Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Metabolic reset" video.

I mean diet soda, while not "good" is also not bad. It's pretty much water plus some artificial sweetener, which are 200+ times more potent than sugar by that you only need 1/200th of the amount for the same effect. 2l of cola got 212g sugar (apple juice by the way got even more), but you only need ~1g of artificial sweetener for the same sweetness. And no, it does not make you hungry or ill, especially not that low amount, you would need to consume insane amounts of them to have a bad effect. So if you want the sweet taste, diet soda is clearly a good choice. By the way: No one ever said that eggs and meat are bad, too much of it - what is the case for everything, was and is seen as bad. In case of bread it was always said that the whole-grain bread is better than the white bread.
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@sthenzel Body needs sugar to survive (especially our brain9 and it overall got no clue about what there is outside and how easy or how hard it is to get. What seems quite obvious to me meanwhile is, that when you lack certain minerals or vitamines, that this will by itself created a constant hunger, because the body hungers for that mineral, for example potassium, which you need around 4g+, but you can find it in very few foods in a big enough amount to reach that. So the body wants more of potassium for example, but it can't tell you "yeah, I want that", it can only tell you a general "MORE!" Means a diet that lacks certain important minerals or vitamines will constantly have your body screaming for these. So it's not even the sugar that makes you hungry, it's the lack of other things that simply does not still your hunger. Sugar got a good amount of kcal, less than fat, but it still gives you a good amount of energy - but you need more than just energy.
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Puddings, ice cream and alike (if you take care for not eating the insane variants with massive amount of sugar and fat added) are pretty harmless in comparison to other sweets, normally 1/5 of kcal via much less sugar and fat than choc bars, cakes and so on. Even less when you take care and go for low fat/sugar versions. Of course when you want/must lose weight, it's likely better to not eat anything like that at least for a while, but it could make it easier to start switching to stuff that you still like but simply got way less calories.
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I mean, you literally die without carbohydrates, especially our brain, but the body can produce those itself if it does not get it via food. So overall you simply can't avoid carbohydrates and if your body wouldn't be able to handle that via gluconeogenesis, you would just fall over dead.
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