Greetings, greetings, greetings.
It's Eric Bakker, New Zealand.
Author of Candida Crusher.
Thanks for tuning into my video today.
Today, I'm going to talk about the seven best ways to stop craving sugar and carbs.
This is going to be quite a useful video for you, especially if you're a person who wants
to lose a bit of weight, maybe my age, sort of young guy, put on a little bit of weight,
or young girl, who wants to lose a little bit of weight.
Or you could be one of these millennials.
You could be a person, 20s, 30s, starting to get a job, got a good income, getting a
bit complacent, not exercising enough, working your tail off, doing maybe IT work or computer
work and not eating properly, not exercising enough.
You could be tired, not sleeping properly, have a mood disorder.
Either way, you might just be a person who wants to feel amazing and look amazing.
Well, this is a key video because we're going to show you some ways on how you can stop
craving crap in your diet.
There's so much crap out there.
I had a good time in the States.
I just came back with my wife.
We were over there for about 12 days on a conference.
We spent a bit of time with some friends in Los Angeles and we traveled to Las Vegas.
I couldn't believe how much crap people eat when I saw it.
Uber drivers drinking big cans of Coke and stuff and people drinking energy drinks.
So much alcohol consumption; it's just unreal.
Let's get into it.
Let's talk about some of the ways on how to control what you eat.
Get enough sleep.
Number one.
You need to get enough sleep.
I'm a baby boomer, but many younger people like my kids � they're not kids.
My daughter's 23.
Younger people today just don't get enough sleep.
When I was that age, we had no distractions.
No Google.
No Facebook.
Nothing like that.
Google came in what '98.
But before that, there wasn't really any internet.
We relied on video cassette recorders maybe to watch stuff.
There was no Netflix.
There were no cell phones.
People got to sleep a lot earlier.
Young people today just don't get enough sleep.
Poor sleeping habits lead to poor eating habits.
Poor sleeping habits mean you're going to get tired.
And when you get tired, what are you going grab for?
Something with sugar in it.
Something with caffeine in it to push you up.
Poor sleep leads to fatigue, stress.
That's going to drive the demand for sugar to give you a boost or caffeine.
Enough sleep gives you more energy and you feel more rested.
You feel way better.
That's habit number one.
If you can't get enough sleep or you're not prepared to, stop the video now and then try
that before you come to watch the rest of the video.
That's number one.
Number two.
You need to eat breakfast.
It's not mandatory, but you really want to eat something in the morning before lunch
time.
A good protein meal.
It could be eggs.
It could be a good cereal, but you need to have some type of a protein load in the morning.
It's going to set yourself up.
It's going to really help your metabolism cope with peaks and troughs in energy through
the day.
A good breakfast in the morning is a great starting point for really good energy and
it will also stop you wanting Coke or a muffin or fries or crap like that during the day.
Three good meals a day make a big difference toward craving sugar, especially if you eat
quality healthy fresh foods.
Number three.
Don't fight hunger.
If you're hungry, it's good to be a little bit hungry here or there.
When people feel a little bit hungry, "Oh, I'm hungry.
I'm hungry.
I've got to eat something."
They panic.
Especially people with anxiety.
They straight away want something because they think that it's bad to be a little bit
hungry.
You guys have got no idea what it means to be hungry.
I mean truly hungry.
Hungry to the point where you'd eat a pair of socks.
Real hunger is seriously bad and it's cruel and many people die of starvation around the
world.
I can assure you guys.
You're not dying of starvation.
Don't fight hunger.
If you're a little bit hungry, let it be.
These funny churning sounds in your gut often mean that the digestion is working really
well.
I read some interesting stuff that I found and it's really cool.
Eating and chewing 10 to 30 times.
That's not why I'm not a big fan of smoothies with lots of fruit and veggies in them because
you're not chewing anything.
And poor chewing leads to poor pooing.
Swallowing four to eight seconds, churning food two to four hours in the gut, so you
could've eaten a meal and it's churning away after three or four hours and "I'm hungry.
My stomach's making a noise."
Of course it is.
It's digesting food.
Some people misinterpret that for hunger and they put more food in the gut on top of the
food they've got in their tummy.
It's like a cement mixer mixing water and cement and it's making a noise and you're
trying to throw more in.
