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Do you also belong to the people who can’t cope with any diet because of their addiction to sweets? There is no doubt that sugar is a real drug, so we’ve prepared a few tips for you on how to fight this enemy. You’ll avoid it more easily if you don’t crave it. But how to chase away thoughts of a favorite cake or hazelnut chocolate?
There are a few tricks that even scientists recommend. If it doesn’t work amicably and your own willpower regularly collapses like a house of cards, try using the following tips.
Nepoužívejte umělá sladidla
Many people reach for sugar substitutes thinking that they are indulging themselves, quenching their immense sweet craving and not sinning at all. The opposite is true. Scientists have shown that reduced-calorie foods that have to balance taste with artificial substitutes only contribute to the accumulation of fatty tissue in the body. After eating foods with artificial sweeteners, our craving for sweets and food in general actually increases.
Vyřaďte z jídelníčku oblíbenou sladkost
If it doesn’t work through willpower, you can use a psychological trick. Completely remove the sweet you like the most from your diet. That very one causes you so many problems and every time the craving for that product can break you or you tell yourself you’ll have just a piece. Tell yourself that from today this product is taboo for you. Avoiding other sweets will be much easier after just a few days.
Dělte na kousky
Another way to trick your own brain. If you take a chocolate bar and divide it into several small pieces, your brain will feel that you’ve indulged in more sweets. If you leave a bar of the same size whole, the brain considers it as one piece, which it subconsciously evaluates as a smaller portion. Learn to divide everything into smaller parts and gradually reduce them. This way you will get used to a lower intake of sweets.
Pijte méně kávy
If you think that when you drink coffee without sugar, milk or cream you’re in the clear, that’s not entirely so. Research shows that regular coffee consumption and caffeine intake increase insulin levels in the body. Coffee also increases cravings for sweets or you tend to flavor it. You can replace it with herbal teas.
Dopřejte si vitamín B
You should look for triggers behind the constant craving for sweets. One of them is stress. However, this huge reason why we reach for sweets doesn’t always have to control us. Replace sweets with vitamin B, which helps the body better handle stressful situations and brings our nervous system back to normal.
Jablečný ocet
Although weight loss thanks to apple cider vinegar is questionable, this liquid certainly can lower blood sugar levels. Just add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a bottle of plain still water and stir. Then drink this water during the day. You will help chase away the craving for sweets and benefit your health.
Přesný harmonogram
If you learn to eat regularly, you’ll avoid the “dead times” during which you don’t have time to eat and so chase away your hunger with sweets. The body won’t ask for little snacks if you give it food every day and regularly.
Ovoce k snídani
Of course, it would be a real hell without any sugar at all, so at least allow yourself some in the form of fruit. It is best consumed at breakfast because it immediately gives you the necessary energy, but provides it for the long term (unlike store-bought sweets).
Citronová šťáva
It should become the alpha and omega of your diet. Add lemon juice to your water, drizzle it over meat or use it to flavor your salad. Lemon juice can effectively reduce blood sugar levels by up to 10% and will chase away your constant craving for sweets as well as for food.
