Tayrak, allowing myself to have sugar and cut down gradually doesn't work at all. Eating a little bit of sugar for me is like smoking one cigarette. There's just no way I can stop
When I eat sugar I have to eat more and more of it or I will have serious headache, sweating and cravings. Of course I can choose not to eat some, but I'll crave it so much that I'm not able to function normally.
I guess that's something with the brain chemistry, and also with blood glucose. When you eat sugar, your blood glucose raises a lot if you're sensitive to it, and then it falls very quickly, and you feel awful till you eat sugar again.
That's why I have doubts about your theory too, Ilya. I don't think it's about calories. The sugar craving is because of this quickly falling of blood glucose plus brain chemistry plus psychological dependency, not to get some calories.
At least that's what my experience says. When I don't eat sugar for a few days (and no white flour either, nothing with high GI), I don't need to eat so much at all. (I don't need to eat so much food generally, not only sugar) My body is not in starvation mode then, and I'm not hungry, it's just not craving too much food any more, as there is no sugar to mess with my blood glucose.
That's me, dunno...
edit: my point was: you assume that we will need as many calories after having dropped sugar as we need now. And I think after having dropped sugar we will need far less calories!
sorry, foggy mind, as I'm sweating, having a headache and craving sugar right now
