How To Overcome Sugar Addiction

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The Addiction Is Real

We’ve all heard of a smoking addiction, drug addiction, and an alcohol addiction but is there such thing as a sugar addiction? Yup, you can bet your bottom donut on it. The addiction is real. If you didn’t know already, sugar plays the same addicting role on your brain as does any other addiction. Have a read over at Should Children Be Arrested For Selling Caramel Popcorn to learn more about how sugar affects dopamine levels in the brain and leads to addiction. Lets take a look at some tips and tricks on how to overcome sugar addiction below. Also, be sure to read over my List Of 57 Sneaky Names For Sugar on your food labels to better learn what exactly you are eating!

Steps To Overcome Sugar Addiction

Do you eat a meal and then crave something that’s sugary? This means that your body is out of balance by the foods that you are eating on a daily basis. Lets go through some beginner steps on how to overcome sugar addiction!

1. Balance Your Macros

Macros are the fats, proteins, and carbs that you eat. Every time you eat, you should be eating all three of these. Eating fats, proteins, and carbs every time you eat will result in feeling satiated (full). Getting the right ratio is also important. If you are feeling hungry after an hour of eating, your ratio of macros needs to be changed. Everyone is different, so the best way to know what’s best for you is to play around with it. The longer you feel full after eating, the more you are heading in the right direction. Check out Macros For Beginners to learn how to balance your macros.

2. Eat More Healthy Fats And Proteins

Going right along with balancing out your macros is the need to eat more healthy fats and proteins. Eating more healthy fats and proteins will naturally balance out and help you on how to overcome sugar addiction. Fats and proteins are always fighting with sugar levels to help keep the body balanced. If you check out my 12 vitamin and mineral series, each vitamin lists amazing healthy fats and protein sources. Check out The Guide To Vitamin B12, contains lots of great sources for fats and proteins! Another great thing I like to have in the house are great protein products such as FNX’s Chocolate Batter Protein Powder. I love putting it in pancakes, almond milk, and smoothies- yum! Not only does it taste awesome, but it’s made with raw and organic products. Be sure to use code FNXLwQi for a 15% off total order discount when you visit!

3. Upgrade Your Food Quality

Eating conventional fruits, veggies, and meats most likely contain chemicals such as glyphosate. Glyphosate is a chemical that is used on growing crops to kill pesticides and herbacides. It is an extremely dangerous chemical and in the past couple of years been linked to the cancer lymphoma. Buying organic foods not only taste better but they are not stripped of their nutrients from chemicals when they are grown. Glyphosate is a nasty, dangerous chemical. Learn more about What Glyphosate Is and How Glyphosate Harms The Body.

4. Ditch The Processed Foods

I know, hard. But, I promise you it CAN be done! I call it the 10 days of hell. It doesn’t take long to ditch the processed foods. I believe that if you give them up for 10 days, that the body will stop craving them. Processed foods contain a ton of sugar and Sugar Is The Next Cocaine. Sound crazy? Not really. Processed foods are empty filled foods containing nothing but sugar. Sugar is as addicting as drugs destroying the dopamine balance in your brain having you race to the pantry every time you are feeling hungry or bored. The biggest part on how to overcome sugar addiction is to give up processed and packaged foods. This will not be easy, but you will get through it. If you are up for getting serious about ditching processed foods, challenge yourself with my 10 Day Processed Food Detox!

5. Drink More Water

I’ll share my secret, drink more water. Okay, maybe not the world’s best secret but here’s the take away and trick to the trade. Take your weight and divide it by half. Add ounces after that number. That is the number of ounces of water you should be consuming a day in order to be fully hydrated, pump out toxins from the body, and feed your cell’s communication systems in order to function better. The more diuretics you consume (coffee, tea, wine, beer, sugar, processed foods), the more water you need to drink. Do whatever you gotta do to achieve this one, get yourself a fancy water bottle, anything! Let me help you 🙂

Fruit Infuser Water Bottle
Infuser Water Bottle
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Camelback 32 Ounce Water Bottle
Collapsible Water Bottle

6. Intermittent Fasting

What is intermittent fasting (IF)? IF is eating during a certain amount of hours each day, and is the number one answer I tell people when they ask about how to overcome sugar addiction. A beginner’s guide to intermittent fasting is eating for 8 hours a day and then not eating for 16 hours. Find the schedule download here. Your life can be changed for the better if you intermittent fast, I promise you. Not only does Intermittent Fasting Boost Immunity, but balances out the roller-coaster that most Americans are on each day. Mood swings, energy crashes, constant fatigue only being fixed by eating, the feeling of not being able to stop eating every two hours, all things that can be cured from IF. Be sure to check out the Successful Guide To Intermittent Fasting before you begin!