Dec 09
15
How to Break an Addiction to a Certain Food!
One of the most difficult things in life for a diabetic to come to grips with is that the foods you are eating regularly and love so much, are making you sick. There’s a sense of loss that most people feel when they find out that French Fries aren’t on their new diet and they most likely will never be.
Many new diabetics secretly wish for just one more week where they can eat whatever they want and whenever they want. But unfortunately, this is not going to happen.
So the best way to break this addiction is by using your senses. After all, you used your senses to develop the addiction to fast foods, processed foods and those luscious desserts; why not use your senses to get over it?
Let’s take the example of the average woman that loves chocolate. She dreams about chocolate. Whenever she’s in the presence of chocolate, she must indulge. At the store, she caresses the chocolate as she places it in the grocery cart. As she eats the chocolate, she allows it to melt in her mouth so that she can feel the chocolate every second of the experience. And all during the chocolate session she equates chocolate with love, happiness, and other good feelings.
Most chocolate treats aren’t on the diet for a diabetic simply because they are usually 60% sugar, which plays havoc with blood sugar levels.
The best way to break the addiction is to create strong negative associations of the addictive food. For example, if you read up on the topic of chocolate, you’ll discover that chocolate is often contaminated with insect particles. Playing on this disgusting fact, you can imagine taking a bite of chocolate and biting off a cockroach head! But don’t stop there! To make the association stick in your mind, you’ll need a lot more details. Add details such as what happens next. Drag someone else into the picture of what is happening inside your head, such as your best friend. How do they react? Sniff the chocolate and the bug inside the chocolate is now inside your nose!!! Make these pictures vivid. The worse you make them, the more effective they will be. You will not want to eat chocolate again!
The reason why you’re going through all this trouble, of course, is to break your addiction to the foods that are killing you!
Now all this just isn’t theory. I actually did this myself years ago when I discovered I was allergic to wheat and sugar. With my favorite cookie in hand, I began smelling the cookie to get the sense of smell involved in stopping my addiction. I was always lured by freshly made chocolate chip cookies. The longer I smelled that cookie, the worse the cookie started to smell. Soon I could smell rancid oils that were used in the baking process. It was totally disgusting but I just kept on smelling that “rotten” cookie. When I realized I didn’t want the cookie, the process was finished.
Now on a gut level, I was not in the least attracted to that cookie. Just the sight of a chocolate chip cookie made me remember the rotten cookie smelling experience. Those cookies would make me sick no longer! I never again ate cookies in mass quantity and in fact, years went by before I touched a cookie again. This once loved cookie was now associated with a rotten food concept. The process saved me from my bad habits and wrong ideas about what I wanted to eat. I was able to finally recover from my allergies after a period of abstinence.
You can do the same with foods that you want to eat but are not supposed to eat. Make a list of those “bad” foods and then start the process, one food at a time. You must gain control over your eating habits.
