Today I wish to explain a common mistake many people make daily. It seems like common sense when you hear about it, but boy, does this whole thing backfire on you. So, what is it?
Sugar Free foods are the easiest way to consistently lose weight!
Wrong!!
But how can that be? Take the sugar out, it reduces the calories so I'm not going to gain, or maybe I'll even lose some of this stubborn weight. The whole process sounds so simple.
The Troubling Paradox With Sugar Free Foods
There's several different scenarios going on here in this situation but the two most common are:
As for the chemical/artificial alternatives, they really have people confused. Zero calorie sodas or popsicles, low-calorie ice cream, candy, cookies and cakes. Sounds like a junk food addict's dream come true. Reduce all those calories to almost negligible amounts and then you get to eat all you want, right?
The answer to this puzzle is simple. Artificial and chemical sweeteners are just that - artificial!. Their original design has always been to "trick the mind" into believing you are eating something sweet. This in turn is supposed to satisfy your mind and body for its intensive need for sweets. Some people crave sweets like it is a "I've got to have it" feeling. Others, an occasional treat is all I am asking for.
But what these chemical concoctions do actually do is stimulate the brain into believing you are enjoying this current offering. Your body and mind want more. The pleasure center of your brain has been activated and demands more, usually within hours of ingestion. The problem escalates because your pleasure center never gets turned off. It always just keeps demanding more...and more.
Our body, thus the mind has triggers which flood our system with hormones to allow us to enjoy what we eat but when it has had enough, a trigger is pulled to turn this pleasure center off. Natural sugars and sweeteners allow this operation as a built-in mechanism of digestion.
Chemical sweeteners though do not switch off our pleasure center. With each bite, each drink, you are just telling the brain I want more. Your brain is never given the message you have had enough. Thus over-eating of food and drink becomes a normal routine because you are always being asked by your brain, "I need more".
Therefore, no matter how many artificially sweetened foods and drinks you consume, your mind is still always going to be begging for more within a few short hours anyway. This is the main reason most people who over-indulge say they can'r figure out why they are always hungry, always thirsty.
Yes, upfront, sugar free foods and bottles of drink seem like a packaged gift from the food Gods. But their effect on the human body, and good digestion is nothing but an eternal battle with foods upcoming in your near immediate future.
Next time: How can you stop/even prevent this battle being waged within your system.
Sugar Free foods are the easiest way to consistently lose weight!
Wrong!!
But how can that be? Take the sugar out, it reduces the calories so I'm not going to gain, or maybe I'll even lose some of this stubborn weight. The whole process sounds so simple.
The Troubling Paradox With Sugar Free Foods
There's several different scenarios going on here in this situation but the two most common are:
- remove the sugar but then some companies replace it with other types of natural sweeteners like honey, high fructose corn syrup or molasses etc.
- artificial or chemical sweeteners become the new sweetener of choice.
As for the chemical/artificial alternatives, they really have people confused. Zero calorie sodas or popsicles, low-calorie ice cream, candy, cookies and cakes. Sounds like a junk food addict's dream come true. Reduce all those calories to almost negligible amounts and then you get to eat all you want, right?
The answer to this puzzle is simple. Artificial and chemical sweeteners are just that - artificial!. Their original design has always been to "trick the mind" into believing you are eating something sweet. This in turn is supposed to satisfy your mind and body for its intensive need for sweets. Some people crave sweets like it is a "I've got to have it" feeling. Others, an occasional treat is all I am asking for.
But what these chemical concoctions do actually do is stimulate the brain into believing you are enjoying this current offering. Your body and mind want more. The pleasure center of your brain has been activated and demands more, usually within hours of ingestion. The problem escalates because your pleasure center never gets turned off. It always just keeps demanding more...and more.
Our body, thus the mind has triggers which flood our system with hormones to allow us to enjoy what we eat but when it has had enough, a trigger is pulled to turn this pleasure center off. Natural sugars and sweeteners allow this operation as a built-in mechanism of digestion.
Chemical sweeteners though do not switch off our pleasure center. With each bite, each drink, you are just telling the brain I want more. Your brain is never given the message you have had enough. Thus over-eating of food and drink becomes a normal routine because you are always being asked by your brain, "I need more".
Therefore, no matter how many artificially sweetened foods and drinks you consume, your mind is still always going to be begging for more within a few short hours anyway. This is the main reason most people who over-indulge say they can'r figure out why they are always hungry, always thirsty.
Yes, upfront, sugar free foods and bottles of drink seem like a packaged gift from the food Gods. But their effect on the human body, and good digestion is nothing but an eternal battle with foods upcoming in your near immediate future.
Next time: How can you stop/even prevent this battle being waged within your system.
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