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Why You Feel Addicted to Sugar (And What’s Really Causing the Cravings)

If you feel like a total addict around sugar - sneaking biscuits when no one’s looking, hiding wrappers from your partner, or driving to the corner shop at 10:00 PM to get your fix - this is for you. In this post, I’m breaking down why sugar feels so out of control, what’s actually driving those intense cravings, and how to turn down the volume on them without cutting out a single food group.

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Ditching Sugar Won’t Stop Your Binges. But This Will.

For years, I was convinced I had a sugar addiction. It felt like sugar had this power over me. Like I was totally addicted. But here’s what I know now, both from my own journey and through years of helping others heal their relationship with food: Sugar isn’t the problem. Restriction is.

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4 Surprising Things I Learnt from Eating a Handful of Sweets

For five years, sweets never passed my lips. I avoided all processed sugar for the sake of my health and was determined to never ever eat sugar. I’d bought into the whole “sugar is poison” concept but never took the time to look beneath the alarming headlines about how sugar is slowly killing us all.

(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)

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The surprising reason for your sugar addiction

Do you feel like you’re addicted to sugar? It’s like you’ve got persistent sugar cravings and each time you start a box of chocolate you Just. Can’t. Stop. Maybe the cravings got so bad that one day you decided to banish all sugary foods from your house, or tried one of those “30 days to kick the sugar habit” diets.

(Guest Post on Complete Wellbeing)

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