Reblog if you are DETERMINED to SUCCEED on reaching your weightloss goals before 2011 ends.
a little test
i have set myself a little test, just for a fun challenge. I will not eat sugar for 24 - 48 hours. Any foods that have sugar in the top 3-5 ingredients wont be eaten (except fruit, lactose and glucose). It is just a fun challenge, if I fail I wont be sad or angry, just curious to see how many products I eat that are high in sugar and what its like without that added ingredient.
THIS VIDEO IS AMAZINGLY INFORMATIVE. IT IS A MUST WATCH FOR EVERYONE TRYING TO LIVE A HEALTHY LIFE OR BATTLING BINGING. YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT FOOD LABELS THE SAME AGAIN
Sugar. Is what happens when you take a substance out of nature and refine it to maximize its chemical surface area and biological activity. Cocaine is a drug that’s refined from coca leaves. Opium is a drug that’s refined from poppies. And sugar is a drug that’s refined from sugarcane. And while we have a “war on drugs” against cocaine and heroin, our taxpayer dollars actually subsidize the sugar industry, making refined white sugar cheap and widely available to the entire population so that everyone can be equally hooked.
Sugar addicts anonymous
A sugar addiction is something that is definitely setting me up for failure in my healthy eating plan. I have only recently discovered this about myself. The daily binge now has a cause and emotions aren’t at the center. I honestly believe I have a sugar addiction and from my research I totally support the idea that a sugar addiction is just as powerful as a herion addiction (or what I imagine it is like to be seriously addicted to a substance that changes the chemicals in you’re brain).
I have started a new page that is full of interesting articles I have found to help me learn more about it. Losing weight and living a healthy life must be sustainable and if not dealt with at the roots, the problems that caused me to live an unhealthy lifestyle will only come back to haunt me and set me up for failure. It’s very reasuring to know it takes more than will power to fight this. As I learn more, I want to share things with you, so be sure to visit this page and share your knowledge of sugar addiction and binge eating associated with it, with me.
After going off track and gaining almost all my weight back, I have started training my mind, as inspired by my reblog yesterday. Before I do anything bad (binge) 2 things go through my head. “Don’t take the first bite (because it wont be the last)” and “dear mind, work with me, not against me”. These little reminders got me through my first binge free day in a while. It really isn’t that I’m not getting enough food or that I’m binging because I haven’t allowed for sweet things in my diet - it’s that I can binge, I love food and I don’t have to stop that is whats doing it. And all of this is coming from my mind. Training my mind to work with me, not against me here is what I need to make work here, and I’m determined that it will, until it becomes routine and I become more disciplined. This mind training trick also worked a treat on my run yesterday :)
