#sugar detox

[healthyorganicessentials]

Sugar Detox Challenge: Ditch the Cravings & Boost Your Energy Levels

Sugar – it's sweet, satisfying, and oh-so-addictive. But excessive sugar consumption can wreak havoc on your health, leading to energy crashes, weight gain, and increased risk of chronic diseases. If you're ready to break free from the sugar trap, join us on a Sugar Detox Challenge. In this blog post, we'll explore the importance of reducing sugar intake, signs of sugar addiction, and provide actionable tips to help you conquer those cravings and boost your energy levels.

Understanding the Impact of Sugar:

While sugar provides a quick energy boost, the subsequent crash can leave you feeling tired and irritable. Over time, excessive sugar intake has been linked to weight gain, insulin resistance, inflammation, and an increased risk of conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Taking control of your sugar consumption is a powerful step towards better health.

Signs of Sugar Addiction:

Intense Cravings: Regular, intense cravings for sugary foods and drinks may indicate a dependency on sugar.

Energy Slumps: If you experience energy crashes or fatigue shortly after consuming sugary items, it could be a sign of sugar addiction.

Mood Swings: Sugar highs and lows can contribute to mood swings and irritability.

Weight Gain: Excessive sugar intake is closely linked to weight gain, particularly around the abdominal area.

Difficulty Cutting Back: If you find it challenging to reduce your sugar intake despite knowing the potential health risks, it may be a sign of addiction.

Tips for a Successful Sugar Detox:

Gradual Reduction: Rather than going cold turkey, gradually reduce your sugar intake to make the process more sustainable.

Read Labels: Be vigilant about reading food labels, as sugar hides under various names. Choose whole, unprocessed foods whenever possible.

Healthy Substitutes: Replace sugary snacks with healthier alternatives like fresh fruits, nuts, or Greek yogurt.

Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and help curb cravings.

Explore healthyorganicessentials.com/gluco-control-achieving-optimal-blood-sugar-balance/ This link provides additional insights on achieving optimal blood sugar balance. It may offer valuable information to complement your sugar detox journey.

Embarking on a sugar detox challenge is a proactive step towards reclaiming your health and boosting your energy levels. By understanding the impact of sugar, recognizing signs of addiction, and implementing practical tips for reducing sugar intake, you can break free from the cycle of cravings and experience a renewed sense of vitality. Start your sugar detox today and embrace a healthier, more energized version of yourself!

#sugar detox #sugar #detox #detoxification #health #healthy lifestyle

[bodyconfidence-warrior]

Currently in the middle of a sugar and nosespray rehab and everyone and everything annoys me.

I would have never expect these withdrawal symptoms to be this extreme!!

#sugar rehab #sugar detox #nosespray rehab

[keriberijuice]

Immediately going on a sugar detox. Tbh a full on detox bc my body needs it.

Thought I would indulge my id with all my sugar cravings, and immediately felt sick.

Idk why tf I did it in the first place 😅 but I never want to look at a cake, or taste anything sweet until 2024 🥲

The full body detox is because I really wanna go back vegan. I did 2 years ago but I felt limited in ingredients and recipes.

But ya girl been learning, thank you very much. Upping my vegan game. I’m truly obsessed with vegan Ethiopian food, I like it better than regular Ethiopian, so definitely taking those notes and reapplying it. Starting off with doing vegan dinners.

Anyways, pics of some Ethiopian food I’ve had. My fav thing to get is Gomen (collard greens) , Tikel gomen (carrots, cabbage, potatoes) so fucking good, and Misir Wat (spicy red lentil stew 🤤)

#I will master the spicy red lentils #randotron #vent post #vegan #ethiopian food #yummy af #I hate sugar #it hurts my body #health & fitness #sugar detox

[revolttoevolve]

And so it began.....

It was 28th December 2018 and I was coming down from of a three-day drinking bender. Depressed out of my arse that even taking Flash (my beloved Border Collie who passed away Sep 2020) out for his walk wasn't so much a struggle as it was a full-on war with anxiety. 

