One of the biggest challenges of eating healthy is removing simple carbohydrates and sugars and empty-calorie snacks from our diet. Sweets and snacks, chips and pasta, crackers and pretzels, potatoes and rice, and soda pop and juices… are everywhere…

These foods are high-glycemic. That means they spike your blood sugar…only to see it plummet an hour or so later thus creating fluctuating blood sugars that lead to cravings and bingeing and no room for healthy choices.

Such cravings are not about will power. They are about metabolic imbalance that creates cravings for fast sugar and carbohydrate snacks.

The following are ways many people have successfully kicked that sugar habit and enjoyed good healthy food again.

Ideal Diet
The ideal diet emphasizes fresh raw vegetables, some fresh fruit and fish and poultry.

Breakfast – Include high protein foods…eggs, turkey sausages, Swiss oatmeal (rolled oats softened overnight in milk or plain yogurt and fresh fruit… blueberries, strawberries, etc and almonds) or one of the Shaklee Protein shakes – Energizing Soy Protein, Cinch shakes, Mealshakes.

Or Shaklee Cinch bars (10 grams of protein)

Fresh fruit (avoid high glycemic fruits such as pineapple, banana and grapes)

Lunch – a great place for a main dish salad.

Be sure to include lots of vegetables whether in salad or with a plate of fresh veggies, maybe with a dip.
Ideas for salads –try a variety of at least 6 different ingredients to create crunch, color, and flavor…lightly steamed green beans or asparagus, a variety of greens ( except no iceberg lettuce. . no nutritional value there) , sprouts, red cabbage, green cabbage , peas, shredded carrots, chopped broccoli, cauliflower, fresh white mushrooms, green onions, baby bok choi, spinach, etc

Add a little sweetness occasionally with dried cranberries or dried cherries, 1 fresh orange, rind removed and chopped, sliced apples, pears, grapes.

Add crunch with sliced almonds, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds…or Shaklee Fiber Plan Daily Crunch.

Add flavor with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh herbs (water cress, parsley, cilantro), pesto.

For protein …chopped, cooked chicken, turkey, tuna, Garbanzo beans, chopped hard-cooked eggs, etc

Cinch shakes
Mid afternoon snacks… Cinch bars, Cinch tea, vegetables and dip, fresh fruit, nuts, peanut butter fudge ( 1 cup organic peanut butter, 1 cup Energizing Soy Protein, 1/3 cup honey , ½ cup Fiber Plan Daily Crunch)
Dinner – avoid high glycemic starches like potatoes, pasta and rice, avoid fried foods …Include, LOTS of vegetables…fresh or lightly steamed, meat, poultry and fish

Beverages… Bestwater filtered water in a pitcher with cinnamon sticks, ginger root slices, or fresh mint for flavor

Evening snack – no popcorn (high glycemic carb) nuts, Cinch bars, veggies and dip, fruit,

Basic Supplements to stop cravings for sweets and carbohydrates

Vita Lea or Cinch 3-in-1 Boost

B-Complex (consider one with each meal)

Glucose Regulation Complex

Fiber Tabs or Fiber Crunch

Optiflora Probiotic (start with the capsule alone for 1 week before adding the Prebiotic)

Energizing Soy Protein or Cinch shakes

Detoxifying Get Clean non-toxic cleaning products

Shaklee Enfuselle and Minerelles skin care and cosmetics

Liver DTX, Shaklee Alfalfa Complex, Herb Lax gentle colon cleanser, Optiflora

Lagoni Health Associates June 07