4 Ways to Eat Less Sugar

So you decided it’s time to reduce sugar in your meals and definitely snacks!!!  Where do you start, how does one attempt to cut out the biggest addictive in our grocery stores. Sugar started to be added to grocery foods during the decades of 70 and 80s when FAT was seen as bad. To take Fat out of food, food isn’t as delicious so sugar was added to help the flavor. That’s one reason we are where we are now with sugar in almost everything.

1) Start with Protein in the morning. 

Most breakfast suggestions are high in carbohydrates, like cereal that start your body on the blood sugar rollercoaster that makes you crave more sugary food later in the day. Often 2 hours after you have ate. Re-evaluate your breakfast. Start with protein that is not high in nitrates. Try eggs with veggies and avocado, or try yogurt and homemade granola with spirulina or high protein smoothie.

2) Quit Cold Turkey

 – to do this you need steps on how to do it that satiate and satisfy. Come join Lively Life’s Group course starting Oct. 12, 2022, and yearly check here for next online course. This may sound extreme but it works, my clients notice they do not crave sugar, and that foods taste sweeter after the course.

3) Learn to Read Labels!

That is huge to understanding how much added sugars, how much carbohydrates and fiber are in the foods. Please eat real foods first!! For canned food select with no to little added sugar, and look for BPA free cans.

4) Get better sleep and reduce stress.

Not sleeping causes an increase in the ghrelin, the hunger hormone. Working on getting better sleep is a great endeavor and one worth continuous work!  Add sleep hygiene – dark room, cool room, loose or no clothes, and allow yourself to stop thinking. Wow I could go on about this – so definitely will in a future post. 

Stress also causes your body to crave sugar due to the increase in cortisol. Stress management is key.

These 4 ways and many more are covered in Lively Life’s Sugar Free Life online course starting Oct. 12, 2022 and annually so check the Shop for next group class if you are ready for a change. Or take one on one through 2 month Heatlhy Eating Life – Private Nutritional Coaching. It would be a pleasure to work with you. Check it out!