I did go nuts with chocolate over lockdown, and had been eating excess amounts of sweet stuff for quite a while. But it's a huge revelation to me too that sugar is basically pure carbohydrate, and that all non-fibre carbs are as bad as each other. I always thought I was being really good having a small amount of chilli with a lot of rice or a small amount of bolognaise with a lot of pasta. This has turned that kind of thinking on its head. And I was treating bread as a total no penalty food, at one point having 4 slices of toast for breakfast and 4 slices as two sandwiches for lunch. I wasn't putting on weight, so how much damage could I be doing?
The real kicker? The alcohol free beer that I'd been drinking during the week (being good, avoiding alcohol) has as many carbs in one 330ml can as two 440ml cans of Carling. So in 'being good' and avoiding alcohol, I was actually fairly drastically increasing my carb intake. I am going to do an experiment with some of those one evening, to see just how badly 3 or 4 cans spike me.