Simply Sweet Solutions - Stop Singing the Sugar Blues
One of the simplest ways to improve your overall health and wellbeing is to reduce or eliminate sugar from your diet.
With this one change, you can experience more energy, better sleep, less cravings, less illness and many more positive benefits.
The following simple solutions will show you how to reduce or eliminate sugar from your diet.
You don't have to make a dramatic change overnight.
Start with a few small changes and stay with it until you've kicked the habit.
You can do it! Understand sugar.
When most people hear the word "sugar" they think of the white stuff on the table in their favorite diner.
But any simple carbohydrate is a simple sugar, absorbing quickly causing blood sugar highs and lows.
Complex carbs are comprised of chains of simple sugars.
They create balanced blood sugar levels and provide needed nutrients.
To look and feel your best, limit simple sugars in your diet and increase complex carbs.
Eat less sugar.
Like attracts like, especially with a highly addictive substance like sugar.
Have you noticed when you indulge in candy, soda or ice cream, you tend to crave them again the next day? By reducing your sugar intake today, you could see an immediate reduction in sugar cravings tomorrow.
One teaspoon of sugar equals 4 grams, contains an average of 15 calories, and is equivalent to one sugar packet.
Be a food detective.
Learn to recognize sugar's many disguises and discover sources of excess sugar.
Food manufacturers take advantage of sugar's addictive quality by adding simple sugars to a variety of products, including cakes and candies, and less obvious products like ketchup, soups, sauces, salad dressing, bread, cereal and yogurt.
Read the labels and know what you're eating.
Look for high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar and words ending in -ose on the ingredients list.
Know the negative effects of sugar.
Excess sugar leads to obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Sugar weakens your immune system, contributes to depression, and fuels cancer cells.
It can contribute to cholesterol imbalance, osteoporosis, tooth decay and more.
Next time you reach for a snack, consider the potential dangers hiding beneath your treat's icing.
Connect with your big "Why".
Making change requires a big commitment to succeed.
Dig deep to discover a reason to reduce sugars that has more to do with your life's greater purpose (as a parent, an athlete, an artist, a role model), than with a pant size.
To your awesome life, Heather
With this one change, you can experience more energy, better sleep, less cravings, less illness and many more positive benefits.
The following simple solutions will show you how to reduce or eliminate sugar from your diet.
You don't have to make a dramatic change overnight.
Start with a few small changes and stay with it until you've kicked the habit.
You can do it! Understand sugar.
When most people hear the word "sugar" they think of the white stuff on the table in their favorite diner.
But any simple carbohydrate is a simple sugar, absorbing quickly causing blood sugar highs and lows.
Complex carbs are comprised of chains of simple sugars.
They create balanced blood sugar levels and provide needed nutrients.
To look and feel your best, limit simple sugars in your diet and increase complex carbs.
Eat less sugar.
Like attracts like, especially with a highly addictive substance like sugar.
Have you noticed when you indulge in candy, soda or ice cream, you tend to crave them again the next day? By reducing your sugar intake today, you could see an immediate reduction in sugar cravings tomorrow.
One teaspoon of sugar equals 4 grams, contains an average of 15 calories, and is equivalent to one sugar packet.
Be a food detective.
Learn to recognize sugar's many disguises and discover sources of excess sugar.
Food manufacturers take advantage of sugar's addictive quality by adding simple sugars to a variety of products, including cakes and candies, and less obvious products like ketchup, soups, sauces, salad dressing, bread, cereal and yogurt.
Read the labels and know what you're eating.
Look for high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar and words ending in -ose on the ingredients list.
Know the negative effects of sugar.
Excess sugar leads to obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Sugar weakens your immune system, contributes to depression, and fuels cancer cells.
It can contribute to cholesterol imbalance, osteoporosis, tooth decay and more.
Next time you reach for a snack, consider the potential dangers hiding beneath your treat's icing.
Connect with your big "Why".
Making change requires a big commitment to succeed.
Dig deep to discover a reason to reduce sugars that has more to do with your life's greater purpose (as a parent, an athlete, an artist, a role model), than with a pant size.
To your awesome life, Heather
