Hi! Thanks a lot everyone for insight and advices!
@Zulu
I don't think I can't stop the positive emotional trigger yet. I am rushing sugar food under those two specific circumstances:
1. boredom/problems I don't to think about so I replaced them with chocolate. I am trying to get rid of negative here.
2. when there's nothing to eat in the morning because fridge is empty or because i am too lazy to cook something I rush the baker store for sweetness.
I need to work on a much deeper level. That's why I was looking for the repulsive association experience. But I know it can only be a short cut in my case or at best a support.
I am going to need to associate number 1 with something else like playing the guitar or singing. Number 2 is pure laziness.
@Lotus
The schema about processed food is really, really nice! Simple, direct, efficient. I used to drink some v8 (vegetable juice) and was thinking about dropping that.. I wondered how there could be so many water in it (it's written on the can that 200g of vegetables were used to produce 200ml of v8.. never really got that equation since v8 is really liquid!). I don't drink soda or fruit juices but this equation can easily adapt to anything I eat! I believe this one can help me to put a picture on what I am eating.
You did a wonderful job explaining the whole glycemic index and insulin connection! I was aware of it but although I intellectually am aware more or less of what is happening it isn't scaring me that much. When I am preparing meal I think about it and do accordingly but when I feel the urge to eat chocolate it's all gone and seen as a something else (see previous answer). Regarding the atkins diet, have you heard about montignac? There are some differences though but the whole montignac diet is based on the glycemic and insulin relation.
I am going to try a 7 days or 31 days sugar free plan. See if there's something about body addiction (or relief ^^) or if i need to work the psychological side of it (as Zulu mentioned).
Bone char?! Now that is what I was looking for! I found an article that deals with sugar business history (From Indian company to French studies in Sugar cane under Napoleon and last century England. Let's just say this business is a bloody one) and many others about how industrials have heavily augmented refined sugar proportions in processed food last 25 years. Sugar conspiracy? I don't know but it's definitely a drug :/
Concerning wheat and white flour well.. living in Europe I am not sure we are talking about the same bread. I used to eat the black and grey kind but not any more. Never ate white one. Tastes like sponge or fluffy stuff they put into armchairs and car seat.
I am definitely thinking about the corpses/fat experience! Maybe I should watch that fight club scene a hundredth time ; )
@Athena
Yep. Regarding the Jamie experience: at first it was really in the gut but I believe it is now an habit. The last sugar thing I deliberately eat are: chocolate (when I am not in a rush that is ^^), honey in yoghurt and hot chocolate milk. As I said, it's the urge I want to fight. I believe I might have to apply some cognitive method here.
@Thadroe
I will look into dates in a week. I think I will try a 7 days sugar free test and see what comes up.
@blindness
Are you still eating bread (grey/black)? And what is the cacao percentage in the black chocolate you eat? Mine is usually 56% and I know it means a lot of sugar is making up for the 44% left. I am not quite sure I am going to like 70% sugar as much as as like 56% one.. I might be dropping chocolate as well then :/ (and 90% cacao sugar tastes like cement)
@HolisticWellness.com
GReen smoothies? Is that fruits and vegetables mixed in a mixer (er well) and then some water is added and then it is drunk? I might try that I happen to find a mixer around the kitchen ^^ Should I look to what I am mixing or am I free to put whatever I want in it?
Okay! Thanks for all your replies and comments people! I am going to start the 7 days sugar free test and will post in a week to report what happened!
Here's what I am planning:
1. No chocolate, no honey in yoghurt, not hot milk w/ instant chocolate (even though the box reads vitamins were added).
2. Try to work on a cognitive level for the chocolate urge and replace it with fruits eating or another activity (guitar or singing)
3. Make sure the fridge is holding whatever is necessary for breakfast any day of the week so I don't rush the bakery store.
I'll be back in a week ^^
PS: please excuse my rude/weird English.. it's not my first language and I haven't practised in a long time
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