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hi this is Anita from The Reluctant low
carb life today we're going to talk a
little bit about fasting or in
particular intermittent
fasting and whether or not it can help
you with your sugar addiction yeah the
answer to that is really yes I mean
anytime you can do anything to cut out
sugar from your diet will help you with
your sugar
addiction intermittent fasting certainly
can help you with your sugar
addiction it has been found to be one of
the most effective ways to help you
eliminate sugar Cravings while at the
same time being able to shed unwanted
pounds but like with anything else when
you do intermittent fasting if you you
know you know Gorge yourself during the
time when you're eating and you you know
eat a whole bunch of food it's not going
to help so in other words you still have
to have controlled eating there's many
different types of ways to fast but
we're going to talk about some of those
um some of the different ways one of
them is called the 168 which means that
you basically fast for 16 hours a day
you don't eat anything and then for
eight hours you eat so in other words
You' eat about like maybe a lunch and
dinner and then you would uh fast for
the rest of the time the other way that
some people recommend is 52 which means
that you eat regularly for 5 days then
for 2 days you eat maybe 500 calorie
meals so you're eating very light on two
days and the rest of the days you're
eating pretty much normal yeah these are
the basically the two fasting U methods
that most people use but still again the
trick with this if you're looking at
this for your sugar addiction is to
really not be eating sugar during the
time when you're eating and the reason
is is because it can take anywhere from
8 to 12 hours to burn sugar stored in
your body most people never deplete the
sugar sugar that's in their bodies you
know during a typical day of eating so
that's one reason why fasting is so good
that fasting helps you to be able to
deplete those sugars out of your body
what's really interesting about fasting
is that fasting is really not something
new um many religions have times where
they fast it's it's been something which
has been done for for centuries many
many churches have fasting uh you know
so fasting is really not a new phenomena
for health and F fting is considered to
be healthy for your health that
basically you know you spend some time
you you cut the food out of your body
and it helps to sort of like cleanse
your body and to clean your body so it
only makes sense that if you're looking
to get rid of a sugar addiction that one
way you can really do this is through
your intermittent fasting that you can
basically stop eating sugar and and
start fasting During certain times of
the day and then it will help you to be
able to get the the sugar that's stored
in your body to get it out of your body
and as the sugar gets out of your body
it should be able to help your Cravings
I want to say something here because a
lot of times people think well there's
got to be like a cure all for my sugar
addiction and there's really not like if
you're addicted to Sugar like I know I'm
addicted to Sugar you're going to deal
with that for the rest of your life just
like an alcoholic might deal with
addiction to alcohol you need to learn
to find a way to be able to control that
sugar addiction so that you can be able
to go without sugar that's really
becomes the main part and the focus of
this of getting the sugar addiction out
we as Americans and in the western world
eat way too much sugar we tend to you
know have like five times or six times
more sugar than what our bodies need
that's because there's so much sugar in
our Foods today that's also why we
Advocate on the keto and low carb
lifestyle that you also not only do
things like cut sugar out of your diet
but and you also if you want to have
sugar go to Natural types of sugar like
monk fruit sugar is one of our favorites
and you can still get the sweetness of
the taste and get you know be able to
still have some of your you know your
favorite treats without the sugar in it
but also at the same time that you also
you know eat whole and healthy foods if
you eat protein and eat healthy foods
then you won't be craving sugar as much
as you normally do if you'd like to read
more about our blog we'll put a
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it we appreciate you being part of our
community we know that we are going now
into the holiday season and you know
this is where sugars it's hard to get
rid of sugar Sugar's everywhere so that
we hope that you will try to get sugar
out of your diet as much as possible
thank you so much for listening and we
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