I have been watching my weight nearly all my life. I love to bake and cook, as it was passed down from me from my great grandmother to my grandmother to my mother and then to me. Cooking and baking has just been a huge part of my family. So once I started my new lifestyle I know I had to make some sacrifices. Getting rid of all artificial sweeteners, even Splenda (it's a chemically made sweetener, who wants to eat chemicals??). I also have some secrets to keep my cravings at bay. Here are a few.
1. NEVER go grocery shopping hungry! Your eyes become bigger then your stomach and you start to salivate over everything you see. Before you go shopping, have an apple and some all natural peanut butter.
2. Shop in the outer perimeter of the store. Everything you need in your healthy lifestyle is located along the back walls. Produce, meats, dairy. Forget everything in the middle isles. It is ok to go in there for the other necessities like pasta or oatmeal or the healthy items. But the majority of the foods you will find on the outside.
3. Snack attack! Yup, this has happened to me before. That snack attack 2-3 hours after a meal, my blood sugar starts to drop. Make a baggie with a hand full of almonds or walnuts along with some unsweetened (meaning no sugar added) fruit like dates or apricots. This will keep the blood sugar level and prevent binging on the next meal.
4. Switch from Splenda or sugar to Stevia. Stevia is a natural sugar source from the plant itself, often called the sugarleaf plant. Its extract is 300x's greater then regular refined sugar. Since it comes from a plant it can be labeled as ''all-natural''. Look for the words Truvia and Purevia when it comes to finding an all natural sweetener.
5. Switch from white rice to brown rice or you can also use Quinoa (pronounced keen-waa) in recipes that ask for a flour base. Quinoa is a very healthy grain-like food, but it is actually a seed and contains 9 essential amino acids therefore making it a complete protein.
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