Get Down And Get Dirty To Break A Sugar Addiction

Sometimes it helps to have an addictive personality if you can use it in a positive way.
For example getting up at 5 am to go to the gym or eating the same type of green foods every day and not the old sugar filled crap that once ruled/ruined your life.

What helped me break the bad habits was focusing on how toxic and harmful sugar is, instead of how bad I wanted it. At first the peanut butter cups still looked appealing, but I was able to stop and think about the chemical constituents of the chocolate, the high fat content, the spike insulin levels and the emotional toll it was going to have on me if I gave in to temptation. After 28 days or less, these thoughts became so ingrained that they are automatic, like breathing you don't even think about it anymore. When a chocolate easter bunny is sited near the check out line at the grocery store, I don't think I wanna bite that ear off right now, instead I see it for what it really is, toxic chemicals and depression in a pretty box.


At the start of the sugar kick it helps to have automatic visuals to go to when temptation hits.

For Example:

Chocolate…………think …………Mud, or dog Poop
Gummy Bears……think …………Wax
Peeps………………think ………………Mattress foam
Frosting………think ………………Street Paint
Oat Meal Cookies…………think …………Cat vomit
Chocolate Chip Cookies………think …………… Cat vomit with rat poop
Krispy Kreame Doughnuts……………….think….……recycled liposuction fat (my favorite)


This really works because sometimes the brain isn't going to do an automatic recap of the chemicals and preservatives used in the contraband to detour you, so this acts as the next best thing.


Each time I did this and said no to sugar it got easier and easier, until it no longer looked appealing.

I am going to put a more comprehensive list of the "visuals" on mysugarkick.com


If anyone has any other useful methods or suggestions please feel free to let me know.

Rock it today, because you can!!!!!

Kim:)

Use Your Houchie Heels To Quit Sugar Binges

Remember how excited you were when you saw those super cute Houchie heels at the mall and you just had to have them, no matter how high the credit card bill.

Then your bliss got instantly deleted after a sugar fix or 12. The giddy jumping, the heart pounding excitement, and all motivation for life in general disappears, and the heels end up in back of the closet never experiencing daylight, or pavement.

Sugar won the battle and left you feeling fat, empty and foggy. And it didn't even have to buy dinner first.

Sugar had the same effect on me as cocaine. I would eat it until it was completely gone, even if I felt sick afterwards and still want more the next day.

Thanks to medical imaging like MRI and PET scans there is scientific proof that sugar is as addictive as cocaine. The neurotransmitters in the brain light up at the anticipation of sugar just like the cocaine addict lights up in anticipation for coke.

After abusing sugar it takes more of the substance to have the same feel good reactions. So you need more of the drug to achieve the same high. Big food manufactures know this so they keep adding nasty chemicals to keep everyone foggy and addicted, and the addicts start young. The same way the cigarette manufactures add more nicotine to have customers for life.

When I was a sugar addicted robot I could no longer get "happy", I was just numb. Once I kicked sugar, about 2 months later I was driving to work and for whatever reason I actually noticed, holy crap, I'm happy and I feel good, no substances required. Amen!!!


To stay on the sugar free path I use the Houchie heels as motivation to keep on trucking with the raw foods, juices, nuts and seeds. And continually say F*ck you to sugar, you are not going to steel my happiness. And for this I am truly grateful every single day.

Keep On Trucking My Fellow Sugar Kickers :)

Make Short Term Goals And Eliminate Sugar Binges

Being a closet sugar addict enabled me to stay sick and addicted. I never made any plans to go out, have people over or seek a real healthy relationship. My only outing was to go to work and the drive thru. Other than that I stayed in my sweat pants and lived the solitary, lonely life as addict. If someone called with an invite or there was an event that I wanted to attend, with in seconds I made up an excuse why I couldn't go even if I really wanted to. After a while a year passed and I realized that HOLY CRAP A YEAR PASSED!!!!! and I literally did nothing to even try to have a life. I was a sugar addicted robot, and I only worked slept and ate. After I kicked, scratched and fought my way out of the fog, using raw foods, I started to make short term plans and goals. I became READY FOR LIFE, instead of waiting and praying for someone to rescue me, which never happens anyway (trust me you are never going to find your tall dark and handsome dream man/woman in the drive through of the local Taco Bell). Yes, work is hell, but it's always going to be hell, so you have to be flexible and work around your schedule in order to have a life and stay healthy. Even if that means less sleep once in a while. Make plans to go out on a Thursday, that way you have something to look forward to. During the week you keep your eyes on the prize, eliminate sugar binges, work out, go to sleep early, etc. I like Thursday and Sunday outing, since the weekend is covered too. If there is an upcoming wedding, high school reunion, birthday party, whatever, it may be too far down the road. What worked best for me is having weekly events. If the event isn't immediate, there is still room to misbehave, and you don't want to cancel, AGAIN. Life is too short to be controlled by sugar and starchy carbs. Time is precious and goes by too fast. GET UP, DUST OFF THE SUGAR, MAKE WEEKLY GOALS UNTIL THIS BECOMES A HABIT (ONLY 28 DAYS) AND FEEL YOURSELF BECOME PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY STRONGER EACH DAY, GUARANTEED!!!!!

