Sugar Addiction. Food Addiction. The Highly Addictive Nature that is Sugar

We often talk about Carnivore being a healing diet in terms of physical health. But a meat-based diet has a huge healing component for food addiction. I focus on holistic health with Carnivore because a large piece of working with my clients is focused on healing their relationships with foods, among other lifestyle changes. Once we heal our physical ailments and are no longer physically addicted to sugar, we need to begin working on the harder part — the part where we turn to sugar for emotional needs.

Oftentimes we lean on sugar and carb-rich foods for comfort, for celebrations and for everything in between. Oftentimes when we are young, we are taught to seek comfort with carbs. We go to the dentist and are comforted at the end of the session for being brave with a piece of candy. When we are sad, we are taught to comfort with ice cream. We celebrate birthdays with heaps of sugar. At work, admins desks often have candy jars to take a break from stress and get our fill of sugar. The examples are endless.

A part of my book and a big part of my carnivore program will focus on healing our relationships with foods and then finding better ways to cope. What are the tools we need to stop turning to food as our support and comfort? There is no one-size answer because we are all wired differently and our joys, our triggers and everything else is very bioindividual. We must understand how we function to truly get rid of any damaging addictions. We must learn to make stronger wirings and CHOOSE to ignore the hardwiring to turn to sugar.

If you’ve ever been to drug addiction or alcohol addiction support group, they don’t talk hours about alcohol or the coveted addiction. They teach you coping skills and tools to lean on something else other than the addictive substance. In school, we aren’t taught to handle and deal with our emotions properly. Males are often shunned for crying and are taught to pretty much bottle their emotions. Females are comforted to the point that they overthink situations and let the focus of life be on every small event to be a big deal. There is a grey area that can be the sweet spot for dealing with emotions and moving on. Too little can make us turn to something else for comfort and release. Too much…