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One of the toughest times to stick to your diet is late at night. You’ve had dinner and now you’re body is starting to shut down for the night. What you may mistake as hunger is actually your body craving energy – and the best way for it to recharge is through sleep.

Eating too late at night can actually make it difficult to get a good night’s rest. Late night eating can cause indigestion, heartburn strange dreams, and too much food can even cause you just to feel too uncomfortable to rest well.

Food is designed to give you energy, so when you’re feeling drained you may naturally start to crave a boost from food. However, the best thing you can do is give your body the rest it really needs at the end of the day. Eating and getting a quick burst of energy makes sleeping more difficult.

Late at night your body doesn’t really need calories. It needs to focus its efforts on restoring the body from the day rather than digesting snacky foods. And the choices that most people make at night aren’t usually the best.

You may find yourself going for that last bowl of ice cream, a few chips, cookies, candy, or any number of foods that shouldn’t make the bulk of your diet. And you’ll be adding unnecessary calories to your day.

Make a goal to stop eating at least three hours before you go to bed. This gives your digestive system a chance to take a break while you sleep. You’ll eliminate the extra calories that evening snacking can cause.

You may also find that when you stop eating before bedtime you sleep more soundly and have fewer problems with heartburn. People who are dieting generally see better success when they don’t eat before bed.

After you finish dinner, you can clean up and then turn off the lights. Consider the kitchen closed at this point. Instead of eating a snack at the end of the evening, try drinking a glass of water.

Herbal tea is also a nice way to relax and unwind in the evening. Try a caffeine free herbal tea with stevia as a sweetener. This is a no calorie beverage that’s packed full of flavor. The warmth will also sooth you and helps your body prepare for sleep.

It can be a hard habit to break – especially if you’ve enjoyed nighttime snacking for a long period of time. But you’ll find that giving up late night snacking will help your diet to be much more successful.

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Paracelsus

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- Helen Hayes (at 73)

REPORT: "Sugar Detox Diet"

Now, cookies and cakes aren’t the only foods that contain sugar. It’s also present in canned goods, bread, milk, juices and more – and it can be deadly. If you suspect that your weight and health are being ruined by too much sugar, it might be time to consider a sugar detox diet.

Basic Principles of a Sugar Detox Diet

Cravings for sugar are stronger than for other types of foods – and there are good reasons why. Our tongues contain up to 5,000 taste buds and up to 25 receptors that tell us when something is bitter - but there is only one receptor for sugar.

That one receptor can differentiate between different types of sugar and causes certain responses in the body. The type of sweetness that comes from processed sugars causes a powerful outpouring of opiates (endorphins) and instantly makes us feel content and relaxed.

It’s easy to see how addictive sugar can become. The sugar detox diet is a sugar withdrawal plan that helps you stop sugar cravings cold turkey (without stress) and learn how to live a sugar-free life.

Breaking the addiction to sugar without the stress it usually causes is the ultimate goal of this diet plan. If you adhere to the plan, you’ll notice that your metabolism will heal almost immediately and other diseases - such as diabetes - will markedly improve.

The pros of the sugar detox plan are many. You’ll lose weight, improve digestive problems, counteract depression symptoms, lower your risk of cancer, thyroid disorders, chronic pain and much more.

The only cons of the sugar detox diet are in the learning and preparation processes. You need to take time to learn how sugar affects you and know which foods contain hidden sugars so you can avoid them.

Removing items in your kitchen pantry and refrigerator that contain harmful sugars and replacing them with fresh and organic items may take some time and getting used to, but the benefits of the sugar detox diet are so plentiful that you’ll soon be glad you did.

Who a Sugar Detox Diet Works Best For

Anyone can benefit from the sugar detox diet. Not only is sugar bad for all of us, but it’s also addictive and can cause many health and lifestyle problems.

If you have frequent cravings for sweets, bread, pasta and fruit juice and snack between meals, you may be living a sugar-dependent life.

An addiction to sugar may cause mood swings, low energy, sleeplessness and anxiety. You may also find it difficult to concentrate after a meal. Weight gain is another serious problem for those who crave sweets.

Obesity can be directly linked with the amount of sugar we consume and eliminating it from your diet will cause immediate weight loss that you can keep off.

When you effectively eliminate sugar from your diet, you’ll notice much improvement in many of the health problems you may have and begin to see definite weight loss.

Those who are suffering from severe health problems such as Metabolic Syndrome (insulin malfunction), hypoglycemia symptoms (low blood sugar), chronic pain, skin problems, hair loss and dental problems will also notice significant and positive differences by giving up sugar.

When you realize that some form of sugar is in everything we consume, it seems daunting to enter into the sugar detox diet plan. You have to spend some time getting to know what the good and bad types of sugars are and how they make your body react before you can choose food based on knowledge of the diet.

