How to beat sugar addiction

According to psychologists and naturopaths, people are not born with a sweet tooth, they become one. If you are ready to sell your soul for a chocolate bar, but at the same time feel like an unhealthy, overweight person - then read these 12 tips to help you overcome your food addiction to sweets.

1. Protein for breakfast

Meat, eggs, cheese for breakfast is your salvation. It has been proven that the pancreas works differently with such a diet: the hunger hormone leaves, and satiety is felt. The more satisfying the breakfast, the less you want to "hit" the sweet.

2. No meal breaks

The acute need for sweets is quite understandable - the level is falling Sahara in blood. To keep it healthy, do not skip meals. 5 meals a day is the best helper in this.

3. Use spices

Ginger, cinnamon, vanillin - these spices often help to cope with sugar addiction. Use them in diet meals, and you will soon forget about sweets.

4. Lack of sleep - no

Here is such a trivial, teeth-biting advice - sleep well. After all, the truth is: the less we sleep, the lower the hormone leptin, in the imbalance there are other hormones responsible for the desire to hang out.

5. Exercise therapy is our faithful friend 

Exercise therapy is your faithful friend / istockphoto.com

Well, no matter how you would like, no matter how sad it is, but exercise therapy is to be. But there is no other way, alas. Physical exercise by itself raises your spirits, so there will be no need to "seize" a cake.

6. Find the reason

You need to understand why you are addicted to sweets. Is it diabetes or a psychological cause. Determine the root of all evil with a specialist.

7. Where is the trap?

When do you eat sweets? Analyze, and if difficult to determine, keep a food diary. Just a week is enough to understand in what minutes you succumb to temptation. Does it happen in moments of fatigue, lack of sleep, or anger?

8. Reward for abstinence 

Reward and encourage yourself / istockphoto.com

Come up with a system of rewards in the hryvnia equivalent. For example, if you didn't buy a chocolate bar for 40 UAH, save this money. And at the end of the week / month, buy something pleasant for yourself with the money saved.

9. Calcium is all over the head

Your nails are peeling, you get tired quickly, you literally feel cold and hot on your tooth - it's time to drink a course of calcium. After all, its lack makes dependence on sweets even more unbearable.

10. With a book on life

Scientists have proven that the most effective way to relieve stress is reading! When you crave something sweet, grab a book!

11. Thirsty in the desert

You know what they say: you are not hungry, you are thirsty. And in most cases, this is true. If you crave something sweet, drink a glass of water.

12. Stress?

Pay attention to your schedule. If a mother, who pulls on her children, and her husband, and everyday life, it is no wonder that you eat sweets. How to relax differently? Here is one advice - reconsider your life.

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