How to kick a sugar addiction?

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Good afternoon, 66.1ers.

Was talking to someone on LinkedIn the other day.
Wants to kick a sugar addiction.
Addictions are tough buggers.
But here’s some stuff that might help?

1. Know your “Why”
Say you kicked the sugar addiction.
It’s 3 months from today.
Does your life look different?
Do you feel the same?
Look the same?
Are you the same weight?

Clothes fit the same?
Doctor still telling you you need to fix your diet?

2. Start small
If you’re on a “4 Twinkies per day” diet?
0 Twinkies is going to be tough.

Go by week.
Say your weekly Twinkie quota is currently 28.
Can you cut it to 26 this week?
24 next week?

3. Or…don’t!
Some people do better with “Cold Turkey”.
Go through your pantry.
If it has “sugar”, “corn syrup”, other kinds of “syrup”?
Chuck it.
Might lead to an interesting conversation with spouse/children/roommate types?

4. Replace, not Remove
Ever survived a breakup?
Did you miss them for a while after the breakup?
Did you miss them just a little less when you weren’t totally alone, though?
If it’s a Twinkie today, don’t make it nothing tomorrow.

Or you might go crawling back to your old, unhealthy relationship?

Twinkie -> apple (or something even more “sinful”, from Rule #5).

5. Make it harder

What if you made it a rule that, in your house, sugar was allowed 1x/week, but the indulgence had to be homemade?
Have a cookie, but you have to mix the dough and bake the cookies.
This is effective because it makes it harder to access the sugar. Means the stuff you do eat won’t have all the crazy preservatives that store-bought stuff will, and isn’t psycho-restrictive.

Have fun out there.

Marcus