This particular low point in my life wasn’t without reason. My boyfriend and I had broken off our 2-and-a-half-year relationship and I’d recently cut ties with my Dad (for reasons that I will go into later), both things were raw and so emotionally overwhelming that the only thing I seemed capable of, was crying and getting drunk. To be honest, though, it didn't matter why I was stuck in my box of anxiety this time, the destination never changed. I am alone in the dark cradling my dog and a bottle of wine. 

As my hazy brain was coming out of the massive boozy insult, my thoughts didn’t go to the usual place. Normally, at this stage, I would start daydreaming about a future Lou, a happy Lou that is not slowly becoming the size of a walrus and pickling her liver at an alarming rate.

This time, my thought process went straight for the jugular. No matter how hard I tried to daydream about a better version of myself, I'm stuck with this one. And I've been stuck with this version of me since my late teens and at the rate that things are going I will hit my 40th and I'll still be sitting in the dark hugging my dog and a bottle of wine feeling lonelier than ever. I couldn't bear the thought, it made my head spin more than any bottle ever could. 

Then it hit me. One of my favourite quotes that I had smugly dished out so often, smacked me in the face like a cold wet kipper. 

'The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.' Good old Einstein. 

Why in the world did I expect my life to change if I didn't change anything in my life? It was madness. But what? What could I do differently?

Of course, I already knew the answer to that, I had always known the answer to that. I need to sort my drinking out. In every fantasy of my future, all the Lou's every single one of them didn't drink or at least didn't need a drink and none of them was lonely. 

Terrifying. Not the concept of giving up booze, that I was ready for and I can’t explain how I knew I was, but this time and for the first time I just was. Telling people, that was the scary part. I didn't want the attention on it, I just wanted to get my head down and get on with it. I didn’t know how bad it was. If it was a serious drink problem, I wanted to get my head around knowing I needed help before I was ready to ask for it. 

So, I started racking my brain – what could I do as subterfuge? I looked at my books for inspiration. My go-to.... if in doubt stare at books. And they didn’t fail me, I have three books on marathon training. I got them back in 2011, in preparation for running my first one. I pulled out all three books and for some reason felt the need to hug them, which made Flash jealous and shouty (he hated not being involved in every cuddle situation.) then decided it was time to run my third Brighton Marathon, 7 years after my last one and 8 years after my first.

I would run in 2020 which gave me 1 year and 4 months to train for it. So I could now attribute whatever change I made to my diet to training. Boom!

Next. Food 

Like everything else in my life, my diet was in conflict. On the one hand, I was healthy and loved to cook. The recipe books were always out even though I never really followed them and just liked looking at the pictures. On the other hand, the deeper I was inside my box of anxiety the less I cared about food and the more I cared about wine. Then it would be late-night takeaways, which were finished for breakfast and a meal deal for lunch, along with sweets (usually to combat the shakes), and the recipe books gathering dust. 

The sugar detox had been on my radar ever since a couple of former colleagues had done the detox for 30 days. I was astonished at the difference no sugar made they were more alert, full of energy and just looked super healthy. I had never considered for a second giving it a go myself, largely because of course that would mean no booze and I hadn't been ready for that. But now the sugar detox was perfect for that very reason. NO BOOZE! 

Goals are set, and so to the research...

#sobriety #weight loss #running #marathon #trauma #childhood #sugar detox #workout

[basically-queenberyl]

Since I last posted, I broke my sugar detox, but I’m still meal prepping. Lentils and white rice.

#personal #tw ed not sheeran #foodz #0rtho #sugar detox

[planet-fitness1]

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#healthcare #weight goals #nourishing #rewire brain #sugar detox

[newmusicbreakthru]

How & Why You Need To Sugar Detox...

