Nina_S
10-31-2002, 07:23 PM
Here are some tips for curbing cravings:
It all boils down to the following Seven Steps:
1. Eat breakfast with protein
2. Journal what you eat and how you feel
3. Eat three meals a day with protein
4. Take the recommended vitamins and have a potato before bed
5. Shift from white foods to brown foods
6. Reduce or eliminate using sugars
7. Create a new life
I will talk about the Seven Steps of the plan in more detail in the next chapters, but here it is important for you to see how the steps fit with the science.
Step 1 (eating breakfast with protein) creates blood sugar stability and sets up having enough tryptophan in your blood to manufacture serotonin.
Step 2 (journaling) teaches you how to read your body and adjust the rhythm and pace to your own needs. Step 2 also teaches you to see which of the three legs of your biochemical stool most need balance.
Step 3 (three meals a day with protein) continues blood sugar stability and prepares for the increase of serotonin production.
Step 4 (having the vitamins and the nightly potato) increases your serotonin and gives your brain what it needs for the serotonin manufacturing to work well.
Step 5 (shifting from whites to browns) moves you away from your love affair with carbohydrates. It gives your body the positive effect of carbohydrates while eliminating the part that creates craving.
Step 6 (taking out the sugar) reduces the craving for sugar by eliminating beta-endorphin priming. Eliminating the priming heals the addiction.
Step 7 (finding radiance, or getting a life) teaches you the behaviors that enhance the increase of beta-endorphin.
The Seven Steps work their magic. You get a biochemical body-brain stool with three solid legs. You don't have to figure out a complex healing prescription; you just do the food, listen to your body and make the adjustments to heal your own sugar sensitivity and addiction. No outside expert, no one but you prescribes what is right for you. Whether you are male or female, whether you are fat or thin, whether you are depressed or addictive doesn't matter. The starting food plan is the same for all. The refinements come as you learn your body and your needs. Simplicity makes it work.
Excerpt from "The Sugar Addict's Recovery Program" by Kathleen DeoMaisons
It all boils down to the following Seven Steps:
1. Eat breakfast with protein
2. Journal what you eat and how you feel
3. Eat three meals a day with protein
4. Take the recommended vitamins and have a potato before bed
5. Shift from white foods to brown foods
6. Reduce or eliminate using sugars
7. Create a new life
I will talk about the Seven Steps of the plan in more detail in the next chapters, but here it is important for you to see how the steps fit with the science.
Step 1 (eating breakfast with protein) creates blood sugar stability and sets up having enough tryptophan in your blood to manufacture serotonin.
Step 2 (journaling) teaches you how to read your body and adjust the rhythm and pace to your own needs. Step 2 also teaches you to see which of the three legs of your biochemical stool most need balance.
Step 3 (three meals a day with protein) continues blood sugar stability and prepares for the increase of serotonin production.
Step 4 (having the vitamins and the nightly potato) increases your serotonin and gives your brain what it needs for the serotonin manufacturing to work well.
Step 5 (shifting from whites to browns) moves you away from your love affair with carbohydrates. It gives your body the positive effect of carbohydrates while eliminating the part that creates craving.
Step 6 (taking out the sugar) reduces the craving for sugar by eliminating beta-endorphin priming. Eliminating the priming heals the addiction.
Step 7 (finding radiance, or getting a life) teaches you the behaviors that enhance the increase of beta-endorphin.
The Seven Steps work their magic. You get a biochemical body-brain stool with three solid legs. You don't have to figure out a complex healing prescription; you just do the food, listen to your body and make the adjustments to heal your own sugar sensitivity and addiction. No outside expert, no one but you prescribes what is right for you. Whether you are male or female, whether you are fat or thin, whether you are depressed or addictive doesn't matter. The starting food plan is the same for all. The refinements come as you learn your body and your needs. Simplicity makes it work.
Excerpt from "The Sugar Addict's Recovery Program" by Kathleen DeoMaisons