Did you ever hear the saying, “Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile”? Well, you can think of sugar the same way.
Take one bite of sugar and it’ll tell you to eat the whole bowl of ice cream, cookie, or candy bar. One little taste is never enough. The more you eat it the more you want it. The more you eat it the more you crave it.
For many people sugar is like a drug. They have ridiculously strong cravings for it – and when they do eat it they eat way too much of it.
That’s because sugar has a similar effect on the brain as cocaine does. It causes all these feel-good chemicals to explode into your body. Plus sugar’s taste turns your taste buds on like nothing else.
Sugar is highly addictive!
I have found for myself and many of my weight loss clients that sugar is not a substance to be played with. It is a substance to be controlled.
Keeping sugar out of your diet and out of your house will make healthy eating so much easier. Your taste buds can readjust to what whole foods taste like – fresh fruits and veggies, whole grains, unsweetened yogurt, etc. These foods begin to taste wonderful once you get sugar out of your system.
Sugar should only be eaten on occasion in a controlled manner, such as going out for an ice cream cone. It should not be part of your regular diet.
If you can cut sugar, you will cut your cravings. You will have much better control over your eating and actually enjoy the taste of healthy foods. Plus cutting sugar means better health and better weight loss!
