Healthy Habit Hack: Simple Tips on HOW You CAN Ditch Sugar

Today’s healthy habit hack is how you can actually ditch the sugar from your diet.

Debbie:

One of the greatest things you need to do is start reading the labels.
You can pick up all kinds of food and it’ll say keto on it it’ll say sugar-free on it then you’ll turn it around and lo and behold the second ingredient ends in OSE and that is sugar.

They try to sneak it in – they don’t call it sugar but sucrose and that’s is sugar, fructose is sugar. If you are unsure, google the word to see what it means but. 

My biggest tip is to turn over the package and read the ingredients. 

The other thing is, the first word in the ingredients usually is the most of what is in that item so if something is last then there’s the least amount in there. 

Tracee:

Last week at Costco a food says “keto-friendly” or keto and it’s a snack, and when I turned it over it had pure cane sugar and rice syrup which is both sugars. They will try to trick you. So you have to be your own detective – your own sugar detective.

With that said, clean out your environment.

Your brain hormones actually will fire off, it’s just anticipating you having that sugary snack. 

So if you have stuff lurking in your pantry or in your refrigerator, you need to ditch it.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Debbie:

Another one is, don’t get yourself to the point where you are so hungry or you’re craving sweets.

Don’t think about what you can’t have, think about the plethora of food you can have. You can have some bacon, you can have a hamburger, you can put some mayonnaise on there to satisfy yourself so you’re not feeling deprived, so you’re not wondering what’s missing.

Just think of what you can have not and what you can’t have. Makes it so much easier because there’s so much you can have.

Tracee:

I think the last one is to manage your stress because oftentimes when we crave chocolate or sweets, and it’s because we are either trying to increase pleasure or avoid pain. 

So when we’re stressed out, that’s when we always reach for that chocolate or sweet treats. We are trying to get that dopamine hit. 

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