I have a problem with sugar. I eat sweets for comfort in the evenings. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this unhealthy habit?
I used to put sugar on everything. Now, I use sweet products instead of actual sugar. I also try to cook with brown sugar.
Flavored creamer is where I started...
It is not easy but can be done. Switch to eating more fat and fatty protein. I have a sweet tooth, but switched to very low carb way of eating 3-4 years ago. Contrary to what many see, the best science indicates that it is easily digestible carbohydrates in our diet, not fat, that is the problem.
drink water . your body is confusing hunger with thirst
Out preferred tastes evolved in terms of we crave the things which in nature woudl provide nutrients our body needs. In hunter gather societies, before agriculture, the tastes we evolved to crave to get nutrients are sugar, salt and fat. Food manufactureres use our evolved cravings as a way of getting us to eat their processed foods, which provides the tastes we naturally crave, but without the nutrients we'd get if we foudn those tastes via natural foods. Because our bodies never get eh nutrients we'd get from natural foods with those tastes, we keep cravign those tastes and processed food manufactureres sell more food and we just get fat and/or unhealthy. When I was younger Ihad the sweet craving and ate mostly unhealthy stuff. Now I ear foods which are mor enaturally sweet, like fruits. After severalmonths of this, the old junk food doesnt' taste as good anymore. I swear i can now even taste preservativesand chemicals in it. Eat a wide variety of foods that are naturally sweet (not processed) and over tiem you will no longer crave the sweet junk foods, because your body will get the nutrients it wants whcih are contained in the natural foods. At first it takes a lot of discipline to not put hunk food intothe grocery cart when shopping, but it gets easier over time.
I have a bad sweet addiction. I've gone spells of 2 to 4 weeks of giving it up. But always go back to it
@Lita I have done that before. Strange, both times I did it with alcoholics ...They give up alcohol and I give up sweets. Both times they broke the arrangement. I'm turning it over in my head right now. OK I will do it. I mean before it was no sweets.... Candy, cookies, pie , etc. I can do that. Not sure of everything that has sugar in it. Starting now. I will report back everyday to see if I'm sticking to it. Good timing. I just ate a donut.
@Lita yah. One piece of Candy is too much and a thousand is not enough. Props on the seven years of sobriety. Well it's been twelve hours for me with no sweets, since I had the donut right before making above comment about the accountability pledge. I'm going to give daily updates to keep me honest.
I have the same problem. I've switched to a high protien low carb diet. Unfortunately u have to use will power the first few week to get past the sugar cravings. Check out the Dr Axe video on youtube on how to beat your sugar cravings naturally. It's really hard. Best of luck to u!
The best thing is to change your sweet cravings, to be only fruit, sprinkled with nuts. This is much more healthy. Over time, you want even care for sugar sweets. A little yogurt added is good, too.