If it tastes sweet, spit it out. If you don’t stop habitually eating sweets, your body will endlessly crave sugar. Sugar is so detrimental to fat loss that healthy eating and exercise rarely have any effect on obesity among those who consume it via soda, diet soda, fruit juice, candy, chocolate, cereal, health food bars, sugar-fortified protein shakes, energy bars, sport gels and ice cream. When consumed, sugar elicits a corresponding over production and release of the fat storing hormone insulin (as taught previously in "The Science of What Makes Us Fat")
Children are not immune to this metabolic turmoil. The highly respected medical journal Lancet reported that children who consume even a single sugary soda per day are 60% more likely to become obese.1
Artificial sweeteners are not an option for users of The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery. Artificial sweeteners, like sugar, disrupt satiety, the feeling of being full. When consumed, your body loses its natural ability to count calories. Therefore, artificial sweeteners cause us to overeat without conscious awareness.2 This is an important point to internalize! If you cannot distinguish between proper eating and over eating caused by artificial flavors then you will NEVER reach your fat loss goals, period. Artificial flavors include sucralose (Splenda), aspartame, acesulfame K, saccharin and neotame.
Makers of health food bars and protein supplements have not been made aware of the ill effects of sugar or artificial sweeteners — or they are ignoring it. Most every health food bar and protein supplement available is loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners. The belief that these bars and supplements are healthy for you is a perfect example of how marketing strategies supersede medical science and common sense.
This brings us to the inevitable topic of quitting sugar. Quitting sugar will be the least popular habit among sugar addicts. Not only does sugar taste good but it is also physically addicting. The sugar addiction is set into motion by an increase in the “feel-good” molecules known as endorphins and a subsequent lack in their precursor serotonin. Similar to heroin addiction, once a sugar high dissipates serotonin is depleted. Without serotonin, a person will feel “down and out” because they are unable to produce endorphins. To remedy this, a sugar addict reaches for more sugar — a heroin addict more heroin. Drug chemists understand this phenomenon of sugar and heroin. Heroin is often laced with sugar.
The sugar addiction explains “emotional eating.” Without sugar, regular users are irritable, hungry and lack focus. Their “quick fix” is sugar or some carbohydrate rich food like bagels or pretzels.
Women are more receptive to the sugar addiction than men. This explains the love for chocolate during times of stress or sadness. This is not to say that it doesn’t happen to men.
A sweet tip for quitting sugar is to use the essential amino acid L-tryptophan and natural alternatives to sugar such as stevia extract. The amino acid L-tryptophan is the precursor to serotonin (melatonin too). It is termed essential because you need it for proper development yet your body cannot make it. Therefore you must obtain it from your diet. Without L-tryptophan, your body is unable to “feel good” and people feel “blue.” The typical reaction is to reach for “artificial feel good” known as sugar or take antidepressants. There is a safer “quick-fix.”
To ward off sugar cravings and depression, ensure that you have ample amounts of serotonin by supplementing with L-tryptophan. This effect has been well established in scientific studies. Those who supplement with 50 mg/kg of L-tryptophan daily naturally lower their intake of sugar and carbohydrates — without conscious control! Further, by increasing the amount of serotonin in the brain, users of L-tryptophan wake up feeling great without the encumbrance of depression. And it’s safe! Because L-tryptophan is required for proper development it is often added to baby food. You can purchase the best pharmaceutical grade L-tryptophan available on the market at info@forgetperfectnow.com.
Stevia (by NuNaturals) is the only sweetener or sugar replacement allowed on The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery. Stevia extract has been used for over 20 years in Japan and Brazil. It tastes like sugar without eliciting an addiction. It poses huge competition to corporations who promote man-made artificial sweeteners like sucralose (Splenda). As a result, the corporate lap-dog known officially as the FDA has attempted to suppress Stevia's safety and efficacy as a sugar replacement. Don't be fooled.
In addition to tasting great, animal and human studies show that stevia extract can help lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure, prevent as well as reverse insulin resistance and clear glucose from the blood stream by up to 30%. Remember, the best tasting stevia is made by NuNaturals. Look for their stevia extract, not powder. (http://www.nunaturals.com/products/stevia.html) or contact info@forgetperfectnow.com.
Taking Your Next Steps
This is one of 10 key nutrition and lifestyle habits that govern The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery. It is being presented here to allow you time to learn about and incorporate new habits at a pace that works for you.
The Discovery Plan is not a rigid plan. Intentionally limited to 10 principles, the premise is SIMPLICITY and EFFECTIVENESS. The pursuit of optimal health should enrich your life ... not detract from it.
Slip-ups are O.K. What matters most is that if you do slip-up you don’t stay down. Instead, get up and continue with the habits of The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery. Adhering to good habits confers good health and fat loss — even if you do slip up every now and then.
Be warned, only applying one habit without the others will not get you where you want to go. There is no single habit that reverses obesity and all the medical complications that go with it. All 10 habits of The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery must be employed for guaranteed success.
Take your journey one step at a time, remembering that one step should follow another. If you would like to move at a faster pace or in a more complete way, you can purchase the items below at info@forgetperfectnow.com.
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