Paleo anyone ??

I've been on a low carb, low sugar diet for a couple of years. My A1C was pushing the upper limit (just below pre-diabetes. Didn't have pins and needles and don't want them. I eat something sweet every now and then but only in very small amounts. People don't realize that even if you stop eating sugar all together it won't help you at all if you keep eating carbs. The body converts all carbs into sugar so cutting sugar does no good. If you could get your carbs to below 30 per day you would lose weight much faster. It's not easy. Also, if you can manage to do some exercise every day you'll lose the weight much faster.
Worst part of all is the grocery stores, 99 percent of the stuff on the shelves is either carbs or sugar or BOTH!! We shop mostly in the lean meat, fish and produce section. And don't let them fool you with the no sugar added OR "no sugar" on the label. They have been able to manufacture many new chemicals that are sweet like sugar but they don't call it sugar so that they can get away with saying "No Sugar". These chemicals (sugar substitutes) have many different names, the problem is that they are usually worse than real sugar and your body reacts to them as if they were sugar. Studies have found that some of these chemicals are worse than sugar when it comes to A1C and diabetes. You have to read the labels carefully and do your reseach to find all the fake-sugar names like Acesulfame K, Aspartame, Nutrasweet, Neotame, Saccharin, Splenda. Some of these substitutes are like sugar ON STEROIDS!!
The list below are alcohol sugars. They are sweet but the body isn't able to process them like regular sugar so they are harder to absorb:

• Erythritol – 0.2 calories per gram and 60% to 80% as sweet as sugar
• Isomalt– 2 calories per gram and 45% to 65% as sweet as sugar
• Lactitol – 2 calories per gram and 30% to 40% as sweet at sugar
• Maltitol – 2.1 calories per gram and 90% as sweet as sugar
• Mannitol – 1.6 calories per gram and 50% to 70% as sweet as sugar
• Sorbitol – 2.6 calories per gram and 50% to 70% as sweet as sugar
• Xylitol – 2.4 calories per gram and the same sweetness as sugar

Good luck on your quest!!!