HEALING SUGAR ADDICTION: TIP #8

As we continue to raise our awareness around sugar addiction and how our habits and behaviours play into it, it's important to look at the way stress affects our cravings. When we have high levels of the stress hormone cortisol floating in our blood, it can have an effect on our hunger hormones--ghrelin and leptin. In order to manage these hormones better, we need to look at Tip #8: MANAGE STRESS.

Stress is often at the root of our addictions. We soothe our emotions using things outside ourselves (in our case, junk food like chips and soda, sugary foods like candy and cookies and refined carbohydrates like pastries, pizza and pasta), rather than using what's available inside of us.

When we meditate, practice deep breathing (longer on the exhale than the inhale), journal, pray, practice gratitude, or sit in nature, we activate our parasympathetic nervous system (our "rest and digest" system) rather than operating solely out of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). In this way, we can calm ourselves down and lower the stress that can trigger the behaviours we are trying to curb.

And in this way, we can begin to truly heal.

I hope you use some of these tips to lower your stress and manage your cravings. I'd love to know what works for you!

xoS

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