You are not alone!
How Do I Stop Eating Sugar? Just start one day at a time.
I know about sugar addiction and when clients attend Kick Start they realise they are not the only
one. Someone is struggling with something whether it is a glass of wine each night, packet of biscuits, cake, bread, cheese etc.
We know how difficult it can be to avoid sugar.... it's everywhere!
ON everything, hidden IN all sorts of foods which would shock you! (Read those food labels!) Sugar is - addictive
- fattening
- ageing
- slowing you down
- messing with your hormones
- giving you
energy crashes......
Unless you want to be a hermit, socialising & eating out can be tricky....
But not impossible!
When you understand what is going on in the body when you overload on sugar, it makes it so much easier to make better choices.
“Top Tips To Withdrawing From Sugar” to keep you on track today!
1: Don’t add it to foods. This
is the easiest and most basic way to immediately reduce the amount of sugar you’re eating. Biggest targets: coffee and tea.
2: Don’t be fooled by “healthy sugar” disguises. Brown sugar, raw sugar, agave nectar, stevia & sweeteners.... it’s all pretty much the same thing as far as your body is concerned.
3: Reduce or eliminate processed
carbohydrates. Most processed carbs — cereals, breads, biscuits, pastas & snacks, are loaded with flour & other ingredients that convert to sugar in the body almost as fast as pure glucose. That sugar gets stored as triglycerides - or fat.
4: Watch out for “fat-free” "low fat" snacks.
One of the biggest myths is that if a food is fat-free/low-fat it doesn’t make you
fat.
Fat-free doesn’t mean calorie-free, & all fat-free snacks are loaded with sugar, or chemical sugars - keeping you locked into sugar addiction.
5: Become a food detective.
To reduce sugar you have to know where it is. Start reading labels or better still cook from scratch.
6: Beware of artificial sweeteners.
They can
increase cravings for sugar & also deplete the body’s stores of chromium, a nutrient crucial for blood-sugar metabolism.
7: Do the maths. Look at the label where it says “total sugars” & divide the number of grams by four. That’s the number of teaspoons of sugar you are ingesting. This exercise alone should scare you to death.
8: Limit
fruit. Fruit has sugar, but it also has fibre & good nutrients. Just don’t overdo it. Eat local organic fruit that is in season and hasn't been sprayed with pesticides. For fat-loss purposes have a break from fruit for a few weeks and load up on veggies and see your middle shrink.
9: Eliminate fruit juice. It’s a pure sugar hit.
Hope that helps
put it into perspective from a health angle?
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