For those that really think Cheerios are healthy...

Susan Louise · ‎03-14-2010

1st...for those that really couldn't care less about avoiding sugar for their health, please skip over this thread.

Below are titles (not links) to 2 videos to watch on youtube. The 1st is facts about Cheerios. The 2nd is a great video about sugar.

Cheerios Truth (Healthy Breakfast or SUGAR + Toxins?)

The Amazing Benefits of Sugar - YouTube

DH and I were able to cut out all foods that contained grains back in Sept 2018 for our health except 2 particular products.

One was Quaker Oatmeal ('old fashioned oats' in that famous round container). It took about 2.5 years of the over 3 years since we started a low carb/keto lifestyle to FINALLY give up the last stronghold cereal had on us. Quite honestly, we love oatmeal...but oatmeal does not love us. We ever so slowly weaned ourselves off of the oatmeal. It has been over 8 months now since we had any oatmeal and the last container was removed...still half full back in March.

The other is a flaxseed bread we have been buying from a California bakery that had the least amount of carbs per slice. We are down to 2 loaves in the freezer and have weaned ourselves down to sandwiches made with this bread only once or twice a month. It used to be once or twice a week when we 1st started this lifestyle! When we finish off the last loaf...which at the pace we are eating it...might not be til about February...LOL...we will finally be down to eating virtually no grains whatsoever. WooHoo!

World Traveler · ‎02-02-2015

@Susan Louise Maybe I missed something from a prior thread, but did you say why you wanted to do away with grains? I find WHOLE grains work very well for me, so I am just curious.

Love Cherrios though!

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@World Traveler I'm a Cheerios fan too and will never stop! I don't relieve everything on youtube. But that's just me!

Susan Louise · ‎03-14-2010

@World Traveler wrote:
@Susan Louise Maybe I missed something from a prior thread, but did you say why you wanted to do away with grains? I find WHOLE grains work very well for me, so I am just curious.

Love Cherrios though!

@World Traveler

It is just easier for me to post a link to a thread I started back in 2019 rather than typing a lot of stuff again...it explains everything.

https://community.qvc.com/t5/Wellness/For-those-that-believe-in-low-fat-diets/td-p/5353543

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

Cheeerios have never been healthy. Just look at the added sugar and salt. However, there are worse cold "cereals" out there.

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

@Susan Louise As a lover of Cheerios and oatmeal and bread, what do you have for breakfast?? Just curious. Not really familiar with low carb/keto diets. It always seems to me that such diets say what can't be eaten but give no substitutes of what can be eaten.

Susan Louise · ‎03-14-2010

@Still Raining wrote:
Cheeerios have never been healthy. Just look at the added sugar and salt. However, there are worse cold "cereals" out there.

@Still Raining For those who have to watch their carb intake for their health, they are all bad news. Years ago Grapenuts and Raisin Bran used to be my fave breakfast cereals...always thinking they were 'healthy...good for me'.

After taking off horse blinders and rose colored glasses, they are really nothing more than bowls full of sugar.

Sugipine · ‎05-22-2016

Cheerios have too many other things in it for me to eat it. I rather just eat plain whole oats.

Susan Louise · ‎03-14-2010

@kaydee50 wrote:
@Susan Louise As a lover of Cheerios and oatmeal and bread, what do you have for breakfast?? Just curious. Not really familiar with low carb/keto diets. It always seems to me that such diets say what can't be eaten but give no substitutes of what can be eaten.

@kaydee50

Since changing our lifestyle back in September 2018, we only have lunches & dinners...and we have incorporated intermittant fasting...only eating in a 6-8 hr window.

Honestly, it is too much for me to re-explain so much over and over again. This thread I posted back in early 2019 explains everything...

https://community.qvc.com/t5/Wellness/For-those-that-believe-in-low-fat-diets/td-p/5353543

A side note - Since Sept 2018, DH has lost 130 lbs...I have lost over 100. We both feel healthier mentally & physically than ever before without all those excess carbs/sugar.

Janey2 · ‎06-07-2010

It is possible to eat everything in moderation and still be healthy. Unless my doctor told me to take something out of my diet I'm just fine. Sometimes people go to the extreme with diets and that's not for everyone.