we have these ideas about what is normal and then we repeat them to ourselves and of course
and because they're absolute they paint us into a corner where the only option that we really see
is to keep engaging in bad behavior obviously if i have a natural sweet tooth i have to
feed it right or maybe we'll find someone to save us from ourselves because obviously i can't solve
it myself if i have an addictive personality and my favorite that work is just so much
more important than my health that i'm not going to be able to do anything about my
lack of time to cook and inability to take care of myself until i retire but then then i'll get
my health and my weight under control wellness worry the first thing i want you to acknowledge
is that none of this is true the idea that you have a natural sweet tooth and so therefore
must eat sweets well depending on what part of the world you were born in your
culture determines what flavors that you chase there are some cultures that
the flavors that they're chasing are more savory even if there might be carb in the food so
sweet tooth that depends on where you live the second thing i want you to think about is
that most of us who have children have had the experience where for we give that child their
first taste of sweet it's usually some kind of fruit and the reaction on the child's face is not
pleasant and they follow through by spitting the food out that we just put in their mouth children
don't naturally like sweet they learn to like sweet because we keep putting that sweet thing
back in their mouth back in their mouth back until they get used to it we give children candies and
and fun foods because we think that that's what they're supposed to eat
but that's learned behavior and the third thing i want you to think about is an example from my
life i loved chocolate i chased chocolate chocolate was a daily occurrence in my life
i would have agreed that i have a natural sweet tooth back in the day but after four years of not
eating sweet things when i taste something that's the slightest bit sweet i have an adverse reaction
and it's shocking to me how much i dislike sweet today so why do we believe that we have
a natural desire and inclination towards sweet because we've been programmed to have sweet
from a very very young age it's not just the sweet things that we give our children from a young age
treats are marketed as only normal for us to have high carb foods like oatmeal and cereals
are marketed as if they're healthy things for us to have for breakfast fruit is marketed as
nature's candy and so therefore it's good for us to eat because it's from nature but none of this
is true it's not natural for humans to chase sweet it takes time for our children to get used
to eating it and they only get used to it because we keep giving it to them because somehow we've
been led to believe that they need this fruit to be healthy and then they need these fun foods
to be happy this is why when our young people achieve a goal we give them a chocolate bar when
our young people have a loss a problem a situation that's making them upset we'll give them a cookie
when our young people want our time and attention and we're too busy we will give them ice cream and
send them on their way and just to be sure that we're properly addicted to these high carb treats
we are encouraged to eat high carb meals with rice potatoes pasta as are side dishes unless
you come from the Caribbean where rice potatoes and pasta is the main portion of the meal
what is natural is that we are influenced by each other if you want to be a good influence on your
children and the people that you love start by getting back to your roots eat a diet that is
appropriate to your body and to do that you're very likely going to need to get past the sugar
addiction that you're likely living i have a video right here that's going to help you to do that
and the great part is that when you eat for your health you get mental clarity you decrease your
chances for dementia you aren't chasing high carb garbage foods anymore which actually means that
you can go a few hours without being hungry and needing to go back to the kitchen and of course
alongside of healing your metabolic internal damage you're going to regulate your weight
all of this by allowing yourself to understand that you actually get to decide what you're going
to eat rather than letting influencers and food companies decide for you let's talk about how you
can end your carb addiction click the video on the screen and i'm going to join you over there