You're going to get overload.
Don't do it.
It takes three to five hours to absorb this into the body.
The body's going to extract what it needs from the food it's churned up and then you've
got compaction, so you're going to waste product development.
The body extracts everything it wants out of that food.
It starts moving down to the lower part of the bowel.
It's compacting the wastes and it's full of bacteria.
Then it can take several days for the compaction to take place.
But if you're eating a lot of fiber, plenty of water, you're going to feel a lot better
and move it out pretty quick and then elimination.
Hours and hours of time.
During that period of one meal being digested, be careful.
Think about it.
You must have seen some of those videos on YouTube about big snakes devouring animals.
Do you watch stuff like that or do you just watch crazy cat videos?
Go and look at a YouTube video of an anaconda devouring an animal.
A big snake in the Amazon.
It's not going to eat four or five months after that because it's going to devour that
animal and digest it slowly and eliminate it.
It's not going to be eating an antelope one day and a crocodile the next and the monkey
the next.
It's not going to do that.
It's going to eat one big thing and then digest it, absorb it, and eliminate it.
I'm not suggesting that you have 25 happy meals at McDonald's and then don't eat for
six months.
The point I'm making is, eat a meal and then take your time.
Wait for it to digest before you throw more food on top.
And if you feel a little bit of hunger during the time when it's digesting, don't misinterpret
that for hunger because it's not.
Eat meals regularly.
Point number four.
Try to eat regularly.
You don't have to look at your wristwatch and say, "It's 12:06.
I'm going to eat now."
You don't have to do that.
But you will feel little drops during the day when your blood sugar is dropping.
When you're getting a little bit more tired and you eat some food and you pick up, so
be aware of that tiny little bit of tiredness and that pickup after food and that will give
you an indication of when you should be eating.
Give yourself a good one hour window roughly each day for when you normally would eat,
so between 12 to 1 and between 5 to 7 p.m. Try to eat regular meals at regular times.
Number five.
Make crap difficult to get.
When you go shopping next and you're going to buy the stuff that you get like toilet
paper, tissues.
Those are the only two things you should buy from the shop anyway, or soap.
The rest is all crap.
But if you go shopping, don't grab stuff like Coca-Cola or fries or whatever, chips, chocolate
bars.
If you've got stuff in the home, you're going to eat it.
If it's difficult to get, it's much less likely that you're going to snack on crappy foods.
Make good decisions when you go shopping.
Not impulse decisions.
For that reason, they always say you should go shopping when you're' had a meal because
you're less likely to buy and eat on impulse.
Healthy alternatives.
We've talked a lot about this in previous videos.
Making good choices when you eat and not making bad choices.
Eating fruit for snacks, for example, away from meals is good.
Green apples, berries, avocados.
When your digestion is really good like me, you can have a wide variety of fruits.
I eat a lot of different fruits.
I think that's about it.
Eat a variety of foods.
Eat a balanced amount of food.
Plenty of proteins.
Plenty of fats in your diet.
You can use fats for cooking.
You can put fats on salad or vegetables.
Good protein choices.
My favorites are salmon.
The salmon in New Zealand is so nice.
I tried the salmon in Los Angeles.
I just wasn't really impressed with it.
It was really bland.
I think you need that cold water, especially, to get really good flavor in fish and it makes
a bit of difference.
Fish around the tropics is half baked.
The water's so hot.
The fish is probably half cooked by the time you eat it anyway.
Warmer water doesn't tend to make fish taste very good.
But I had some really nice organic chicken when I was in Los Angeles, so you can get
good quality proteins no matter where you are.
And fats, of course, avocados, coconut oil, butter.
There are many different proteins with fat in them like lamb.
Organic lamb is going to have a good fat in it.
They're quite good things to eat.
Nuts will give you some fats as well.
You need a variety of these foods in your diet at regular times.
You don't need special diets to maintain good health.
You need common sense.
Basic foods.
Lots of sleep.
Plenty of water and get rid of people in your life that annoy you.
Those things are going to go a long way to keeping you up.
There's a couple of tips for you on how to control the craving for carbs and sugars.
If you can control that in your life, you can control a lot.
I hope this was some good information for you.
Take care.