Last year I found a study that said that sugar is more addictive than cocaine to rats. Judging by the human beings, we are not too different. I bet there’s many more of us who are addicted to sugar to cocaine. If sugar is calling you at night, interrupting their good intentions and makes you feel powerless to keep reading.
Many of you have been writing in which sugar is the most difficult to fight. I thought that granting write a blog about it. No wonder that sugar is a struggle, because it is highly addictive. The more you eat, the more you want. And the fact is we eat more than ever. It’s in everything (meat marinades, chips, cookies, bread, peanut butter). The average American consumes 156 pounds of sugar a year. That’s almost half a pound per day. Measure half pound of sugar and watch. It’s a lot. And if you are not cooking the food, can never be sure how much sugar is good. Sugar is a habit because of failure is so difficult because there is a physical and an emotional component.
Physical attraction is that it gives a surge of energy. A shock to your mind quickly is associated with good feelings, but his mind forget it also comes with an accident (not to mention the added pounds and a host of other health problems). Your body can become like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors violently demanding that you feed sugar in the form required two blood Audrey.
The emotional appeal is that sugar evokes feelings of celebration, sweetness and reward. And deprive us of it seems to make us feel they are being severely deprived. A sort of deprivation that almost forces us to rebel and eat anyway.
The powerful combination of physical and emotional seduction of sugar as food difficult to let go. If you’ve ever been hooked on sugar I’m sure you’ll agree. However, by leaving sugar (after a difficult couple of weeks) you’ll find that anxiety disappears. And this can be so liberating. Sometimes I recommend that people give this a try. Stop sugar that gives you the opportunity to eliminate the physical addiction so you can only focus on the emotional. I am not suggesting that you never have sugar again. People should eat a piece of birthday cake, Jillian Michaels Diet but you’re bound to feel more in control of whether you’re the one choosing when and how to eat more sweets instead of being a slave to a body that is addicted to sugar.
One thing to remember is that you can not quit. Here are some things I’ve found have made it easy in the past.
or Eat enough quality protein (fish, tofu, yogurt, lean meats)
o Incorporate a green powder in your diet (spirulina, pure synergy http://www.evolutionhealth.com/pure-synergy/puresynergy-ingredients.html or pro-green)
fats or eating quality (olive oil, flaxseed meal, cod liver oil, avocado, raw almonds)
or satisfy the craving for sweet creatively (a cup of licorice tea or hot almond milk)
o Do not use sugar substitutes (which I want to keep the taste of sweetness)
or savor the natural sweetness (a sweet baked potato, a fully ripe apple, a dried fig)
Eat or burdock (burdock naturally balances blood sugar levels)
or quinoa Eat once a day (it’s a complete protein grain gluten-free high)
Incorporating non-food or sweetness in your life (affection, play, laughter and love)
A woman I work with said that when looking at a dessert table these days is said to herself: “I am not a woman considering brownies for food. I’m not going to betray with this type of food.” A Once you go through a period without eating sugar will be much easier to eat sweets once or twice a week in moderation. A different kind of sweetness awaits. What is it? Do not let sugar addiction get the best of you.