Use Your Anger To Burn Fat Fast

The state of anger is not a fun or healthy place to be in. It raises your blood pressure, raises cortisol levels, cause telomeres to shrink, which causes premature ageing and a myriad of other negative autonomic reactions to take place with in milliseconds. So instead of staying in that angry place, make your anger work for you, by using it to propel you into action. Rather than going to the nearest Krispy Kreame or in my case Taco Bell, take that energy and run, literally, or briskly walk around the block. Do 50 jumping jacks, find a set of stairs to do sprints on. Grab a jump rope and try to keep it up for 3 minutes. Whatever activity you decide to do will burn fat along with the negative feelings and anxiety from the causative event. A litte goes a long way and adds up through out the day. Don't be an all or nothing, or I'll do it tomorrow person. Do it immediately and feel the benefits immediately. Any activity for even 5 minutes, will release serotonin, the feel good hormones, lower blood pressure, elevate your mood into a healthier state and BURN FAT, as well as distract you from peanut butter cups which are going to only disappoint. Guaranteed! Sugar and junk food rob you of money, energy, and motivation. Working out does the exact opposite. Stressful things are everywhere and often unavoidable. Turning anger into motivation will be the rocket fuel needed to make you take action and get out of that stressful funk almost immediately. Most days I'm super stressed and crazy at work so I turn to the stairwell during lunch to sprint off my anxiety and bad mood. At first I couldn't even reach the top without huffing and puffing and now I sail to the top without even blinking an eye. It's saved me from some crying spells too. lol :0 Instant gratification is a band aid, which usually causes people to chase their tail. Hard work always off and never disappoints. STOP BEING A VICTIM, GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND ROCK IT TODAY! BECAUSE YOU CAN!

DUMP SUGAR BINGES AND IMPULSE BUYING

ONCE I GOT A GRIP ON MY SUGAR ADDICTION, BY TURING TO RAW FOODS, I STARTED TO FEEL A SENSE OF CLARITY AND PEACE THAT I HAD NEVER KNOWN BEFORE. AFTER THE FOG CLEARED I BEGAN TO REALIZE HOW MUCH MATERIAL CRAP I WAS BUYING FOR NO REASON. I WOULD BE IN THE GROCERY STORE TO GET WHATEVER JUNK FOOD WAS ON MY LIST AND I WOULD END UP BUYING A PACKAGE OF HEADBANDS, SOCKS, MAKE UP AND PURPLE CAPRI YOGA PANTS. I DON'T EVEN LIKE PURPLE. YES, I LOVE SHOES AND PURSES LIKE MOST FEMALES BUT WAS BUYING A PACKAGE OF HEADBANDS, RANDOM SOCKS AND YOGA PANTS, THAT I DON'T NEED GOING TO MAKE ME HAPPY. HELL NO!!!! AFTER YEARS AND YEARS OF EATING POUNDS OF SUGAR, BUYING RANDOM PURSES, SHOES THAT I NEVER WORE, AND TONS OF MAKE UP, I DISCOVERED THAT THIS STUFF WILL NEVER MAKE ME HAPPY. I'VE TRIED TO PURCHASE HAPPINESS AND I ALWAYS END UP DISAPPOINTED. LEFT WITH A CLOSET FULL OF STUFF THAT'S NEVER USED AND ONLY CREATES A MESSY DISTRACTION. SUGAR ONLY PROVIDED TEMPORARY PAIN RELIEF AND ONCE I WAS ABLE TO CLIMB OUT OF THE FOG I WAS ABLE TO STOP IMPULSE BUYING AND FOCUS ON BUILDING HEALTH AND INTERNAL HAPPINESS. THERE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A CUTE PURSE, SHOES, OR MAKE UP, BUT THERE IS NO CLOSET BIG ENOUGH TO FILL THE VOID THAT MOST PEOPLE CARRY AROUND. AFTER SWITCHING TO ALKALIZING, DETOXIFYING FRUITS AND VEGGIES I AM HAPPY, CALM AND HAVE INNER PEACE. AND THE EXHAUSTING SEARCH FOR SOMETHING OR SOME ONE TO MAKE ME FULFILLED IS FINALLY OVER. YEEEE HAAAA!!!