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While some people jokingly refer to themselves as sugar addicts, the truth is no laughing matter. Refined sugar causes real, clinically verifiable addictive patterns in your brain and ruinous effects on your body. The average American consumes between 22 and 30 teaspoons of added sugar every day. That’s sugar that you could easily cut from your diet entirely by making intelligent dietary…

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[perfectlyspookypainter]

#sugar beet #sugar detox #i sell photos #buy my costom content

[toshfeed]

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  Summer is almost here, and many individuals are planning beach vacations, regardless of whether restricted to backyard pools as the world health situation is still somewhat unclear. The train of thought then leads to a beach-body-ready shape, meaning you need a boost to lose weight, firm up, get more energy, and feel better within and about yourself. You know what’s sabotaging your weight…

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#exercises #fitness #health #how to lose weight #Sugar Detox #Workout

[powergummies12]

#sugar addiction #sugar cravings #powergummies #sugar detox #the beach body #weight loss gummies #weight management #weight loss

[eatclean-bewhole]

This is one of my favorite go-to smoothie detoxes. Save this for when you need a rebalance after indulging (hello holidays!) or returning from a vacation, reset gut health, and/or break sugar & caffeine addictions. Don’t forget to drink lots of water and green tea in between, and make sure you do this on low key days where you’re not expending a lot of energy. 💚

#detox #detoxify #detoxing #smoothies #drinks #green smoothie #sugar addiction #caffeine addiction #guthealth

[nu-metal-confessions]

I’m a totally innocent way I wanna shower with head or jd. Like having one of them wash ur hair mmdjbdfkxsfuk

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#I feel you anon #I wanna clean and redo Head's braids and detox JD's nasty-ass dreads #and give JD's legs a sugar scrub so they're nice and smooth and Head an oil massage on his neck and back for all the headbanging he does #jonathan davis #brian welch #brian head welch #korn #nu metal #nu metal confessions

[oak23]

One of my friends asked me about how to lose weight since I lost about 20 pounds over this past year without calorie counting and I just told him some of the basic stuff I had to keep an eye on in terms of my food but I could sense he didn't wanna do any of that since we both are comfort eaters.

And I didn't want to push it since I know there's a ton of hidden factors around food that you gotta do some untangling. But it was interesting since the volume of food I consume hasn't really changed, I've just tried to focus on eating a lot more protein and vegetables and reduce the amount of carbs I have so the proportions are a bit more even, while also drinking more water.

Like, the change from counting calories to making sure I consume actual nutrients is the core of my eating habits nowadays.

#also turns out I really really really craved sugar and I had to actively detox ftom it lmao

[revolttoevolve]

Bellie's gonna get ya

I woke up on Day 1 feeling like absolute crap!

I hadn’t had a drink in over 24 hours, I hadn’t stuffed my face with sweets and carbs in a vein attempt to mop up the wine in my tummy either. So, I was feeling it, big time. But I felt different. I didn’t want to hide behind another bottle and a takeaway, I suddenly felt for the first time strong enough to stop running from my past and from the person I was becoming, and that feeling had completely overridden the need to hide.

I had had a long-term relationship, my first serious relationship. From the ages of 20 to 29. So quite literally all of my 20’s. We lived up the road from his family and 250 miles away from mine.

This might seem like a strange thing to say but it was my depression and anxiety that had kept us together for so long. You see he was quite controlling he would sometimes gaslight me and he was selfish. My thoughts and opinions didn’t count. Nothing I did was note-worthy, unless he had achieved something greater. The day I ran my first ever marathon, there was no congratulations he just talked about the fact that he was going to do a challenge far superior to a marathon. This behaviour on his part largely went unchecked because I was too distracted with my mental health to recognise it and my family, we’re too far away to see what was going on.

Things changed when I got therapy. For the first time in years I had been able to see light at the end of the tunnel, and that light was bathing the reality of the situation in those harsh fluorescent strips. I started to essentially confront his behaviour head on. Simple things really. Why is it that I have altered some of my habits because I know they annoy him, and he hasn’t done a damn thing to alter any of his? Why am I not in control of my own wages? The list of questions went on. He hated it, and I wondered if anyone had ever questioned his behaviour before.

