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Sugar is a sneaky, addictive substance and the breakup isn’t always as easy as just making the decision to stop. Sugar is a highly addictive substance. Having just a little bit creates a desire for more and sugar addiction can cause health problems, and withdrawal symptoms like headaches and mood swings can make it worse.
It is important to know where we get sugar from beside the usual suspects of cakes, cookies, and candy. Sugar is also in almost all conventional (and even many natural foodstuffs) - bread, canned vegetables, yogurt, pasta sauce, hummus, sauces, salad dressings, and unfortunately even baby food and baby formula.
So educate yourself with these few tips on the substance
1. Reduce caffeine intake: Coffee without breakfast in the morning is a recipe for a sugar craving disaster kind of day. You see, when we wake up, we are supposed to secrete the stress hormone cortisol, which helps us start our day. Many of us are tired and under-slept, and therefore not producing enough cortisol, so we hit the coffee pot for a substance-induced “hit” of it. When the cortisol bath wears off, our cells are screaming for insulin in the form of sugar to put out the “state of emergency” the body is experiencing. So cut back on caffeine to stop the cycle of needing sugar after a coffee induced cortisol.
2. Drink a lot of mineralized water: Mineral deficiency causes sweet cravings and purified or reverse osmosis water often doesn’t contain enough minerals. So, choose mineralized and not mineral water whenever you can or if you drink RO water, pick up a bottle of essential trace minerals at your local health food store and add a few drops to each glass. Mineralized water will slash sugar cravings and boost your digestion.
3. Get warm with complex carbohydrates: If you are a sugarholic, challenge yourself with 1 sweet potato every day for five days and see how you do with sugar cravings. Healthful diet, so blast your sugar cravings by having 1 sweet potato a day, In fact, if you are addicted to sugar, you need complex carbohydrates to slow the release of glucose in your blood stream to even out the spikes. Other examples of complex carbohydrates are butternut squash, parsnips, yams, and plantains.
4. Use gentle spices and sweeteners: Adding cinnamon to your coffee, breakfast smoothie, sweet potato, or whatever else you can think of is a great way to gracefully detox from sugar. It tastes sweet and satisfies your taste buds. Other natural sweeteners to use sparingly that will give you that sweet flavour without the negative biochemical reaction in the body are dark liquid stevia, coconut sugar, raw honey, and maple syrup.
Start upgrading the way you use sweeteners and soon you will crave less and less.
5. Cut down on animal protein: The body then craves the opposite state, which is expansion. Sugar makes us feel that way… the body never makes a mistake. It’s always craving to be in balance and works toward it the best way it knows how. If you are eating animal protein with every meal, adjust that or maybe eat a bit less, and see if that helps, Evaluate how much animal protein you consume and begin to play with the amount to see how it affects your cravings and energy level. Then find sweetness in life, no replacement for enough sleep. If we don’t sleep enough, the body will, again, try to create a balanced state by craving sugar. Rest and relaxation are underrated in our culture. Be counter cultural and take time to rest and rejuvenate. Getting enough exercise in the form of movement you enjoy is another way to naturally cut down on sweet cravings.
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