How can I reduce my craving for sugar?!
I have been trying to drink herbal teas- no sweetner added. I think it is working somewhat. I just don't know if it will keep working.
Answers: I have a sweet tooth. I love candy, cakes, pies, cookies etc... Everyday it is a struggle not to eat them. Is there anything you have done to reduce craving sugar that worked?
I have been trying to drink herbal teas- no sweetner added. I think it is working somewhat. I just don't know if it will keep working.
Try eating a few sqares of dark chocolate when your cravings kick in. Its richness means that you will not be able to eat and eat it and a few squares will satisfy your sweet tooth.
If you are not a dark chocolate fan which many people are not buy some rich belgian chocolate ,put a piece under your tounge and let it melt there. This will intesify the flavour and overwhelm you with sweetness satisfying your cravings off infact very little sugar.
To kick the actual problem make sure you eat three meals a day and snack HEALTHILY at regular intervals. By skipping say, breakfast you are depriving your brain and body of fuelsetting yourself up to crave starchy or sugary foods for energy.
Cut down on salt! Excessive salt intake, form countless culprits makes you crave sugar so try to cut down
The herbal teas are a fantastic solution so continue your use of them, and keep yourself motivated by switching between the millions of exotic varieties available.
good luck!!
Mirina
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If need that sugar craving, use a natural product Agave.
Well of course having something sugary makes the craving worse. It pikes your blood sugar then it drops making you need more.
Increase your protein (snack on cheese or a bit of chicken or scramble an egg) and reduce your starchy foods (bread, potato) and of course avoid sugary or sweet foods. After a few days you will notice a drop in cravings.
Hypnotherapy has been known to help people avoid sugary things too.
Good luck!
If you cut out sugar & sweets (even artificially sweetened), the cravings will go away. You're right - as soon as you eat something sweet, you want more.
my dad eats fruits daily, like 6-8 fruits a day! yeah we call him the fruit freak or healthy freak! my dad is a phramacist. well fruits are really sweet and tasty and have quite a bit of sugar in them but they are really healthy at the dame time. but there is a catch, dont get addicited to one fruit, like dont just eat tangerines all day, make sure you eat 1 or 2 tangerines, then get a few sweet grapes, and an apple, and a slice of pinapple! it really works! good luck...i feel your pain!
There a good book by Dr. Richard Heller called The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet. It explains how people end up craving sugar and what to do about it.
I went through this myself. It takes about two weeks to break the cycle - then the cravings go away.
Make oatmeal and raisin cookies and eat more fruit. Fruit has sugar in it but no where near the amount in a choc bar, candy ect. You could also make sugar free jellies and eat yougurts. You can't cut sweet stuff out completely, just choose healthier options and quantities.
have your Doctor check to see if you have a systemic yeast infection. A lot of people have this and don't even know it. It may be that it isn't you that is craving the sweets, but the yeast in your intestines. one of the things that can make yeast grow out of control is antibiotics. If you take antibiotics and do not take acedolphilious the bacteria that keeps the yeast under control gets killed.
So, stay off the sweets totally and see your doc about the yeast thing.
this sounds ridiculous but it works, so much so they actually produce patched to buy, like nicotine ones, but the way it started out was, take a fabric band aid, and drop 2 or 3 drops of vanilla EXTRACT, not essence as its chemical, put the extract on the band aid, and stick it, say on the inside of your wrist, when you have a craving, sniff the band aid, inhaling the aroma of the vanilla will make the craving go away,
here are the patches you can buy, but this works as well as they do and costs a fraction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/848621...
http://www.herbalbynature.co.uk/crave_co...
When you get that craving go and brush your teeth for 2 minutes, After you have done that the chances are you wont want anything to eat at all. Also there is a huge bonus to this as you will have very white teeth.
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Check with your Doctor to make sure your not borderline diabetic
If not… The BEST and most affective way is to place rubber band on your wrist and EVERY time you crave a snack or sugar, snap the rubber band on your wrist. Be sure to snap it HARD… don’t be a puss… The harder the craving the harder the snap.
You need to deprogram your self away from the sweets. Obviously nothing is working.
There is no real good reason why your craving sweets other then just boredom. The quick sugar HIGH surpasses the time, but then your energy level is down even further then where it was.. This cycle is detrimental to your body.
Condition training is a harsh but an affective way to make your self stop for ever.