We had split up 7 years ago, I had of course dealt with the break and reflected on where and why it all went so very wrong and comes to terms with it. Made my peace with it.

What was new today was the connection I made between him and my dad. My opinion didn’t matter as much as his. My choices in life weren’t as good as his. And no matter how hard I tried I would never ever be good enough. Judging me for the person he thought I ought to be and not accepting me for who I am.

As soon as I realised this I cried. So, Flash come over insisting that stroking him would help. It did. Thing is, it wasn’t tears of sadness. It was tears of relief. Tears of understanding. This is where I had been going wrong.

My relationship with men in general had been moulded by my dad’s example and I always ended up unhappy and frustrated because I was at odds with myself. Half believing that I ought to be grateful for every shred of affection I get no matter how much its wrapped in an insult, and half believing I deserve to be treated so much better than that – but now realising that this is my fault.

I was choosing this again and again and again. Thereby allowing this behaviour to be acceptable and then of course getting treated like crap by people who didn’t even deserve my smile much less anything else.

And so, I sat there, with a pounding head, feeling very sick and crying but I somehow also felt better than I had done in years.

I opened my diary, page 1 and began to write.

‘’Day 1 (29.12.18)

After a booze fuelled 2 days and after finally accepting that if I don’t change, it will kill me. I’m done.

So, sugar detox.30 days (to begin with).

I’m not going to say I will never drink again, but I am going to go cold turkey for the time being.

From this I will also start running again. I am going to run the Brighton Marathon, 2020. 8 years after my first and this time I’m aiming for sub 4 hours.

Why all of this? – because I can’t carry on like this, I’m not dealing with my anger in a healthy way. I want to be physically and mentally healthier. I’ve got 3 ½ years until my 40th. By then I want to be happier, healthier and debt free. I want to have hobbies; I don’t want to let this consume me any longer.

So, here is my mission statement – I will not drink for 90 days, 90 days sober – start from there. I will not eat refined carbs or sugars for at least 30 days, and I will start running again.

I will get some scales.

I must focus on me. This must be it.

I know I will struggle at times.

I know I am stuck in a cycle, my relationship with alcohol has become supremely complicated. I must free myself from this.”

Withdrawal Symptoms

Dull Headache

Nausea

Anxiety

Sweaty

Shudders (at night)

Hallucinations (at night)

“Day 2 (30.12.81)

I had a weird night sleep. Took me ages to drop off, and when I did my head sort of shuddered and I kept twitching. I feel a bit odd this morning. I’m sweating but I’m cold.

I took Flash out for a walk, saw loads of runners, I really wanted to go myself – but I literally need to walk before I can run. I want to settle into this new healthy food thing before I started my running plan. I’m about to have my first decent breakfast since staying at Jenna’s 6 weeks ago.

Withdrawal Symptoms

Dull Headache

Nausea

Anxiety

Sweaty

Shudders (at night)

Hallucinations (at night)

“Day 3 (31.12.18)

I’m itchy today. I think partly because it’s now been 3 days since I last had a drink or had any bread or any sugar, but also because it’s New Years Eve. A classic night for everyone to drink too much. I had been invited out by a couple of different people, but I think I’m just going to stay in. Make a nice meal, stick the TV on watch a movie and go to bed. For tomorrow I will go for my first run in months.”

Withdrawal Symptoms

Dull Headache

Nausea

Anxiety

Sweaty

Dizziness

Fatigue

Shudders (at night)

Hallucinations (at night)

“Day 4 (01.01.19)

2.47-mile run, my pace. 12-minute miles. It was tough. Probably a combination of having not run since October and not being on the detox.

First day of the year and I found an empty wine bottle under the sofa when I was hoovering. I felt disgusted by it. How had I let things get that bad?

The house behind me had had a party last night, I hadn’t heard any of it until I had gone to bed, since my bedroom is at the back of the flat. It was quite entertaining. To begin with I could make out the conversations and they we’re all quite civilised and jovial then, weirdly like a switch had flipped or something they we’re all just suddenly smashed, and I couldn’t understand a single word. It got me thinking about how many times I had tried to hold conversations after having had too much wine and basically how much of a dick I must have sounded, quite a lot of the time.

