7 Day No Sweets Challenge

Sugar is widely known as the number one cause of diabetes, heart diseases and many other complications in our health. The bad part is we can cut out all sugars and even go for items labeled "no refined sugars" but they will sneakily find a way to add it in there using another name that you might not recognize. 

Here are some of the "other" names that sugar poses by: (257 to be exact)

Agave nectar (Often with HFCS)
Agave syrup (Often with HFCS
All natural evaporated cane juice
Amasake
Amber liquid sugar
Anhydrous dextrose
Apple butter
Apple sugar
Apple syrup
Arenga sugar
Bakers special sugar
Barbados Sugar
Barley malt
Barley malt syrup
Bar sugar
Berry Sugar
Beet molasses
Beet sugar
Beet syrup
Blackstrap molasses
Blonde coconut sugar
Brown rice syrup
Brown sugar
Buttered syrup
Candy floss
Cane crystals
Cane juice
Cane juice crystals
Cane juice powder
Cane sugar
Caramel
Carob syrup
Caster sugar
Castorsugar
Cellobiose
Chicory (HFCS)
Coarse sugar
Coconut palm sugar
Coconut sap sugar
Coconut sugar
Coconut syrup
Coco sugar
Coco sap sugar
Concentrate juice (Often with HFCS)
Concord grape juice concentrate
Confectioner’s sugar
Corn sugar (HFCS)
Corn syrup (HFCS)
Corn syrup solids (HFCS)
Corn sweetener (HFCS)
Cornsweet 90 ® (really HFCS 90)
Creamed honey (Often with HFCS)
Crystal dextrose
Crystalline fructose
Crystallized organic cane juice
D-arabino-hexulose
Dark brown sugar
Dark molasses
Date sugar
Decorating sugar
Dehydrated sugar cane juice
Demerara Sugar
Dextrin
Dextran
Dextrose
D-fructose
D-fructofuranose
Diastatic malt
Diatase
Disaccharide
Dixie crystals
D-mannose
Dried evaporated organic cane juice
D-xylose
ECJ
Evaporated organic cane juice
Evaporated corn sweetener (HFCS)
Ethyl maltol
First molasses
Florida Crystals
Free Flowing
Free flowing brown sugar
Fructamyl
Fructose (HFCS)
Fructose crystals (HFCS)
Fructose sweetener (HFCS)
Fruit fructose (HFCS)
Fruit juice (Often with HFCS)
Fruit juice concentrate (Often with HFCS)
Fruit sugar (Often with HFCS)
Fruit syrup (Often with HFCS)
Galactose
Glucodry
Glucomalt
Glucoplus
Glucose
Glucose-fructose syrup (HFCS)
Glucose solids
Glucosweet
Gluctose fructose (HFCS)
Golden molasses
Golden sugar
Golden syrup
Gomme syrup
Granulated fructose
Granulated sugar
Granulated sugar cane juice
Grape sugar
Grape juice concentrate
Gur
HFCS
HFCS 42
HFCS 55
High dextrose glucose syrup
High-fructose corn syrup
High fructose maize syrup (HFCS)
High maltose corn syrup (Often with HFCS)
Hydrogenated starch
Hydrogenated starch hydrosylate
Hydrolyzed corn starch
Honey
Honey comb
Honey powder
HSH
Icing sugar
Inulin (HFCS)
Invert sugar
Inverted sugar syrup
Invert syrup
Icing sugar
Isoglucose (HFCS)
Isomalt
Isomaltotriose
Isosweet
Jaggery
Jaggery powder
Lactitol
Lactose
Levulose
Lesys
Light brown sugar
Light molasses
Liquid dextrose
Liquid fructose (Often with HFCS)
Liquid fructose syrup (Often with HFCS)
Liquid honey
Liquid maltodextrin
Liquid sucrose
Liquid sugar
Maize syrup (HFCS)
Maldex
Maldexel
Malt
Malted barley syrup
Malted corn syrup
Malted corn and barley syrup
Malted barley
Maltitol
Maltitol syrup
Malitsorb
Maltisweet
Maltodextrin
Maltose
Maltotriitol
Maltotriose
Maltotriulose
Malt syrup
Mannitol
Maple Sugar
Maple syrup
Meritose
Meritab 700
Misri
Mizuame
Molasses
Monosaccharide
Muscovado sugar
Mycose
Mylose
Nigerotriose
Oligosaccharride
Organic agave syrup
Organic brown rice syrup
Organic cane juice crystals
Organic coconut palm sugar
Organic palm sugar
Organic sucanat
Organic sugar
Organic raw sugar
Orgeat syrup
Palm sugar
Palm syrup
Panela
Pancake syrup
Panocha
Pearl sugar
Piloncillo
Potato maltodextrine
Powdered sugar
Promitor
Pure cane syrup
Pure sugar spun
Raisin syrup
Rapadura
Raw agave syrup
Raw sugar
Raffinose
Refiner’s syrup
Rice maltodextrine
Rice Syrup
Rice syrup solids
Raw honey
Rock sugar
Saccharose
Sanding sugar
Second molasses
Shakar
Simple syrup
Sirodex
Soluble corn fiber
Sorbitol
Sorbitol syrup
Sorghum
Sorghum molasses
Sorghum syrup
Sucanat
Sucre de canne naturel
Sucrose
Sucrosweet
Sugar
Sugar beet syrup
Sugar beet crystals
Sugar cane juice
Sugar cane natural
Sugar hat
Sulfured molasses
Sweetened condensed milk
Sweet sorghum syrup
Syrup Syrup
Table sugar
Tagatose
Treacle
Trehalose
Tremalose
Trimoline
Triose
Trisaccharides
Turbinado sugar
Unrefined sugar
Unsulphured molasses
White crystal sugar
White grape juice concentrate
White refined sugar
White sugar 

So, yes, it might be a bit tedious to look at labels and packages for 7 days but trust me, it will help your body to curb your sugar cravings.  

Please NOTE: This no sugar challenge means NO ADDED sugar - only natural sugars found in foods like fruits, milk, plain yogurt and fresh vegetables are completely okay. The plan is to give up ADDED sugars - anything that doesn't occur in foods naturally and can be found mostly in processed foods. 

Here are the rules:

- Foods that have added sugar of any kind are not allowed. You might be surprised to learn that sugar has many names (listed above) and some are disguised right in the ingredients list. Sneaky, sneaky, right?  Some manufactures will even go as far as promote "No High Fructose Corn Syrup" which is true for the most part but they will add other sugars with other names because they know the consumer doesn't really know what they are looking for. 

- No added natural sugars or sweeteners of any kind which include: honey, agave nectaar, stevia, molasses, coconut sugar, etc. 

- No added refined sugars (white sugar, corn syrup, brown sugar)

- No added artificial sweeteners (Splenda, Truvia, Nutrasweet, etc.) 

Hope you all make it and we can work through this amazing challenge. 

If you have any questions about this challenge, post it below.