Getting off the adequately termed «sugar train «can be difficult for many people as we all have some level
of sugar addiction going on.
Not exact matches
Schrock: Well, other researchers — I think there is a group at the University
of Minnesota — are looking into the possibility
of treating cocaine
addiction with other kinds
of rewards, so that's definitely an area they are
going to look into and they also think it has implications for obesity because if
sugar is this addicting and if we can treat it like an
addiction, we may be able to curb this obesity epidemic.
So once you adjust that post-workout meal by adding more carbohydrates than you were doing, you'll find that later on in the day, your body is not craving those carbohydrates like you kind
of suggested in your question, so step one is to make sure that you have already
gone through that — basically kind
of week long period where your breaking that
sugar addiction.
Coconut
sugar, pure maple syrup and honey are all forms
of natural unprocessed
sugar, but if you're
going to give up
sugar, I'd start only sweetening with stevia for at least a week to gain control over your
sugar addiction.
Also,
addiction in general spikes blood
sugar;
going cold turkey can cause drops in blood
sugar and symptoms
of hypoglycemia.
She says that doing a detox is the best way to give your body a break from digesting heavy foods and to let
go of emotional eating and
addiction to
sugar and caffeine.
Now, part
of that euphoria was probably due to coming off my coffee (I was a 2 - pot a day black coffee drinker) and
sugar withdrawal (I had a serious Haribo gummy bear
addiction,
going through nearly a pound a day).