But, is it actually that bad for you?

Maybe you have always had the thought that sugar is the reason you're gaining weight, or sugar is the devil and it's the first thing you cut out when you go on a diet

The problem with doing this is that it isn't sustainable and you actually don't need to do it to lose weight. You can actually still incorporate a lot of sugar in your diet AND lose fat (crazy right?)

We've all done it at some point, we've stepped on the scales and got a bit of a fright when it rudely reads higher than we imagined

So we immediately begin planning to cut out carbs such as bread, start eating "healthy" and say no to every sugary food insight

After a few days of doing this, we realise that we are feeling hungrier than ever, we end up craving high-fat, high sugar foods

This leads to us having a weekend-long binge of donuts, chocolate, sweets, or whatever you can get your hands on

We do this because we have deprived ourselves of these foods for a certain amount of time without incorporating them into our diet...

The consequence of this is that you're in a constant limbo of cutting sugar out of your diet for X amount of days, then binging on it after you can't handle it anymore

How do you solve this?

Contrary to popular belief, sugar isn't that bad. It's almost essential for us to include it into our diets

To lose fat you need to be in a calorie deficit whether that's cutting out sugar or not

In its most simple form, sugar is a carbohydrate, which is a source of energy

If carbohydrates are accounted for in your diet in regards to calories, you will still get the results you want

If you look at people who have your goal physique, AND they eat a good amount of sugar... how do you think they do it?

They do it by accounting for eating higher calories by keeping their calorie expenditure high as well as tracking their calories so they know their intake, not by completely cutting out sugar