Hi there - I have researched this topic for c. 20 years and the findings ended up in a book called Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim . It s all about cravings - not just sugar - but bread, biscuits, cakes, even picked food.There are three very common medical conditions, Candida, Food Intolerance and Hypoglycaemia, which cause insatiable food cravings. All three will cause sugar cravings and they will also cause cravings for other foods. Professor John Yudkin wrote a book called Pure White Deadly , which was about sugar, not heroin! He thought sugar was one of the world s most addictive substances and I agree with him.You can contact me via the whydoyouovereat website (I ll happily mail you a free book - I want to help you). There s quite a bit of info and free questionnaires on the harcombe diet website. Check out the you tube videos and they will explain exactly what the 3 conditions are and how they cause sugar cravings. This is not your fault! You re a sugar addict, just like an alcoholic craves alcohol. It can be fixed, but you will need to come off sugar totally and only eat real food (meat, fish, eggs, cheese, milk, other dairy products, veg, salad, fruit, brown rice, whole meal pasta, baked potatoes, etc) The book will explain the withdrawal symptoms you will go through (just for 4-5 days) , what you need to eat to make sure you don t get hungry and lose the weight you ve just put on. It will also explain how you will be able to go back to eating anything but the key things you must do to make sure the addiction doesn t come back.Hope to hear from you!All the best - Zoe
When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together.If you exercise without dieting, you will get bigger appetite, whichwill lead to increase of weight, or muscle growunderneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier. If you diet withoutexercising, you will become flabby and will have excess skin. Fordiet, go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no foodafter 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending onyour initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. Ifyou don t eat wheat then you don t eat all those sticky, fatty goeycakes, you don t eat junk food, and you don t eat biscuits. But yourdiet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you do not have tocalculate points or to buy special meals or plans. For exercising,start with walking, and then switch to running/jogging. Running is themost efficient and calorie-burn exercise ever. If you are overweight alot, walk first or you may have health complications (heart attack,disjointed bones and so on). Weight lifting is a good means to targetyour problem areas for men and women. It s not necessarily to become abodybuilder or even join a gym - a couple of dumbbells will help youto target your problem areas (stomach, butt, legs, arms, chest).Try to eat dried fruit (not sugared fruit, mark), whenever you want to eat something sweet. They are healthy and lower in calories than candy. Dry apples, apricots, raisins.Use fructose in your tea. It s a natural sugar, which won t ruin your teeth and will be absorbed completely by your body.
There s no way to actually completely stop suger cravings. I m 28 and I ve had them my whole life. At the moment I am not eating any sweet things (cakes, chocolate, biscuits, sweets, desserts) for the months of January and February. Yeah, it s hard. I craved suger so badly for the first couple of weeks, but if you can get past that they do die down a bit but they never really go away. You just need to put your foot down and just say no
Buy some l-glutamine powder. Every time you have a sugar craving take a gram or two. Don t over do it though. Also exercise is really good for sugar cravings and just plain feeling good. Do some research.
