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Is Fasting an Effective Way to Break Sugar Addiction?
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Mar 21, 2025
Intermittent fasting is one of the most effective ways to reduce sugar addiction. The less sugar you consume, the fewer cravings your body will have over time. Pairing intermittent fasting with a keto or low-carb diet can help you cut sugar completely, making it easier to break free from cravings. Listen now to learn how fasting can support your health, and click here to read more: Can Fasting Help With Sugar Addiction? (https://reluctantlowcarblife.com/can-fasting-help-with-sugar-addiction/) . #ReluctantLowCarbLife #IntermittentFasting #SugarAddiction #LowCarbLiving #KetoForHealth #HealthyEating #WellnessTips #BreakSugarCravings Support the show (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2029615/support)
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hi this is Anita from The Reluctant low
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carb life today we're going to talk a
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little bit about fasting or in
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particular intermittent
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fasting and whether or not it can help
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you with your sugar addiction yeah the
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answer to that is really yes I mean
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anytime you can do anything to cut out
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sugar from your diet will help you with
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your sugar
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addiction intermittent fasting certainly
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can help you with your sugar
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addiction it has been found to be one of
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the most effective ways to help you
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eliminate sugar Cravings while at the
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same time being able to shed unwanted
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pounds but like with anything else when
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you do intermittent fasting if you you
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know you know Gorge yourself during the
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time when you're eating and you you know
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eat a whole bunch of food it's not going
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to help so in other words you still have
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to have controlled eating there's many
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different types of ways to fast but
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we're going to talk about some of those
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um some of the different ways one of
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them is called the 168 which means that
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you basically fast for 16 hours a day
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you don't eat anything and then for
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eight hours you eat so in other words
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You' eat about like maybe a lunch and
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dinner and then you would uh fast for
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the rest of the time the other way that
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some people recommend is 52 which means
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that you eat regularly for 5 days then
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for two days you eat maybe 5 00 calorie
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meals so you're eating very light on two
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days and the rest of the days you're
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eating pretty much normal yeah these are
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the basically the two fasting U methods
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that most people use but still again the
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trick with this if you're looking at
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this for your sugar addiction is to
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really not be eating sugar during the
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time when you're eating and the reason
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is is because it can take anywhere from
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8 to 12 hours to burn sugar stored in
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your body most people never deplete the
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sugar that's in their bodies you know
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during a typical day of eating so that's
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one reason why fasting is so good that
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fasting helps you to be able to deplete
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those sugars out of your body what's
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really interesting about fasting is that
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fasting is really not something new um
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many religions have times where they
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fast it's it's been something which has
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been done for for centuries many many
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churches have fasting uh you know so
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fasting is really not a new phenomena
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for health and fasting is considered to
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be healthy for your health that
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basically you know you spend some time
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you you cut the food out your body and
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it helps to sort of like cleanse your
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body and to clean your body so it only
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makes sense that if you're looking to
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get rid of a sugar addiction that one
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way you can really do this is through
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your intermittent fasting that you can
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basically stop eating sugar and and
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start fasting During certain times of
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the day and then it will help you to be
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able to get get the sugar that's stored
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in your body to get it out of your body
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and as the sugar gets out of your body
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it should be able to help your Cravings
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I want to say something here because a
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lot of times people think well there's
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got to be like a cure all for my sugar
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addiction and there's really not like if
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you're addicted to Sugar like I know I'm
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addicted to Sugar you're going to deal
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with that for the rest of your life just
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like an alcoholic might deal with
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addiction to alcohol you need to learn
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to find a way to be able to control that
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sugar addiction so so that you can be
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able to go without sugar that's really
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becomes the main part and the focus of
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this of getting the sugar addiction out
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we as Americans and in the western world
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eat way too much sugar we tend to you
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know have like five times or six times
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more sugar than what our bodies need
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that's because there's so much sugar in
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our Foods today that's also why we
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Advocate on the keto and low carb
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lifestyle that you also not not only do
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things like cut sugar out of your diet
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but and you also if you want to have
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sugar go to Natural types of sugar like
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monk fruit sugar is one of our favorites
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and you can still get the sweetness of
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the taste and get you know be able to
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still have some of your you know your
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favorite treats without the sugar in it
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but also at the same time that you also
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you know eat whole and healthy foods if
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you eat protein and eat healthy foods
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then you won't be craving sugar and as
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much as you normally do if you'd like to
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read more about our blog we'll put a
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description uh below put a link below
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for our blog that talks about this in
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our description below so that you'll be
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able to click on and be able to look at
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it we appreciate you being part of our
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community we know that we are going now
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into the holiday season and you know
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this is where sugars it's hard to get
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rid of sugar Sugar's everywhere so that
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we hope that you will try to get sugar
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out of your diet as much as possible
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thank you so so much for listening and
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we appreciate you we'd like to thank our
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team especially Rico who helps put this
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podcast together we appreciate our team
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and we appreciate all of you who are our
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listeners
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