May as Well Face it You’re Addicted to Sugar
Full of sugar as well as salt!
Even if you don’t take sugar in your coffee or tea the food industry is still ensuring you probably get way too much sugar for what you need.
Even though the focus of my hypnosis weight loss sessions is about invoking change of a client’s relationship with food it’s impossible to also ignore the need for eating healthy foods.
After all, what good is reducing the emotional eating of snacks and meal size portions if when you eat; you consume a lot of the wrong stuff.
If you’re like me and make every effort to eat healthy and yet the pounds “are not melting away” like the marketing hype promises then despite your diet you may still be the victim of sugar.
For the longest time the food industry has been bombarding us with “sugar-free” this and “diet” version of that to trick us into believing we’re not consuming sugar but eating healthy drinks and foods. But we are not.
The favorite replacement for sugar in food and drink to give it a palatable taste to our buds has been High Fructose Corn Syrup – HFCS. This is a manufactured sugar – not natural at all. If you or your kids eat snacks there’s a good chance whatever you’re eating has HFCS as one of its ingredients.
If you do nothing else after reading this post reduce your intake of High Fructose Corn Syrup – like today. It’s also used heavily in processed can foods as well. Read label on cans and boxes and say no to HFCS. It’s bad for your health as well as for your calorie intake.
Now for a dose of reality.
It’ll be difficult to get HFCS out of your life overnight – just because you’ve become addicted, and probably your family, to foods that include it as an ingredient and the convenience of processed foods. For example if you decide to cook chili with kidney beans then you’ll find it a time-consuming task to find the source bean without additives and cook them to get ready for adding into the chili. A few hours of extra steps in an already hectic day is for most of us out of our reach.
So look at getting off High Fructose Corn Syrup as a weaning exercise that’ll take awhile rather than cutting it out abruptly – unless you can.
Get into the habit of knowing what you’re eating and keeping a tally of everything you consume that has sugar added as HFCS. Keep score if you want. At the end of a week you’ll be alarmed at just how much of you diet includes HFCS.
Exercise can help get these sugar additives out of the system as you wean yourself off HFCS by reducing intake. My favorite short exercise program remains Dr. Al Sears PACE 12 Minute Fitness Revolution program because it supports your weight loss goals along with a diet plan and hypnosis to help change habits.
In my next post I’ll be discussing another addiction you need to reduce as the food industry laughs itself all the way to the bank as it feeds into the nation’s obesity level.
Erika Slater, CH
Free At Last Hypnosis
5 Goss Pond Road,
Upton, MA 01568
508-529-2490
erika@smoke-free-at-last.com
http://www.smoke-free-at-last.com
P.S. If you get a chance to watch the film documentary called Food, Inc then please do. You’ll come away with a new found disgust for the food industry and your favorite local restaurants.
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