Tips To Help You Quit Sugar Fast

The writers at Healthy and Natural World totally understand what it's like to be neck deep in a love affair with sugar.

It’s 4pm, you are sitting in your office and you are getting that all too familiar craving. You don’t smoke, you are not an alcoholic and you don’t take drugs. You may not even drink coffee. However, you do eat a lot of chocolate and cookies. Basically, anything sweet and delicious. Yep, that’s right, you may be addicted to sugar.

Yep, that's me. Many of us can admit that we're probably addicted. If you're like me, you just don't know how to break up with sugar.

Here are some of the great suggestions from the list:

1. Eat regularly

Because we are often very busy, we tend to eat irregularly. For many people, if they don’t eat regularly, their blood sugar levels drop, they feel hungry and are more likely to crave sugary snacks. Eating three meals and two snacks or five small meals a day will help you to maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Eating a good breakfast is essential to prevent sugar cravings. Instead of having carbs and sugary foods for breakfast, include in your breakfast protein, healthy fat, fruits or vegetables. Try to include healthy fat and protein with each meal, as it helps control blood sugar levels.

2.Get enough sleep

For those who try to maintain a healthy weight and quit sugar, lack of sleep is not recommended at all. Fatigue makes people hungrier, and people who don’t sleep enough hours tend to consume hundreds of calories more a day (much of it in the form of unhealthy sweet foods). You can find here more information about the damages of sleep deprivation.

3. Watch out for sugar substitutes

This includes ‘healthy sugar’ too, such as honey, maple syrup, or molasses. They may contain more nutrients than the refined white stuff, but unfortunately, sugar is sugar, and once it is in your body, it turns into what? You said it – sugar. Using stevia leaves is the best option, although some people don’t like the taste of it.

I know I struggle with eating regularly and getting enough sleep. What mom doesn't? It's a rite of passage to subsist on forgotten fruit snacks and discarded sandwich halves throughout the day.

As far as sleep goes, didn't we all give that up the day we brought our kids home from the hospital? I'm pretty sure I haven't really slept since then… not the way I did before we had kids anyway.

Excuses aside, it looks like I'll have to get these things under control and stop convincing myself that honey is an acceptable substitute for sugar if I want to break my addiction.

What about you? Need more tips? You can see the complete list of 13 effective ways to quit sugar at Healthy and Natural World.