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Sugar Cravings – an update

Short term success

In my last blog entry, I espoused the wonders of taking turmeric.

My sugar cravings had vanished. My appetite was good, but I did not feel the need to snack between meals.

I lost a significant amount of weight and became very enthusiastic.

I cut out anything sweet that I was taking, including supplements and kept on taking the Turmerix in my coffee.

It was going well, but then, I noticed that my sugar cravings were returning. What was more, I was starting to get hungry again and felt the need to snack.

Those bars of chocolates and packs of chips became harder and harder to resist.

I wondered if it was just something that naturally happened every so often, but the need did not seem to decrease. It only became worse.

I became quite dispirited and discouraged. I could not work out why it had stopped working.

I’d like to say that I was able to resist the occasional snack, chocolate, etc, but I’d be lying if I did. I figured that maybe it was just what my body needed, and if I indulged, the craving would go away.

Sadly, that was not the case.

The missing link

Then it occurred to me that maybe I should still be taking something I had cut out. Continue reading “Sugar Cravings – an update”

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Sugar cravings – Can Turmeric really help?

Adding Turmeric to my diet

Twice a year, we get the Mind, Body and Spirit festival here in Melbourne. Every so often, I like to go along because you never know what you might find.

I went this year in June (2018) and came across a product called Turmerix FAST. The FAST stands for Fast Acting Soluble Turmeric.

I’ve never come across this before as a health supplement, but I was sold by the enthusiasm of the young girl at the stall, so I bought a 350g tub for AUD80.00.

As someone who is always looking for cures and ways to improve my health, I’ve tried many different products. Few have actually delivered what they promised.

Turmeric also promises a range of health benefits such helping arthritis, helping cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. This may or may not be true. I suggest doing your own research on that. I do plan to start using it on my mother for her back pain, so I’ll see how that goes.

I’m only on my second week of taking this supplement but there was just one thing that has blown me away that I just had to write about.

I suffer from sugar cravings. It’s very hard for me to go a week without craving chocolate or junk food. If I stop eating it, the cravings might go, but, like an alcoholic, just a taste will get me hooked again.

For someone who watching his diet to lose weight, you can imagine this makes life challenging. What’s worse, chocolate will make me itchy which drives me crazy while I try and sleep. I know it’s bad for me, but all that is forgotten when I’m taking that sweet, sweet bite of that Cadbury bar that they make so well here in Australia.

Coffee

So the morning after I bought Turmerix FAST, I put a spoonful of it into my morning coffee and drank it. It was surprisingly palatable.

What was even more surprising was that I noticed, instantly, after drinking it, my sugar cravings went away. It wasn’t as though they were suppressed, I found that I no longer desired it. In fact, the very thought of having chocolate or sweets made me literally feel ill.

Image result for coffee flat whiteI also found that I wasn’t hungry. It was as though my appetite was normal. As long as I ate a sensible diet, I wouldn’t become hungry and binge on junk food.

I continued to add a heaped teaspoon in my coffee twice a day. By the third day, I found that my coffee was now tasting too sweet. Over time, I had increased my sugar from two teaspoons per cup to three and a half or more. Now there was too much sugar for me so I reduced it to one but it was still sweet. At the start of the second week, I just cut it out altogether. As Turmerix FAST is naturally sweetened, I found I didn’t need sugar at all. Continue reading “Sugar cravings – Can Turmeric really help?”