need. So to really succeed you need to get the devil out of your body. By this I mean your devil. That one food(s) that you know is really bad for you and if your honest with yourself your most probably addicted too. This is your devil because it's likely making your fat, unhappy and definitely unhealthy. Quite simply you need to tell him or her to pee off!

I had quite a few. The main one for me was fizzy drinks. I went cold turkey about 2 years ago and to this day I haven't had a slip up. I was really addicted to these drinks especially diet coke and would send my hubby out at ridiculous o'clock to get me a can. I drank them everyday and the more I drank them the more I wanted.....yes it may seem crazy but I was a fizzy drink addict! Think about it could you tell me what makes up those fizzy drinks? Basically I was just polluting my body.

If you eat something everyday that you know isn't good for you or you find something difficult to eat in moderation then go cold turkey. If it's just you can't have one packet of crisps and before you know if you've ate 6 bags then just don't have any. Your not restricting yourself to any specific food group then, but just saying no to a bad addiction. After all it's not that tiny mouthful of something naughty occasionally making you fail in your goals it's the food or drink that you eat in excess. Give it up! It will be hard, it may take several attempts, but just from giving up certain addictions you'll be so much closer to succeeding.

Let me know your addictions and how it goes x