Rebekah: Hey guys, it’s Bex here.
And I’m here with my good friend, Mike Perrine, from EverdayDetox.org and YouTube.com/EverydayDetox.
We just made a video about how it’s so hard to know what to eat instinctively and we got
into the subject of cravings and detox and addiction.
And I wanted to move ahead with another question that kind of relates to that.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: And I think that sugar detox is appropriate because who isn’t addicted to sugar now?
There’s like movies about it with major national new anchors, Katie Couric.
So the question that we got was specific but I think a lot of people can relate to it.
This woman was battling addiction and rid herself of that.
And now all of a sudden, this new addiction/craving to sugar has cropped up.
I don’t know where.
But that’s unique to her but so many of us are addicted to sugar.
What do we do?
How do we get un-addicted?
Mike: Well first of all, I’m not into sugar.
I’m into sugar quality.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: So, you want to start replacing refined sugars with more nutrient-dense sugars.
And that can go from things like you start out with your – white flours are actually
sugar, commercial sugar.
So the white flour, the refined white sugar, move toward maple syrup, coconut sugar, absolutely
delicious.
It’s more nutrient-dense.
It’s still sugar.
So if you have like extreme sugar problems and yeasts and things, that gets a little
tricky but if you’re just trying to get off of the refined brownies and all that kind
of stuff, start replacing with that and be prepared.
So you go to the health food store, you get that whole grain cookie, whatever, that’s
better than the stuff that they sell at the regular supermarket.
Stock your cabinets with it and …
Rebekah: There’s the baby.
You stay right there.
Don’t move.
Mike: I love how you have all these really pretty books and then you have Meat Is for
Pussies right on top.
Rebekah: You know - gotta represent.
John Joseph in the house.
Thank you.
Alright.
Let’s make this video.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: So, I’m at the point where I’m only craving – I think the highest quality
sugars, those are the ones that are coming from whole foods like fruit like bananas or
apples or grapes or whatever.
Those are my favorite fruits because they’re easy to find.
But that’s where I am.
But I haven’t answer to this question actually.
Mike: Yeah, let’s hear.
Rebekah: Can I?
And we discussed this earlier.
So people are coming to me and they ask me constantly, “How do I cure myself of my
sugar addiction or how do I detox from sugar?”
And I think that the real answer is that you have to just stop eating the sugar or stop
eating the thing that you’re addicted to.
And what people are looking for is a product or a thing that they can take that’s going
to somehow rid them of this craving or this addiction.
And that just doesn’t exist.
And if it does exist, it’s probably not good for you because you’re not really going
through the process of detoxing on a physical level and a soul level, which is important
to me.
Mike: Yeah.
Yeah, I agree a hundred percent.
You just – the only way to do it is to do it and you have to do it consistently.
The dabbling is a sabotage all the time.
Cheat days just cheat you of the results you’re trying to get.
Rebekah: Oh, that’s a tweetable.
Mike: Is that a tweet?
Rebekah: I want to tweet that.
Mike: Alcoholics that have a drink once in a while are alcoholics.
Rebekah: Right.
Mike: You know what I mean?
They don’t – you never really break the cycle.
You have to break that cycle.
And you do it, you can do it gradually because I’ve never met anyone that has really been
on a sugar-free diet for any extended period of time.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: Meaning no fruits, no dates, no – never met anybody that has actually accomplished
that.
Rebekah: And that’s – when you have to ask yourself what are your goals, because
my goal was to never be off of it completely.
It was to only have sugars that are serving me well and that eliminates refined sugars
so I can’t have those.
So over time with eliminating slowly because that’s a process that I prefer, I was able
to accomplish that.
So I don’t crave refined sugars.
In fact, when I have them, they hurt me.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: If I had soda, it’s bad news.
It’s not that it doesn’t taste good for that second but I know immediately that it
wasn’t a good choice.
So that’s my answer for you guys.
Just have to not do it.
And detox sucks.
And we’re going to talk about that in the next video.
The next video is going to be a whole bunch of questions and a lot of them are about easing
the symptoms or detox or what’s normal during detox.
Mike: There are tricks but we’ll get to that.
Rebekah: You don’t like any of the tricks.
Let’s be nice today.
Let’s say bye-bye?
Can you say bye-bye?
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