Ooh Noofly those chocs sound good, I was going to say give them to me instead ha ha! I'm sure 16 will be ok like you say.
Just to pick up on that point up thread, about you won't lose weight from cutting out sugar, if you replace it with the same amount of calories in other food.
That's not true. Reading a great book "The Case Against Sugar' at the moment. The line that a calorie from sugar is equal to a calorie from say broccoli is not true.
If you replaced all calories from sugar with a bulk load of calories from broccoli you would certainly lose weight!
Basically refined sugar is a chemical and works in a different way inside our bodies.
The hormonal and insulin changes that occur when you eat sugar, makes fat cells trap excessive calories as fat, and don't allow it to escape or be used as energy by the rest of the body.
This means your body is eating, but the food isn't going to the normal organs which are expecting it. So your body sends signals to eat more, and still only a percentage gets through to your organs, and a percentage goes into the fat cells.
This explains the 'delayed sense of satiety and frequently abnormal taste for carbohydrates encountered in obese persons'
It also explains the big crash you get after eating sugar, where you feel drained. It's because not the full amount of what you've eaten has gone into your body in the normal way. Your body is drained from food. And an abnormal process is trapping it in the fat cells.
Phew, it is interesting reading. Started the book on Thursday and not even felt like sugar since! Had ready meal for dinner and bread for lunch, so refined sugars are sneaking in. But my mouth felt a lot different last night. I thought I'd cleaned my teeth already but I hadn't. Just didn't have the normal fuzzy feeling.
Got kids birthday party to day and tmrw, so think the kids will be going crazy on sugar. But I'm sure if I model good behaviour it will slowly trickle down to them!