How To Avoid Food Cravings

The only way to really successfully prevent food cravings is to take control of your sugar addiction. A majority of people that are overweight are addicted to sugar. However few people realize that this is even possible.

When you eat food that is sugary and high in refined carbohydrates your body releases a hormones that make you feel good. These hormones are called endorphines and when sugar is consumed the endorphines released into the bloodstream are serotonin and norepiniephrine. The release of these feel good endorphines is caused by high levels of insulin in the blood stream, which is triggered by the sugar.

The insulin breaks this sugar down quickly leading to a rapid drop in endorphiones, which leaves you feeling tired and lethargic and generally a little sad. The solution is to eat more sugar to feel good again. It does not take long to set up a vicious cycle of consuming sugar, getting a buzz from the endorphines, suffering a sugar crash, and repeating the process. Whenever you reach for a cake, biscuit, chocolate or bread it is because your body is craving the sugar that they contain. This is the major cause of weight gain, fatigue and mood swings in most people.

Sugar is the main reason why you become overweight, not over consumption of fat or protein.

The only way to overcome these sugar cravings is to reduce the amount of sugar that you eat. Stop eating sugar, cakes, biscuits, candy, ice cream and foods made from refined flours such as white bread and pasta. One of the reasons why low carbohydrate diets are effective in the early stages is that they dramatically reduce sugar consumption.

To overcome your food cravings give up sugar for four weeks. Consume nutritious salads, vegetables and fruits instead – but avoid dried fruits and concentrated fruit juices, as these contain a lot of sugar too. Wholegrains and fresh vegetables help to control sugar cravings. One trick is to take a teaspoon of L-Glutamine powder before meals as this helps to control appetite. Also eat lots of tomatoes, as recent research has shown that these also help to suppress appetite.

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