Build a relationship with it. Sugar is a very powerful enemy, its everywhere, in every food item. You cannot win. Its even more powerful than cocaine based on studies done on rate.
You want to read this answer if you want to know 8 effective ways to reduce sugar in your life.
Note: You cannot eliminate sugar. It seeps into literally every food item.
However by applying intelligent strategies that I will give you in this answer you can easily minimize it, which obviously will have a positive affect on your health:
Before I start let me clarify what exactly we mean by ‘Sugar’ in this context.
Carbohydrates when eaten ultimately breaks down into sugar i.e. glycose. If you eat brown rice, white rice, oats, sweet potatoes—everything will ultimately break down into glycose—the blood sugar.
What we are discussing here is refined/processed sugar like donuts, pastries, any sweets—that has a rapid impact on blood sugar and causes insulin resistance and therefore hosts of health problems along with it.
- Schedule eating sugar. Yeah you heard it right schedule it in your life. Build a relationship with it. Sugar is a very powerful enemy, its everywhere in every food item. You cannot win. Its even more powerful than coke based on studies done on rate.
For example: I have scheduled 200 calories from sugar daily and I am at peace with it.
I am addicted to having 2 cookies (sugar) with my coffee. I schedule it between 7–9am everyday.
I am fond of cheescake, brownies and do eat 500 calories per week from it.
Once you do this, overtime your sugar consumption will reduce.
Measuring, tracking and monitoring sugar can help you reduce it.
- Clear out sugar from your fridge. How does your fridge looks like when you open it everytime?
If your fridge looks like this, you cannot minimize sugar:
How about this:
Clear out sugar from your kitchen cabinets and your house basically:
- Keep healthy foods in front of your all the time:
98% of your behaviour is your sub-conscious telling you what to do.
The best way to change your sub-conscious is through repeated visuals or affirmations.
Seeing healthy food whenever you enter your kitchen or open your fridge is bound to influence it in a positive way.
Keep a jar of nuts—almonds and walnuts next to it.
- Increase calories from healthy fats: Besides hosts of health benefits that fats provide you, you are full for a longer peroid of time. Fats has 9 calories per gram and slows down the gastric empyting and supports you for a longer time.
For example, after this eating this 4 Whole Egg Omelette made in coconut oil, I am sorted for at least 4–5 hours! Thats a long time, condisering there are no carbs in eggs.
- Give Intermittent Fasting a try: We as humans have evolved by cycling between periods of famine and feast everyday. Food was scarce thousands of years back. There were long peroids of under eating followed by meals where our ancestors used to eat their hearts out….Our genetics haven’t changed much since then….
I.F. has been one of the best thing that happened to me and so many leading health authorties that I know of.
Its no fad, or a diet but its a way of life….
I recommend you slowly give it a try and see if it works for you or not.
Studies have shown that you I.F. helps normalize insulin levels, and help you eat less calories overall.
You can read about my eating pattern here
- Educate yourself. Sugar seeps into everything. Sugar has different names. Here are some of them:
- Learn to read labels. Always look at the ingrediet list when buying food which comes in a wrapper or a box.
NEVER EVER LOOK AT THE FRONT. SAVVY MARKETERS WILL USE WORDS LIKE NATURAL, HEALTHY, FORTIFIED TO ATTRACT YOUR ATTENTION.
- Always have a list when grocery shopping. This is indeed a pre-requisite when it comes to cleaning your house and fridge of sugar.
When visisting the super-market, stick to your list when buying groceries, avoid the middle aisles where they keep foods high in sugar and so forth.
And yeah, never go hungry when grocery shopping.
You are bound to pick up unhealthy food items. Once you paid for it, 90% of the time you end up eating it.
Hope all these stratgies will help you mimimize your sugar intake.
All the best,
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