This is for the sweet toothed people, sugars in any form is detrimental to health, although it may provide instant energy and very lovable by the palate but has to be taken in moderation it provides instant but minerals thus causing the weight graph plummeting high with deficiency diseases along with sugar related ailments like diabetes etc which is regarded as a slow but steady killer.
Educate yourself with the contents of your food which you are about to eat knowing the nutrient content will make you alert and a conscious eater either you eat those sugary foods less or in moderation either in small portions or keep them at bay. Read the food labels ,the ingredients mentioned and try to find out the different forms of sugar in it as simple carbohydrates could also be good source of sugars, other calorific sweeteners like corn syrup, fructose etc.
Sweeten your breakfast cereals or substitute your refined sugars by fresh fruits to avoid those extra calories. Avoid canned or dried fruit, packed fruit juices as they both are very high in sugar content, instead go for fresh fruit juices. Pamper yourself with cakes and pastries and other sweet meats but in moderations, smaller portions enjoy the food while eating don’t just swallow or gulp it down in one go, fool your brain by enjoying that same portion for a longer period of time.
Instead of refined flours go for combination flours imparting your system with more fibers and roughage as refined flours tend to have plenty complex sugar molecules hard to break down instead go for high roughage flours ,try to avoid WHITES as they have the maximum sugars as every carbohydrate will break down itself in to ultimate sugars only. Using plentiful of herbs like cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger to retain the original flavor of your dessert, thus reducing those extra calories, instead of frosting the cake slice just sprinkle it with some powdered sugar.
Reduce the amount of sugar in your hot and cold beverages teas and coffees could be made more flavorful by little variation, use green teas, lemon teas mix some honey instead of refined sugar as sugars in these beverages gets absorbed by the system far more easily and fast being in liquid form. The bottom line is whatever we eat calories needs to burned don’t let those stubborn calories accumulate in your body.