Today I’m quite itchy. I think it’s more the habit of it than anything else. But remembering my disgust at the wine bottle under the sofa and how much that party had changed through too much booze has really helped my resolve.”

Withdrawal Symptoms

Dull Headache

Nausea

Anxiety

Sweaty

Dizziness

Tingling

Shudders (at night)

Hallucinations (at night)

Run – 2.47 miles. 12-minute mile pace.

Perspective is powerful. Within 4 days of the detox I was simultaneously suffering with 8 different symptoms of withdrawal and I just thought blimey booze and sugar are very obviously bad for you, otherwise your body wouldn’t react so terribly to it being cut out. I mean let’s face it, if you we’re to cut out apples for a week – it’s not going to make you anxious. It might make you think about apple pie a bit more. But you won’t get sweaty or shaky through lack of apples. If I was on the other side of the perspective, I’d be thinking this is terrible, I shouldn’t put my body through this, where’s my purse I’m going to by a beer and a doughnut.

I got through the first 4 days by focusing on my thoughts and my feelings. Not having the distraction of booze was really helping me face my past and deal with it in a healthier way than finding solace at the bottom of a bottle (which never ever ever happened anyway)

Day 5 was my first day back at work after the Christmas break, it was also the day I decided to tell everyone what I was doing. A brilliant motivational tactic by the way. In a dark moment of weakness when your itching for a Snickers or a bottle, realising that if you eat it/drink it and someone asks you how the detox is going – you either have to lie to them about the fact that you failed or you have to be honest and tell them you failed. Either way – it doesn’t feel great.

Next stop …. Withdrawal central….

#sugar detox #sugar #diet and nutrition #diet and health #weight loss #body positive #bodytransformation

[basically-queenberyl]

Sugar Detox Day 8:

I feel my stomach shrinking. Mostly I just want to stop bringing on sugar. I’m having very small amounts of it, so it’s not a complete detox. I’m trying to shake my extreme cravings.

#sugar detox #sugar cravings #tw diet #tw restriction #tw ed not sheeran

[darsynia]

Hi!!! @venusfalling here! I’d love to hear your director’s commentary on chapter 1 of Shipping and Handling because I cannot get over how affected Steve is by the reader and Bucky’s reactions to Steve being so horny 💛 I know Bucky and Steve have had some tense moments about the reader, so I’d love to hear more about them if you’d like to share!!

Ooh, thank you so much! ack I have typed so much and then removed it feeling like it was irrelevant, haha, I'm all over the place.

In terms of Bucky's reaction, he's definitely protective of Dee, and there's an aspect where he trusts Steve, but if it had been anyone else, Bucky would have been on the warpath. So he's conflicted in that way, but he's also finding that his heavily quarantined friendship with her is breached by developing feelings. For now, they're subtext, very 'oh this thing I said I didn't want to have happen, now it might be impossible (because I can't move in on Steve's girl), but that makes me see it as a possibility' if that makes sense?

At the same time, it's easier for Bucky to think he has a chance than Steve (as crazy as that sounds), because Dee's connection to Steve wasn't on purpose. So there's a push-pull of being grateful that he can trust Steve not to manipulate her, but also of being jealous maybe even deeply frustrated that they're creating a faux bond when he'd want a genuine one.

So on the surface Bucky's trying to be a good friend, someone Dee and Steve can count on, and underneath, he's the man who would punch Steve for even implying that he's jealous... because he IS. And it scares the hell out of him. The part of it where he might not be sure which of them he's jealous of? 🤌

I want to hold off on his PoV for a while so we can observe what's happening to him through subtle cues through all the intensity that's going on otherwise, but he's very much still a very important person in the story, for sure.

#i hope that's coherent! #i'm sugar detoxing and it's making me very uncertain which i usually am not #darsy twirls her asks #venusfalling #series: safe in my (our) arms