5 Ways to Free Yourself From Excess Sugar in Just 2 Weeks!

Dare to reduce your sugar intake starting from now? Follow the 5 challenging steps below!

 

Consuming anything sweet including sugar can make you happier. For sugar-seekers, the immediate remedy to hectic times would be sipping a cup of tea or coffee or eating cookies and ice cream. However, we also know that excessive sugar intake can be a threat to your physical and mental health, so perhaps it is time to stop consuming sugar excessively. There are five steps to do this according to Nicole Avena, Ph.D, who wrote a book titled Why Diets Fail: Because You’re Addicted to Sugar. Let’s find out!

 

Step 1: Get Rid of Beverages

Check your habit of consuming light beverage, perhaps you might have been substituting plain water with the currently popular option of bottled tea drinks. Try to remember your habit of consuming tea, coffee, syrup, and soda. Nicole challenges you to stop drinking light beverage for two weeks. If you are bored with water, perhaps you can fix a cup of tea or coffee without the sugar.

 

Step 2: Get Rid of High-Sugar Snacks

How often do you munch on candies, cakes, wafer, or cookies in a day? Is it still within the normal limit? If not, try to change this habit! First, identify all the high-sugar snacks that you like to have. If possible, write down a list and stick it to your work desk or on the fridge. Afterwards, stop consuming everything on the list for the next two weeks. One strategy would be to substitute those food with fruits, a proven healthier snack.

 

Step 3: Get Rid of Simple Carbs

In the next two weeks, you can start reducing your carbohydrate intake. You might not realize that you have been depending on white bread, kerupuk, or rice in a big portion. From now on start reducing your high carb intake within the next two weeks. Try substituting simple carbohydrate-loaded food with other types of food such as vegetables because vegetables are good for your body and digestive system.

 

Step 4: Beware of the Hidden Sugar!

This step is a bit tricky and it might take time to be able to know what types of food have hidden sugar content. What you do need to know is that there are several food that contains sugar such as agave nectar, Barbados sugar, beet sugar, cane crystals, lactose, treacle, sucrose, organic raw sugar, and mannitol. Even though they sound healthy but they still contain sugar!

 

Step 5: Keep it up!

Munching on cookies once in a while during your sugar diet is not going to compromise your diet. However, some people would actually crave for more and more sweets. Are you the kind of person who cannot resist such temptation? Don’t worry, once you have gotten rid of the cravings, you can consume a maximum of six teaspoons of sugar a day, you would begin to feel that sugar


Originally published on Fimela.com. Translated and edited by Gold's Gym Indonesia.