How susceptible are you to sugar addiction?
Giving up sugar was one of the most significant achievements of my life. I am the biggest recovered sugar addict in the world (!!).
While sugar is the most addictive food there is, it doesn’t affect everyone that way. One of the key factors in sugar addiction is susceptibility.
I am one of the susceptible people and have had strong reactions to sugar all my life.
How can you tell if you are susceptible to sugar?
Well, it’s often genetic.
Do either of your parents have hypertension? Diabetes? obesity? Alcoholism?
What about depression? Or hypoglycemia (low blood glucose)?
Do you have an apple shaped body type? (This really matters if you’re a woman.)
Do you display any of these behaviors around sugar: compulsion to eat it, loss of control over how much you eat, unsuccessful efforts to quit, cravings?
Does sugar interfere with your health? Does it make you isolate yourself, miss important events, or use excessive exercise, self-induced vomiting, or laxatives to counteract the effects of the sugar you eat?
If any of these sound familiar, you may be addicted to sugar. But what if you gave up sugar? How could that change your life?
What Sugar Recovery can do for you
Sugar, actually the high insulin it causes, promotes inflammation and disease: diabetes, prediabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cholesterol, obesity, cancer, and more. Giving up sugar can reverse many, if not most, of those. Actually.
Sugar can cause mood swings, anxiety, depression, irritability. Quitting smoking can help reverse mood problems and make you feel good.
Sugar masses with your energy. It can make you lethargic and sleepy all day. Quitting smoking can restore your energy levels.
Sugar makes you eat more. Giving up sugar can help you regain control of your appetite.
Sugar makes you want junk food. Change food preferences so that you want sugary and/or high-fat foods. Quitting smoking can make healthy foods seem tasty again.
What else can sugar recovery do?
If you recently stopped drinking, sugar can make you crave alcohol and even cause a relapse. Quitting smoking can help prevent that and make you feel much better during your (ongoing and hopefully permanent) recovery.
Quitting smoking can make you a better role model for your children.
• Show them how you handled a big problem.
• Show them that you do what you say.
• Reverse past health problems so you can be there for key life events.
• Behave differently to treat them as they deserve.
• Become more ‘equivalent’ and less reactive to better manage other things as well.
In these and other ways, giving up sugar may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your health, your attitude, your appetite, your behavior, your recovery, your children.