Often times a sugar craving is simply a misinterpreted cry out for nourishment. You may be thinking that you want sugar, but your body is actually asking you for something quite different. When cutting out sugar from your diet, the first week can be the most intense as you go into withdrawal and sugar cravings peak.
This is because sugar can be more addictive than cocaine!

Studies have shown that sugar lights up the pleasure and reward centres of the brain like a disco ball! It’s shown be more rewarding than the effects of cocaine.

“Studies suggest that every time we eat sweets we are reinforcing those neuropathways, causing the brain to become increasingly hardwired to crave sugar, building up a tolerance like any other drug,”
– Cassie Bjork, R.D., L.D., founder of Healthy Simple Life

Sugar cravings can easily become more than just an addiction to your sweet tooth but a biological eating disorder fuelled by hormones and neurotransmitters, and in some cases a symptom of a deeper problem…
… a complete pathogenic fungal overgrowth within the body!
Thats right, there’s a fungus that grows inside of your body and thrives off the sugar in your diet. When gone long enough unnoticed it can take over your body and wreak havoc on your health masquerading itself as other conditions such as chronic yeast and bladder infections, eczema, metabolic disorders, even depression.

I’ve been working with Candida Cleanser as their in-house health coach and detox doula since 2013, and I’ve seen people eliminate their life long sugar cravings in a blink of an eye as soon as their candida was under control!
Check out the Success Stories page to read all about it.

Let’s review some of the reason’s why you could be craving sugar.

1. Dehydration
   Often times when your body is on the verge of dehydration a sugar craving will manifest. When your body runs low on water, you become weak, tired, and foggy brained and stimulating foods like sugar are a quick fix, like tossing gasoline on a fire. Rather than going for sugar, try drinking a big glass of water and waiting a few minutes to see what happens.
2. Lack of Nutrients
   If your body isn’t getting enough nutrients from your diet it will continue to send out signals of hunger asking you for nutrients. It’s quite common for people with parasite and fungal infections to be nutrient deficient for a number of reason; they aren’t producing enough stomach acid or pancreatic enzymes to actually digest and absorb their food, the pathogens are eating the nutrients themselves. In this case supplementation to help with digestion is helpful.
   Continue to this article learn more about how to do to boost and balance digestive juices
3. Sleep Deprivation
   When you deprive your body of sleep, rest, and relaxation you are basically running on fumes and your body will start to crave fuel in the form of sugar. Simple carbohydrates like refined sugars are rapidly broken down and quickly enter your bloodstream for a burst of an energy. However, the spike in blood sugar will only leave you energized for a brief moment before your sugar levels drop again and yet another craving sets in.
4. Hormonal
   Women tend to experience hormonal sugar cravings more than men as their hormones differ from day to day. The fluctuating testosterone, estrogen and progesterone levels can cause unique food cravings amongst the common sugar craving. This is a good time to turn to whole foods that are naturally sweet such as root vegetables, fresh fruits, and berries.
5. Candida Overgrowth
   Candida yeast and fungus feeds on the excess sugar in your diet. When fungal candida dominates your gut, it releases powerful biochemicals that (strongly) influence your food choices leaving you susceptible to intense sugar cravings. If you have non-stop intense sugar or alcohol cravings one of the best thing to do is the Candida Cleanser, repopulate your gut with probiotics, and eat plenty of fermented foods to restore the proper equilibrium in your micro-biome.
6. Emotional
   Often times we turn to food and sugar, not because we are hungry, but because we are in an emotional state that we find uncomfortable or unpleasant. We may feel anxious, stressed out, be grieving, or simply feeling bored. Rather than dealing with the underlying emotional issue, we use food to escape. Often we use food to distract ourselves, comfort ourselves, and suppress the root of the problem.
   Next time you are faced with a sugar craving, become aware of your emotional state. Are you actually needing the sugar, or are you simply distracting yourself from something uncomfortable, something deeper?

Addictions of any kind, be it food, sugar or drug, are often rooted in a childhood trauma of abuse: physical, emotional or sexual. On this healing journey it’s important to consider these deeper driving factors of what can be causing an addiction, to fully understand the depth and complexity of it, so that you may have patience and compassion for yourself as intense emotions can arise while you are cleansing and healing.