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febflake · 11-12-2006, 08:22 PM

Hi!
I am more than often tempted by sugar (bread, snacks, soda, chocolate, etc. ). I can feel the negative effects it has on me (short energy boost following by dizziness and unnatural hunger for more sugar or even normal food, emptiness feeling) and am very aware of unhealthy effects on an nutritionist level.
Some months ago i saw Jamie-the-famous-English-cook on TV. He was showing young students what nuggets were made of (bones, meat, skins, additional meat powder all mixed in a mixer) and the experience had a strong impact on the kids. And on me as well. It was really a visual one. I am not a vegan but i only eat meat once a week or two. Until then I had a strong appetite for this this (meaty snacks). It's been 6 months now and i can't even touch the package when i walk by the shelves in the store.
As some of you may know, bread and some food derived from cereals are made of Gluten. Which is something the body has a hard time to integrate (and get rid of). As a matter of fact it was used to glue paper (painted paper?) on the walls at the beginning of the century. Yep. Gluten=glue -> in your bread. Combined with the fact that bread is made of glycid (which is sugar; and depending on the bread you eat it may be a lot of sugar). This was a revelation that helped me get rid of bread. And all went well. No more bread, no more sugar side-effect as well after eating (was kind of disturbing to feel bread effects on my body.. who would have guess?).
So now here's my point. I am looking for a strong experience to get rid of sugar envy. An experience like the one with meat and Jamie (the mixer) and the one with Gluten+sugar for the bread. Has anyone read or seen anything that would be so shocking it would trigger some kind of disgusting effects on me? (like some alcoholics that can't stand the view of a bottle once they have experienced an ethylic coma)
Thanks for reading! Hope you see what I am talking about and can help me!

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febflake Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 44	How to trigger an experience to get rid of sugar addiction? Hi! I am more than often tempted by sugar (bread, snacks, soda, chocolate, etc. ). I can feel the negative effects it has on me (short energy boost following by dizziness and unnatural hunger for more sugar or even normal food, emptiness feeling) and am very aware of unhealthy effects on an nutritionist level. Some months ago i saw Jamie-the-famous-English-cook on TV. He was showing young students what nuggets were made of (bones, meat, skins, additional meat powder all mixed in a mixer) and the experience had a strong impact on the kids. And on me as well. It was really a visual one. I am not a vegan but i only eat meat once a week or two. Until then I had a strong appetite for this this (meaty snacks). It's been 6 months now and i can't even touch the package when i walk by the shelves in the store. As some of you may know, bread and some food derived from cereals are made of Gluten. Which is something the body has a hard time to integrate (and get rid of). As a matter of fact it was used to glue paper (painted paper?) on the walls at the beginning of the century. Yep. Gluten=glue -> in your bread. Combined with the fact that bread is made of glycid (which is sugar; and depending on the bread you eat it may be a lot of sugar). This was a revelation that helped me get rid of bread. And all went well. No more bread, no more sugar side-effect as well after eating (was kind of disturbing to feel bread effects on my body.. who would have guess?). So now here's my point. I am looking for a strong experience to get rid of sugar envy. An experience like the one with meat and Jamie (the mixer) and the one with Gluten+sugar for the bread. Has anyone read or seen anything that would be so shocking it would trigger some kind of disgusting effects on me? (like some alcoholics that can't stand the view of a bottle once they have experienced an ethylic coma) Thanks for reading! Hope you see what I am talking about and can help me! Last edited by febflake; 11-12-2006 at 08:26 PM.