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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

HoneyRockette
11-01-2002, 01:40 PM
How helpful. Thank you for posting this. Easier said than done, but helpful nonetheless.

Honey Vibe
11-12-2002, 11:58 PM
This greatly helped a friend of mine:
Her regime is simple. She only eats sugar after 7:00 pm. As much as she wants.

Stupid? Not quite!: because she's not taking sugar throughout the day, eventually it cuts down her sugar intake substantially. It's just a pre-step down, and with time she doesn't even have sugar cravings after seven! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

hada7
11-13-2002, 06:36 PM
Well I am not an expert but the BEST time to have sugar is BEFORE 7pm. Your metabolism starts to slow down in the evening. The best time to have sugar is in the earlier parts of the day. ( you are safer if you have it after a good long work out as the body will burn it off.) As much as she wants?!? hmmm. I would limit it too, especially in the evening. In my opinion, not a good idea. Unless someone knows some scientific reasoning behind it. I have never heard of this and all fitness mags I have read, say, No no! When I had sugar in the evening, I gained weight, believe me I know. Now that I cut out sugars, or should I say sweets, this includes KoolAid and ice-t and sodas, I have lost alot of weight.

Not good to sleep on sugar, it will just pack ont he pounds when you sleep.

Unless you meant to say "she doesn't have sugar before 7:00 pm."

Hada

hada7
11-13-2002, 06:37 PM
should read after 7:00 pm. (me sleepy just workout) /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Hada

Honey Vibe
11-14-2002, 01:18 AM
It may be true that your metabolism is more active during the day, but you may see that fact actually works in your favor to curb sugar cravings. During the stomach pangs of the day, you are forcing yourself to eat healthy foods instead of loading up on sugar. The happy ending is that by the end of the day, you're not interested in eating sugar anyway.

mkstar826
06-05-2005, 01:22 PM
*bump* for the get off the sugar challenge ladies :D

shawniegee
06-05-2005, 02:49 PM
Very informative. But I think I'mma add pray because it's go take a serious supernatural miracle to get me to stay away from sugar. I get scurred just thinkin' about.

Poohbear
06-05-2005, 04:53 PM
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!!!

webby
06-05-2005, 05:22 PM
I'm going to have to print this.

lkg4healthyhair
06-05-2005, 09:52 PM
Interesting......when I told my nutritionist about my sugar cravings (in the afternoon) she told me to have nuts, and this helped a lot.

Realisticly I try to be good M-F then if I want something sweet on the weekends I have it.

Country gal
06-05-2005, 10:39 PM
Very informative. But I think I'mma add pray because it's go take a serious supernatural miracle to get me to stay away from sugar. I get scurred just thinkin' about.

Me too. Can't resist the sugar. Thanks for posting. I had not seen these steps before.

Country gal
06-05-2005, 10:40 PM
Interesting......when I told my nutritionist about my sugar cravings (in the afternoon) she told me to have nuts, and this helped a lot.

Realisticly I try to be good M-F then if I want something sweet on the weekends I have it.


Sunflower seeds help me with my sugar cravings.

val1212
06-06-2005, 03:03 AM
Wow! Thanks for the info.

PhonyBaloney500
06-09-2005, 12:05 AM
Sooo would you say having no sugar added doo dads (cookies, icecream, etc.) after 7pm would be safe? ;)

LyndseyJK
01-12-2009, 10:19 PM
BUMP.
I am a sugar addict. I am trying to cut down on my sugar (for my health and to hopefully decrease my acne). I dont know if I'm strong enough to cut out sugar entirely. Can I start with switching to organic sugar, raw sugar, or agave nectar?? Do these create health and acne problems like regular sugar does?

topnotch1010
01-13-2009, 03:34 AM
I used to be a sugar ADDICT! I broke my cycle by cutting all liquid sugar from my diet (i.e. sweet tea, juice, even flavored waters) because I know the body does not register them like they would something solid like a slice of cake. That dramatically reduced my sugar cravings. Now, I am satisfied with having half of a correct portion size of something sweet once a week, if that, and I make sure to drink plenty of water behind it to wash the sugar off my tongue so I won't start craving again.

butterfly_wings
01-13-2009, 06:45 AM
I find raisins help with my sugar carving, before I couldn't go through lunchtime without some sort of chocolate usually a muffin or cake, now I have raisins instead

Supergirl
01-13-2009, 11:06 AM
I have found that if I can go 2 or 3 days without it, cravings become pretty non-existent.

It is unrealistic to expect yourself to be able to go cold turkey on cutting out sugar (but if you're that strong, go right ahead! :D) But I'd say the first step is to at least get control of it. When you no longer feel like you have to have it, you've made some good progress.