Weight loss, energy gain, or more beautiful skin? According to nutritionists and women's magazines, stopping sugar (or at least moderating its consumption) would only have positive effects on our health. The problem is that sugar is insidiously nestled everywhere, in the prepared dishes as in bread slices that are swallowed at breakfast. Then, how to monitor and moderate sugar consumption? And above all, how to avoid depressing by suddenly stopping nibbling comforting sweets? In fact, stopping eating too much sugar is much easier than you think. The proof by seven tips below!
1. Read (and decipher) the labels
The easiest way to break your sugar addiction is to know what you really consume. Even a seemingly healthy and even organic stamped product can hold a huge amount of added sugar. For this, nothing beats reading the labels of the products you buy. One thing to know: the shorter the list of ingredients, the easier it's to flush out the hidden sugars. The ingredients are also listed according to their content in the product: if the word "sugar" or its derivatives (maltose, lactose, dextrose, fructose, sucrose, galactose) appears before "eggs" or "flour", it's a bad sign.Also learn to decipher the labels: as with the famous words ending in -ose, sugar can be in the form of syrup (corn, cane, rice, malt...), fruit juice (often concentrated), but also under the names "malt extract", "modified starch", "dextrin", "dextran", "maltodextrin", "diastase" and "diastatic malt". It suddenly gives you less desire, huh?
2. Limit artificial sweeteners
Much of the pleasure of stopping the sugar is also to let our taste buds again have the pleasure of feeling the true taste of food. And that means leaving aside sweeteners for a while, including Stevia. Their powerfully sweet taste prevents us from becoming accustomed to eating sweets. However, stopping the sugar is a virtuous circle: it's only by eating less sweet (so it includes the "fake" sugar) that we will really enjoy eating foods low in sugars.3. Add more good fats
It has been a long time to be considered that eating fat is extremely bad for our health, making us fat and clogging our arteries. Fortunately, in recent years, it's clear that eating fat doesn't make us so flipper - hence, for example, the success of toasts to the lawyer. By the way, fat is a powerful ally to reduce sugar. Unlike the latter, which has no nutritional value for our body, fat gives us a sense of satiety and keeps our cells healthy. It's enough to privilege the good fats: for example, those found in fish such as salmon but also in olive oil and rapeseed, seeds and dried fruits. On the other hand, we skip fast foods, stuffed with bad fats and fast sugars.4. Eat fermented foods
Not only do fermented foods help balance intestinal flora with probiotic bacteria, which helps reduce the need for sugar in the long run, but the tangy flavor reactivates our taste buds to instantly eliminate cravings. So we say yes to natural yogurt, cheese, and cream, but also to pickles, sauerkraut... It's also quite possible to make your own fermented vegetables: we tell you how to do here.5. Think in terms of gain rather than deprivation
Instead of saying "I can't take dessert," fill your plate with vegetables and legumes, high in fiber and good fat. Thus, you will be satisfied even before telling you that you would take a caramel cream.In general, not to feel aggrieved and see the onset of an insidious feeling of frustration, it's better to leave out the negative considerations of style "Oh, I'll never be able to nibble madeleine snacks or chocolate square in front of the evening movie", but rather think of original ways to consume more protein, fat and fiber at each meal. Tasting of fruit juice, nibbling a handful of almonds in case of craving,... There are plenty of delicious ways to be satiated without feeling frustrated by the lack of sugar.
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