5 Steps to Quit Sugar for Good

Sugar addiction is real. Most of us are aware that consuming a lot of sugar is not healthy but few actually comprehend the dangers of how addictive sugar actually is.

The fact is, you don’t need sugar, you don’t need to succumb to those sugar cravings, and you don’t need to endure the sugar rushes and subsequent lows. You also don’t need to expose yourself to a mindboggling range of illnesses and diseases now directly linked to sugar.

How To Quit Sugar?

It’s not going to be easy, sugar is addictive. Especially since most of us are hooked on to it since childhood. However, it’s not as impossible as you might think. Considering how bad sugar is for you, we hope that by the end of this article, you’d have jumped on Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar bandwagon like 300,000 others, aiming to slash all added sugar from your diet for eight long weeks.

Sugar is bad for you; it’s as simple as that. So here are five ways to get it out of your life for good.

One: Ditch The Overly Delicious Stuff

Super sweet foods are a bit like that clichéd movie line: “It’s quiet, too quiet.” So if you’re saying “It’s delicious, too delicious,” you’re either in a Michelin Star restaurant paying for a single ice cube-sized truffle perched atop a bit of greenery, or you’re eating sweets.

Candies, cookies, sodas, coca colas, sugar-soaked baked foods, most mass marketed cereals; they are delicious, too delicious because all that sugar is playing a very one-sided game with your brain. They give you nothing but health problems and you don’t actually need them.

Two: Refine Your Dinner Habits

“Right, well, that lean chicken breast was absolutely delicious and just the thing I needed for my diet. I think I’ve earned a big slice of cheesecake with ice cream!”

This is the thing; we associate dinner with courses. Most homes don’t bother with entrees, but we do have a main course and, more often than not, we have dessert. Why? Because our taste buds have shown exemplary table manners throughout the main course savoury stuff and now they want to party.

Deny them. Give them a light fresh fruit or natural yoghurt experience instead and they’ll stop complaining in no time.

Three: Eat Fruit

If you’re used to your sweetness coming in a plastic-coated bar with major TV commercials and sports endorsements, fruit might seem a little under-promoted.

But even if bananas don’t feature on NBA shirts, they’ll win more playoffs against other foods than the Cleveland Cavaliers. Fruit might not be as sweet as candy, but it’s a nice bit of middle ground when it’s all fresh, healthy and growing out of the ground.

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Four: Eat Fat

Within reason, eat healthy fatty food that makes you feel full. Fatty fish, chicken, bacon; might not be long-term options for a low-fat diet, but they’ll sate your appetite and help to keep the sugar cravings at bay.

Here are ten of Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar recipes that might help you achieve your goal of quitting sugar or at the very least reducing your sugar intake for a start.

Five: Watch What You Drink

And we’re not even talking alcohol. Soft drinks are sugar rushes and weight gain in disguise. As are most supposed fruit juices and fruit drinks. Don’t be fooled. That word ‘fruit’ isn’t a guarantee of health, especially when it comes in a bottle.

So don’t just watch what you drink, watch what’s right there on a label. By law, all consumer goods must state their contents. Read, understand what you read and state your intent by sticking anything full of sugar and preservatives right back on the shelf.

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