You’ll also need to know foods that contain hidden sugars – and they may be hidden where you would least expect it. The sugar detox diet is planned so that there are very little (if any) withdrawal symptoms, so you don’t have to worry about nervousness, anxiety or severe cravings.

Unfortunately, there are millions of Americans who suffer from high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and just feeling crummy. In fact, those problems have become the new normal. The sugar detox diet can turn your life around and help you feel good again.

How to Get Prepared for a Sugar Detox Diet

After you decide you’re going to detoxify yourself from the harmful effects of sugar, you should take some time to analyze your diet at the present time. Are you eating a great deal of foods with high sugar content?

While you’re analyzing the foods you now eat, be thinking about which food changes you could make that would help eliminate sugary snacks and sugar content in your main meals.

Identify where your sugar intake is coming from. Sugar is in so many foods that it’s imperative that you know where in your diet you can make changes for the better. For example, ketchup has a lot of sugar – so you can make the swap to low sugar or sugar-free ketchup.

It’s important when preparing to undertake the sugar detox diet for you to keep a food diary. A food diary can help you see where you might be overlooking a candy bar, soft drink or other snacks that you might mindlessly eat while dealing with a stressful day.

It’s best to jot the food down in the diary just after you eat it so you can plainly see where sugar might be creeping in to your day. The food diary should include details such as nutrients, spices and all ingredients.

Also, take note of what you drink – even water. Include how you’re feeling when you eat or snack. There may be a pattern in your habits. Also note your sleep patterns. See if your quality of sleep coincides with what you ate before bed and how hungry you are the next morning.

Activity patterns are good to note as well. See where your bursts of energy occur and where you have the best mental acuity. Before you’re ready to shop for food items you’ll need for the sugar detox diet, it’s important that you rid your kitchen of sugar traps such as sweets and other foods that may have hidden sugars.

When shopping for sugar-free foods, concentrate on purchasing high-quality ingredients and food such as meat, eggs and dairy. Vegetables should be a focal point of your food shopping list – and change your present carb intake to pasta, flour and rice that are whole grain.

Set reasonable and achievable goals for your sugar detox diet plan. It may look easy, but in the day-to-day hectic pace we live, it may be difficult to adhere to 24/7. Try to keep on track, but if you falter sometimes, don’t be too hard on yourself.

As you progress on the sugar detox diet, you’ll quickly realize that ingesting snacks or a meal containing high sugar content can make you feel sluggish. You’ll be happy to get back on track to feel good again.

Sample Meal Plan for a Sugar Detox Diet

There are many delicious recipes and foods available to help you reduce your sugar intake. Some are convenient and make great snacks and others take a bit more time to put together because they are natural and not processed.

One meal that you can have for breakfast, lunch or dinner is in the form of a smoothie (or juice). There are many ways to juice and create smoothies without adding sugar and some premixed smoothies containing sugar-free ingredients are available on the market today.

For smoothies, use fresh ingredients when possible. Tomato juice (sugar-free) is a good liquid to use with other vegetables such as cucumbers, peppers, onions and garlic. Fruits such as papaya, pears and kiwi contain good sugars and can be used to make delicious smoothies.

Choosing cheese on a sugar-free diet can be confusing. With some, it depends on the process used to make the cheese – such as using a culture that will consume the lactose.

Goat and sheep’s milk typically contain lower levels of lactose. Making a cheese omelet for breakfast and adding some avocado, spinach and some herbs such as chives or parsley is a sugar-free and healthy choice for your first meal of the day.

When you’re eliminating or reducing the amount of sugar in your diet, turn to comforting soups that contain carbohydrates that help your metabolism. Vegetable soup containing carrots, potatoes, celery, onions and whatever other vegetables you enjoy is a good choice for lunch or dinner.

Branch out from typical vegetable soups to creamy and delicious soups by using spinach and carrots. If you’re a bread junkie, you don’t have to do without it on the sugar detox diet.

Sugar-free and gluten-free breads are now readily available in your supermarket – or make your own. There’s nothing better than the smell of fresh-baked bread. Sugar-free crackers are also available and make a good substitute for creating sandwiches.

Snacks that are sugar-free can revive you when you experience afternoon slumps. Veggies are always good snacks and you can make great dips from sour cream, onion, garlic and other herbs and seasonings.

Dinner can be exciting when you create dishes that are both fillings, delightful to look at and sugar free. Lamb, chicken breasts and fish recipes that are sugar-free can be found online or in books.

You can even have dessert on your sugar-free diet. Fruit tarts using a sugar-free pastry and lactose-free milk and cream – plus berries you enjoy is a low-calorie and excellent way to end a meal.

Be creative on the sugar-free detox plan so you don’t get bored. By following some general rules about which food items to use and which to avoid, you can create some dishes that will delight your entire family.

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