Did you know you don’t have to believe everything you think about sugar? Have you ever thought about the things running through your head? Are you craving sugar and sure you have a sugar addiction? If you think you have a sugar addiction take the quiz here and find out. Your thoughts about sugar are the enemy.
Your Thoughts About Sugar
There is a lot of information out about sugar and what it does to the body. It is healthier for you to have less or no refined sugar. That doesn’t mean you can never have sugar. It doesn’t mean you should beat yourself up about the sugar you have. You do not have to be a victim of your thoughts about sugar.
That’s a lot of the problem. You believe that sugar is doing something to you. I’ve even told you that Miss Sugar is your manipulative friend. The reason that is true is that you and most people choose for it to be true.
I hear you now. “No you don’t understand, I have to eat this.” I get it. I get it so much. I too thought I had to have chocolate almost every day. I also thought that it was something that was out of my control. I thought no one else would or could understand.
You are Special but You are Not a Unicorn
You are not a unicorn. I am not a unicorn. Yes, we all have different experiences and pasts and traumas. These life experiences often result in that same thing. A habit of eating our thoughts away. The problem is that the food and dopamine hit relieves us for a moment but then the thoughts roll back in and we are right back to wanting that chocolate fix. Often times a few seconds after that last piece went in our mouths.
Why does this happen? What can we do?
Understand that chocolate, chips, ice cream, or cheese with crackers are not the problem. Food no matter what it is made of is not the enemy. Your thoughts about the food and about the circumstances of your life. That is the enemy.
Out of habit and past experience you allow your thoughts to happen. When thoughts just happen your habits keep happening with them.
If you have always soothed yourself with ice cream then that’s what your brain wants, looks for, and asks to have.
If you stuff your emotions down with chocolate then you will keep doing it.
If cookies find their way into your mouth the second you get home from work and have a chance to relax. It will keep happening until you find a way to break the habit and change your thoughts.
I know this may be new to think about what your thoughts are but give it a shot.
Do This Exercise
I tricked you. Not a workout for your body but a workout for your brain.
Take out a piece of paper. When I say the word “sugar” what do you think?
Write what you think about sugar. Is it good or bad? How do you relate to sugar? How does your family relate to sugar? Just anything. Write about sugar for 1 minute.
Now, look at what you wrote. Are there only negative words about sugar or did you write some positive words?
How does your body feel after writing about sugar? Are you sad or depressed or happy and vibrant having done this exercise?
Slay the Thought Enemy
If everything you wrote and how you feel is negative, sad, bad, depressed, mad when you think about sugar, then there is a thought enemy you need to slay.
If you think this way about sugar then anytime you eat sugar those thoughts will impact how you digest that sugar. Do you have gas or bloating after having sugar? Do you have brain fog or trouble concentrating after having sugar?
Can you think positive thoughts about sugar and every time you eat it love sugar? Having those positive thoughts toward sugar will greatly impact your health when you have sugar. You will digest it better and feel better when you eat it.
If you are struggling with thinking that sugar is your enemy then join me for the 10 Day Sugar Detox. It will help you remove sugar but also remove your negative thoughts about sugar so you enjoy the times you eat sugar.
