How to Beat Food Cravings
Learning how to eat fresh, living, whole foods is the key of how to beat food cravings. It will also help you reach your ideal weight, strengthen your immune system, boost your energy and your mood. By focusing on adding the highest quality foods to your diet your body will become balanced and this is how you control food cravings.
Breaking cravings for sugar and other foods can seem like an impossible challenge for most people. Especially if you've been struggling with food cravings most of your life and you have no idea where to start.
It takes 3-5 days for most people to stop sugar cravings when they use a natural whole foods diet and remove sources of sugar from their diet. This includes gluten containing grains and flour products, dairy products, table sugar, honey and other sweeteners as well as the temporary removal of fruit as well. We remove fruit for a short period of time as this helps to keep blood sugar balanced, which is key to reducing cravings for sugar and sweet foods.
By reducing the sugar in your diet you will also improve your digestion and reduce digestive symptoms like bloating, gas, constipation and diarrhoea. Because you are reducing the artificially sweet foods in your diet you will start to enjoy the sweetness of vegetables and once your re-introduce them again fruits.
Once you know how to beat food cravings it's a skill you'll always have. You'll know how to eat for energy, keep your blood sugar balanced and get all the nutrients you need for true wellness. A natural, whole food diet is how to eat to be the best you possible.
If you'd like to learn how to control food cravings for good with my step by step, back to basics Sugar Detox then find out more below.
Stop Sugar Cravings with my Back to Basics Sugar Detox
While learning how to beat food cravings you will be eating an alkaline diet. Lots of vegetables, high in phytonutrients and water to help nourish your body. An alkaline diet will help you to drop weight, boost your energy and stop your food cravings. There are so many health benefits to breaking your sugar habit but the biggest benefit of following a sugar detox is that you will learn to turn on your body intuition. This will help you identify which foods work for you as an individual and which foods work against your health.
Ideally you will carry many of these positive health habits into your future to create optimum wellness in your life. If however you slip back into your old routines you have the tools to balance your blood sugar and stop your sugar cravings again at any time.
If you have any questions about the sugar detox or want to know if it's right for you then get in touch with me at: lisa@vibrantnutrition.com.au