People who crave sugar in their diet will undoubtedly be
overweight. This is because your craving for sugar will not be satisfied with
one portion and you will constantly want more. Since there is a vast selection
of sweet foods and drinks everywhere; you will happily be able to feed and
satisfy your addiction to sugar, even when you are not hungry.
Eating sweet foods is an addiction, which is usually started
from childhood with sweetened drinks. It increases as you grow older to
drinking tea and coffee with sugar, which leads on to a desire for more sugar
in other things.
Refined white sugar is not good for your health, because it
is acidic, rots your teeth and adds worthless calories to your body. Like any
addiction, the best way to stop an addiction is to erase it cold turkey from
your diet. Then start eating natural sugar, as glucose in fresh and dry fruits.
The toughest part is doing without sugar at the beginning!
You may need support to do this, as you will probably hate the drink and think
it totally vile to drink. But you must keep drinking it, because your taste
will adjust to liking tea or coffee without sugar. Then you have won the
battle!
The same applies to carbonated drinks and fruit juices. You
have to learn to like drinking tap water with nothing in it. Again this will be
the hard part. Ever heard of visualization techniques? When you drink a glass
of fresh clean water, I want you to think of a waterfall with fresh and healthy
water. Now look at the glass and see how much better it looks, full of that
fresh water from the waterfall.
Now imagine the water running through your system cleaning
your organs and being lapped up by circulatory and lymphatic system. Think of
it feeding your body and making it feel comfortable inside. You may want to
drink another glass after going through that process! I drink my water out of a
wine glass, because I like to enjoy the experience of feeding my body with water
that my body yearns for keeping my body hydrated.
Now if someone offers you a coke, or lemonade. I want you to
visualize acid like vinegar; that is not good for your body. Hopefully you will
then want to decline, because it only provides wasted calories that your body
does not want or need in your body.
Drinking neutral water will calm your cravings for sugar and
you will become less interested in sugary drinks and foods. Even fruit juices
are loaded with sugar, so don’t substitute carbonated drinks with fruit juices.
You must learn to LIKE drinking water or filtered water and really believe it
is doing your body lots of good, because your body wants needs plain simple
water.
My advice for making water more palatable and better needed
for your body:
- Drink
before you eat and not during or after a meal, until an hour or so later
when your food has been digested. You can add a few sips during a meal if
the food is too dry to digest.
- Drink
when you are thirsty, to replenish the fluids in your body; such as after
exercise.
- Keep a
jug of water in the fridge, so you can always have a glass of refreshing chilled
water
- If
you are sitting at a table, put the water in a wine glass and you will enjoy savoring
the drink even more.
For your body to be healthy, you need to drink neutral
water; because your body is 80% water. To overcome an addiction to sugary
drinks and food; you need to start drinking neutral water as much as possible,
so that your body starts to crave for water instead of sugary drinks. It will
be a challenge at first, but once the habit has been knocked; you will reap the
rewards.
