The habit of eating sweets. How to get rid of it?

Nourishment/18 January 2021

In today’s world, the abundance and access to sweets exceeds all red marks of consumption. A person forms addiction and dependence, which becomes uncontrollable and in most cases in combination with other factors leads to a lot of negative consequences. Today I will teach you how to get rid of cravings for sweets. This will be a series of sequential tips with which you will be able to minimize this crazy love in sweet products.

1. Change your breakfast

For breakfast, opt for whole fatty foods with a serving of non-starchy vegetables or salad/large leaf/dark greens.

Whole fatty foods include: eggs, caviar, poultry or fatty fish, seafood, avocados, nuts, and various types of oils: flaxseed, olive oil, butter, and coconut oil. Fatty dairy products are acceptable if you are not allergic to them.

You can use different types of this category of products, mix, vary at your discretion.

Can I eat bread? Yes, but no more than one slice. If you eat a cool sourdough bread, one with more seeds and less gluten, or a gluten-free bread, it will add even more benefits.

Is it okay to have some sort of dessert after a breakfast like this? Sure, your choice of one citrus fruit, a handful of berries, or two slices of bitter chocolate.

Follow this advice for a few days and notice some changes in how you feel, particularly a lengthening of the period of hunger after eating such a breakfast. Aim for hunger to come on no earlier than 3-4 hours later. Once you have achieved this goal - you can proceed to the next point.

2. Making the right dinner

We will work with the carbohydrate component of your dinner.

Program minimum - reduce simple carbohydrates, which means removing all sweet foods that contain simple and added sugars.

The optimum program is to cut complex carbohydrates from our diet. You cut in half, if not eliminate carbohydrate side dishes. These include: starchy vegetables, legumes and cereals.

An ideal dinner would be a portion of non-starchy vegetables with an oil dressing and a small amount of protein. Also, to dull the feeling of hunger in the evening: brine one teaspoon of butter or coconut oil.

If reducing the carbohydrate component of your dinner affects your sleep, you have difficulty falling asleep or wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning, then by all means put a small amount of carbohydrates back into your dinner by adding some baked root vegetables, legumes or cereals.

3. Nuts (unless you’re allergic to them)

Soak 20-25 of your favorite nuts from the evening and use them every 2 waking hours throughout the next day - this will prevent blood sugar spikes throughout the day. You use this tip until a persistent feeling of satiety builds for 4 or more hours, after that you can stop using it.

4. Vitamin C

Vitamin C has been shown to be able to dull cravings for sweets, so using rosehip decoction as the most concentrated vitamin C drink will allow you to control it throughout the day.

Additionally, you can have your blood tested for chromium levels. If you see that it is closer to the lower limit of normal or below the reference, ask your doctor for a form of chromium and its dosage. Eating carbohydrate foods always lowers the chromium levels in the body and here, supplementing it will control your cravings for sweets.

Remember that prohibitions don’t work. Start small and be healthy.

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