Brush your teeth after every meal (or sugary snack) and especially after dinner or supper. Brushing your teeth will then become a mental trigger that tells your body the eating is done.
When I was a teenager I adored Coca Cola. I drank it in huge quantities & I believe it helped me become severely obese; zero calorie made no difference. The gas enlarged my stomach & as the speaker stated just the sweet taste addicted me. Strange how being ice cold made it attractive yet when ‘flat’ & warm it was awful (its real state). I haven’t touched it for many years now. If you place a dirty coin in a glass of it for an hour, it cleans it - so what do those chemicals do to our bodies ?
I used to fight w/ my kids at the grocery store every time they grabbed sweet stuff like candies, chocolate & sodas. I only allow them 5 candies on chinese new year and 5 on halloween. Now all of us can control ourselves in eating processed sugar, except donuts when i make them. The bananas & watermelon cubes kept them company throughout their school yrs. Both are now grown up: 1 in high school the other graduated from college.
I'm so old that snacks and candy were not available, we made our foods from scratch. I only had ice cream when I was a kid at my birthday and during the winter when snow ice cream was made, maple syrup over snow!
Topic suggestion: Colonoscopies - What does they do for gut health? I was told to eat LOW fiber for 3 days before the fast day (I can't think of any low fiber foods which will not spike my blood sugars), how necessary are they? Lots of questions.
They are super important! Colonoscopies are how they test you for colon cancer. Once you get to a certain age, it's incredibly important to get them every few years.
If you cannot get to talk to your doc, rather just fast for two days if you are in danger of flipping your blood sugar out - and monitor regularly. (In South Africa the docs don’t bother to tell us that…. We just get given ‘bowl cleanser’ to flush us out a day beforehand).
Have you listen to Dr. B when he is on this podcast? He addresses some of those issues. As a colon cancer survivor I will say thay colon cancer screenings are life saving!
The best way to stop sugar cravings is to eat so much healthy, delicious, sugar free food, that you don't have space in your stomach for any sweets, repeat for 1-4 weeks, and you're good. Stop pretending that you can willpower yourself out of a sugar addiction. If you crave sugar, eat a bunch of blueberries, sweet potato, apples, etc, until you feel so stuffed that the fact that your stomach is about to burst takes precedence over the need to get that sugar fix. It takes no willpower to eat delicious non sugared food, and it takes no willpower to fend off sugar cravings when you're about to burst. Just have a support system for when you get sugar-withdawal-depression and remember why you started to kick the sugar habit.
I know white sugar isn’t great for you. I love sweet treats so I’m trying to be realistic. What would the best alternative be?? Raw local honey? Organic coconut sugar? Organic minimally processed maple syrup? What you think??
Yea I used to be addicted to Nutella but staying away from it and other hyper sweet things I am able to see it as what it really is poison as it rewires our brains to expect sweeter things and fruits have such lower sugars it makes us crave processed garbage. LOL I have worked mid shift for 2 years and weigh less than I did in high school. I unicycle and juggle for fun. Unicycling is great for your abbs and some muscles few of us use. My body is already adapt to sleeping during the day. And eat dinner around 3am. Doing that I have more energy than even my kids. I am 50 years old. I do need to get bloodwork done but I feel so good I feel like I don't need to but I know I do.
Are you taking Vitamin B12? I recommend taking both Vitamin B12 and iron. Try and take the iron supplement with something that has Vitamin C, which increases iron absorption. Also, avoid calcium fortified plant milks when taking that supplement and instead take it at a different time of day. Calcium inhibits iron absorption. If this does not help, I recommend seeing a doctor, and possibly being tested for inflammatory bowel disease or other autoimmune diseases.
Blackstrap molasses, fortified cream of wheat, quinoa, some firm tofu have alot of iron per serving. There's a book 'becoming vegan' by Davis and Vesanto that explains basic nutrients on a vegan diet.
