What Can Sugar Recovery Do for You? by Joan Kent, PhD

 

In my previous post on sugar, I listed ways to know if you’re addicted to it. In this post, I’d like to focus on Recovery from sugar and how it can benefit you.

 

Sugar – actually, the high insulin it triggers – promotes inflammation & disease:  diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cholesterol, obesity, cancers and more. Quitting sugar can reverse many, if not most, of those. Really.

 

Sugar can cause mood swings, anxiety, depression, irritability. Quitting can help reverse mood issues and keep you feeling great.

 

Sugar messes with your energy. It can make you lethargic and sleepy all day. Quitting can restore your energy levels.

 

Sugar makes you eat more. Quitting sugar can help you regain control of your appetite.

 

Sugar makes you want junky food. It changes food preferences so you want sugary and/or high-fat foods. Quitting can make healthful food seem appetizing again.

 

What Else Can Recovery from Sugar Do?

 

If you’ve recently quit alcohol, sugar can make you crave alcohol and even lead to relapse. Quitting can help prevent that and keep you feeling much better during your (ongoing and hopefully permanent) recovery.

 

Quitting can make you a better role model for your kids.

• Showing them how you handled a big problem.
• Showing them that you do what you say.
• Reversing the health problems above so you’ll be around for their key life events.
• Behaving differently so you treat them the way they deserve.
• Becoming more ‘even’ and less reactive so you handle other things better, as well.

 

In these ways and others, quitting sugar can be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your health, your attitude, your appetite, your behavior, your recovery, your kids.

 

If you’d like help quitting sugar so you feel better fast, perfect! That’s what I do. Just visit www.LastResortNutrition.com and grab your free Empowered Eating Consult. Discover how easy it can be to give yourself the freedom you’d love. You got this!

 

Brought to you by Dr. Joan Kent, best-selling author of Stronger Than Sugar:  7 Simple Steps to Defeat Sugar Addiction, Lift Your Mood, and Transform Your Health.