BENEFITS OF CUTTING OUT SUGAR
If you’re a sugar lover, you can probably empathize. Sugar
is addictive — it turns on reward pathways in your brain and causes withdrawal.
Without the right game plan, it’s hard to break a sugar addiction. But when you
do kick your sugar habit, the changes to your life can be extraordinary.
Cutting down on sugar promotes:
Fat loss
Mental focus and better mood, thanks to decreased brain
inflammation
Decreased hunger and food cravings
All-day energy with no crash, thanks to stable blood sugar
It takes about two weeks for your body to get over sugar
cravings and withdrawal. With that in mind, here’s a 30-day no sugar challenge.
Over the course of the next month, use this step-by-step guide to break your
sugar addiction and start feeding your body foods that make you stronger, not
weaker. Everything you need to know is in this article.
You’ll be amazed by how good you feel after you get off
sugar. Here’s how to do it.
DAYS 1-7: DITCH THE SUGAR AND EAT MORE FAT
First things first, scour your kitchen for sugary or
high-carb foods and get rid of them. When sugar cravings hit, they hit hard.
You don’t want to be surrounded by sweets and cave in a moment of temptation.
Go to your kitchen and look at the nutrition labels on
everything. If the food has more than a couple grams of sugar (or if it’s high
in carbs, like pasta or potato chips), throw it out.
This applies to natural sugar, too. Sugar is sugar, whether it
comes from a candy bar or from a cantaloupe. “Healthy” sweeteners like dates,
honey, coconut sugar, maple syrup, and agave nectar are no better than table
sugar; they’ll still spike your insulin levels and cause cravings.
DAYS 8-14: HACK YOUR SUGAR CRAVINGS
Sugar is addictive. It lights up the reward pathways in your
brain and causes withdrawal symptoms when you stop eating it.[6] After a couple
days without sugar, the cravings are going to hit. You might experience:
Low energy
Mood swings
Strong desire for carbs/sweets
Headaches
Trouble sleeping
Brain fog
This is your body going through sugar withdrawal. Stay
strong! The withdrawal will pass after a few days and you’ll feel better than
ever before. In the meantime, here are three ways to hack your sugar cravings:
Eat lots of fat (and don’t count calories). Start your day
with a Bulletproof Coffee and have lots of fatty meat and butter-drenched
vegetables for lunch and dinner. Don’t count calories while you’re getting off
sugar; fill up on fat and eat until you’re full. The combination of fat,
protein, and fiber will curb your appetite and ease cravings.
Put Brain Octane Oil on everything. Brain Octane Oil is a
special type of fat that your liver converts to energy almost immediately.
Brain Octane suppresses your hunger hormones and helps a lot with cravings and
low energy. Drizzle it on your meals to help you get through sugar withdrawal.
Keep good snacks handy. When you’re going through sugar
cravings and withdrawal, make sure you have lots of high-fat, low-carb snacks
that you can eat without prep. Choose things like clean meat sticks/bars,
grass-fed hot dogs and sausages, grass-fed cheese (if you tolerate it), raw
nuts, nut butters, and dark chocolate (78% or darker). The moment a carb craving
hits, grab a high-fat snack.. This strategy makes a bigger difference than you
might think.
DAYS 15-30: ENJOY YOUR NEW BODY AND BRAIN
By day 15, your sugar withdrawal will probably have come and
gone. You can expect sugar and carb cravings to disappear almost entirely. You
won’t have to battle to not eat that cookie at the end of the day — the desire
just won’t be there.
For the second half of the month, expect to feel better and
better. You’ll enjoy extraordinary mental clarity, stable energy, fat loss,
decreased inflammation, better sleep, and more. Now is a good time to
experiment with your diet and find what works best for your unique biology.
Try adding intermittent fasting for even more mental focus
and fat loss
Add or remove foods from the yellow zone of the Bulletproof
Diet Roadmap and see if you feel good eating them
Consider going full keto, or adding a weekly carb refeed day
Fine-tune your nutrition with the right supplements
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