10 Sugar Craving Tips
1 – Sugar cravings can be a sign of hormonal imbalances due to a nutritional deficiency in the body. A poor diet or hormonal imbalance can cause you to feel tired or a little down and you reach for sugar as a “pick me up.”
2 – Replace the sweets you are consuming with healthy alternatives, such as fruit. They taste sweet, will supplement your sugar cravings but will not have the same negative affects on your body as sugar, which is empty of nutrients and vitamins.
3 – Find ways to fulfill your cravings for sweets without giving up sweets entirely. Instead of eating an entire candy bar, replace it with a “fun” size candy bar (but make sure you stick to one only).
4 – Eating to quickly can also cause your blood sugar levels to rise quickly. This means that your blood sugar levels will decrease sooner making you feel hungry again. By eating your meals slowly helps you avoid these spikes in blood sugar levels and possible sugar cravings.
5 – Switch to wholegrain foods such as wholegrain bread, pasta and rice. As the your body processes the over refined and over processed white flour as sugar, it can affect you the same way sugar does.
6 – Identify your triggers for sugar cravings and then try to avoid them. Common triggers for sugar cravings are boredom, lack of energy and stress. Try to find alternative ways of dealing with these triggers and you’ll be well on the path to beating your sugar cravings.
7 – Scientists believe that we instinctively reach for food that increases the “happiness hormone” (serotonin) and one of the fastest ways is with sugar. Sugar is the body’s quickest source of energy and can change our mood. If you’re feeling down find a healthier way to raise serotonin with some exercise, like a short walk.
8 – Some people report that having some protein instead of sugar when the cravings hit helps to quieten down their cravings.
9 – One of the most common causes of sugar cravings is irregular eating. If you skip meals or eat on an unpredictable schedule, this can result in catapulting your body into a state of starvation. As a result, your body sends out messages that it needs energy in a hurry and sends out sugar cravings. The easy solution to this is to make sure that you are eating more frequent, smaller meals each day.
10 - You might think you’ve taken as much sugar out of your diet already but sugar comes in various guises that you might not know. Here’s other names for sugar on food labels….corn syrup,demerara sugar,dextrose, free flowing brown sugars, fructose, galactose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup,invert sugar, lactose, malt, molasses, maple syrup, sucrose, and maltose.
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