Early on I mentioned that I'd read somewhere that we often mistake thirst for hunger, so we often have a snack when all we really needed was some water. I now also believe that eating something with lots of sugar in it makes you want to eat more sugar. Until you cut down on sugar and start drinking more water it seems hard to believe, but I'm now a firm believer that that is true.
Most evenings, if I wasn't having a beer, I'd be snacking on some form of junk food. Usually chocolates or party mix lollies, sometimes cookies, just stuff that I didn't really need but now if I start to feel like I need something after dinner, I am more likely to start to feel thirsty than I am to feel hungry. Still, when I go and get my drink bottle out of the fridge I see things and think, yum that'd be nice, but I know that I don't really need it and if I drink some water the hunger part will go away and usually I'll just start to feel more thirsty.
The same goes for sugar. If you stop having it, you stop getting cravings for sweet things and when you eventually have something sweet, it can taste almost too sweet. Did you know that if you really deprive yourself of added sugar and sweet snacks for a week or two that light milk starts to taste sweet, I swear it does. It almost tasted like some sort of flavoured milkshake the other day when I just had a small glass of milk by itself.
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feeling thirsty again
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