The Easy Method to Stop Craving Sugar
and Lose the Weight You Want.
I’m asked a lot about sugar cravings. One:
what are they? and two: how do I stop them?
Sugar cravings seem to get in the way of of a
lot of things. Weight loss being the number one.
If not for the sugar cravings, and might I add flour,
– losing weight would be easy. We all know flour
turns to sugar in your stomach and if you didn’t know
— well now you do. Sugar and flour are pretty much
the same when it comes to cravings.
The thing I find interesting is that there is not one
diet book you can name that doesn’t, usually at it’s
core, tell you to stop using flour and sugar. All the
“white” stuff including white rice and potatoes. But
for sure they all say “no flour and no sugar”. One is
even named that.
So this brings us to a very intriguing question that I
spin a little and challenge people with all the time.
If, indeed, stopping sugar and flour will help us lose weight
and over sixty percent of us are over weight and presumably
want to lose weight – “why is it that no one can just stop
with the flour and sugar and watch the pounds melt off?”
Why can’t we just wake up one day and say: “that’s it! For
thirty days I will eat no flour and no sugar!” ? And then keep
our promise to ourselves.
Most can’t do that simple exercise because of cravings. We
crave to eat the stuff even though we promised ourselves we
wouldn’t. But wait a minute – we are grown adults here.
In most aspects of our lives we function and perform tasks
that we don’t love but we do it because we’re adults and we
know it’s our responsibility – work comes to mind.
But when it comes to not using flour and sugar it’s obvious by
the growing obesity epidemic that we just can’t say we are going
to do it and then do it. Why is that? The word addiction comes
to mind but you’ll need to read around the site more and make that
decision on your own. (to declare yourself a sugar addict)
Here’s the challenge I put to new people: Choose one weekend where
Friday will be a light day at work and you have nothing planned for
the weekend. Stop using sugar and flour and caffeine if you can.
(I always recommend quitting caffeine before attempting to quit
sugar and flour) Stop as early on Thursday as you can. The first
day will always be a grace day. The cravings won’t be to bad. Rest
as much as you can on the weekend. Eat anything you want that
doesn’t have any flour or sugar in it. Then leave a comment below
if you were able to go to work on Monday.
If you are like most people by Sunday evening you will be a basket
case. Yes, that is a medical term for you wiseguys. You will literally
not be able to function well. Headaches, lethargy, depression, cold
and flu like symptoms and more, in short you will not be fun to be
around.
I know this is going to scare some people off and I’m OK with
that. You’ll be back when you’re ready and we will welcome you then.
The answer to question number one:
What are sugar cravings? is simple – it’s sugar withdrawals. It’s
your body wanting to re-ingest it’s poison. I know it’s a hard and
clinical answer but please let it light on you for a little bit. Let the idea
that you may have a slight sugar dependency, built up over the years,
be a possibility for you.
The answer to question number two is equally simple. How do I stop
sugar cravings? You need to have a period of abstinence from sugar in
order for the compulsion to use it again to be released. I know more tough
words like compulsion but if you’re on this site you’re open minded
enough to handle it. You need to string together a week or more (yes
it will be tough) of sugar free living in order to feel the sugar cravings
dissipate. Now it will take much longer than a week to master the draw
to using sugar all together but the hard core physical cravings will not
be a part of your everyday life if you can string together some abstinence.
Anything we can do to help you in your journey to sugar freedom
please don’t hesitate to ask.
Be well.
